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Both do U.S. PEO properly. Here’s what happens as you grow.
Feature
Full-service U.S. PEO (co-employment, W-2s, benefits, compliance)
Enterprise benefits through a national-carrier master plan
Move to your own EIN without leaving the platform (PEO → ASO)
Built for 1 to 1,000+ employees
Global payroll and EOR (~150 countries)
International contractor management
Vendor payments, bill pay, and multi-currency treasury
Payroll balances earn cash rewards
Keep your existing ATS and HRIS as you scale
Pricing model
The Ceiling
Justworks earns its reputation. For a small U.S. company, it’s one of the cleanest PEO experiences on the market — and its own partner materials scope it honestly: built to support companies up to around 100 employees. The problem isn’t what Justworks does. It’s what happens the day you grow past it.
Graduating off a PEO is one of the most disruptive events in a company’s operational life. You leave the master benefits policy — a carrier change for every employee at once. You replatform payroll. You migrate years of records. And you do all of it precisely when the company is busiest, because growth is what triggered it. Niural is built so that day never comes: the same platform runs a ten-person PEO and a thousand-person global operation, and scaling means adding services, not switching systems.
The clearest example is the EIN. Every growing company eventually wants payroll back under its own tax ID. On Justworks, that’s the exit — their non-PEO tier is payroll software, not an administrative service, so leaving co-employment means leaving the platform in every way that matters. On Niural, PEO to ASO is a designed transition: the W-2 flips from Niural’s name to yours, and your benefits infrastructure, your data, and your team’s muscle memory all stay put.
Grow your team. Not your stack.
In practice
On Niural, outgrowing your PEO is a settings-level transition, not a migration project. Same platform, same data, your EIN when you’re ready for it.
In practice
On Niural, going global is an expansion, not a replatforming decision. The system you started with at ten U.S. employees is the system that runs your hundredth hire abroad.
The Border
Justworks added international capability by acquisition, and it shows in the architecture: EOR coverage in roughly 30 countries, attached to a platform engineered for U.S. co-employment. That’s a real offering — but it’s an extension, and extensions have edges.
Niural’s global capability is the same system, not a bolt-on: EOR and global payroll across ~150 countries, international contractor management, and multi-currency payments, all running on one engine alongside U.S. payroll. Your first international hire is a new country on the platform you already run — not a new product, a new contract, or a reason to re-evaluate your vendor.
The Money Layer
Every month, payroll is only one of the payment flows leaving your accounts: contractor invoices, vendor bills, reimbursements, one-off disbursements. Justworks handles the payroll portion and stops — the rest lives in whatever adjacent tools your team stitched together, each with its own reconciliation.
Niural runs the whole flow from the same infrastructure as payroll: vendor payments, bill pay, and multi-currency treasury post to one reconciled record with one approval chain. It’s the part of the platform Justworks simply doesn’t have an answer to — not a thinner version, no version.
And the balance itself works for you: funds held on the platform earn cash rewards — deploy them to payroll and payments on your schedule, and earn on what’s parked in the meantime. No traditional PEO pays you back.
In practice
One funding balance, one approval chain, one reconciled record — for payroll and everything around it. And a balance that gives something back while it sits.
Choose Justworks if:
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You’re under ~50 U.S. employees and want the simplest possible PEO experience
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Published, predictable pricing you can see before a sales call matters to you
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You have no international hiring on the horizon and no finance stack to consolidate
Choose Niural if:
You expect to pass 50–100 employees, hire internationally, or both, within the next couple of years
You want the option to move to your own EIN without replatforming
You want vendor payments, bill pay, and treasury unified with payroll
You have an ATS or HRIS you intend to keep as you scale
Run payroll (U.S. or global)
Fund via wallet
Pay employees + contractors
Execute vendor payments
Reconcile automatically
See how Niural runs U.S. PEO today — and your own EIN, your global hires, and your payments when you’re ready.
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