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Weigh your options.

When HR work gets messy, you have a few choices: hire someone, buy another system, or keep stitching it together yourself. Here’s the honest comparison against all of them — including the rows we lose.

Before the vendors

Your three real options.

Hire someone

What it’s good for

Judgment, presence, a person who owns it.

Where it breaks

$70k–$150k a year for one person on business hours, who still needs systems to work in.

The MambaHR answer

MambaHR does the repeatable work for a fraction of the cost, and your eventual hire starts with a running department.

Buy more software

What it’s good for

Cleaner records, better forms, nicer dashboards.

Where it breaks

A system of record stores the work. Someone on your team still does it, in every module you bought.

The MambaHR answer

MambaHR is the system of record and the worker in one. The data lives there, and the work gets done there.

Spreadsheets & Slack

What it’s good for

Free, flexible, starts today.

Where it breaks

Breaks fast. No audit trail, inconsistent process, and the payroll change someone forgot becomes a real problem.

The MambaHR answer

MambaHR gives you structure, workflows, and an audit trail from day one, still in Slack, where your team already is.

Head to head

Pick your incumbent.

Honest comparisons against every major HRIS, PEO, payroll, and ATS, feature tables included, the rows we lose included.

Most requestedMambaHR vsRipplingRippling is the stack. MambaHR is the department that runs on it.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsGustoGusto handles payday. MambaHR handles every other day.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsDeelDeel pays global contractors. MambaHR runs your domestic HR.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsBambooHRBambooHR stores your data. MambaHR acts on it.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsNamelyNamely made the HRIS prettier. MambaHR makes it unnecessary.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsHiBobHiBob made HR look modern. MambaHR makes it run itself.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsADPADP is the back office. MambaHR is the front line.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsWorkdayWorkday is a project. MambaHR is a product.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsJustworksJustworks rents you HR staff. MambaHR is the HR staff.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsTriNetTriNet is a PEO with a rep. MambaHR is the department.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsPaychexPaychex sells you services. MambaHR does the work.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsZenefitsZenefits gave you a dashboard. MambaHR does the work behind it.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsPaylocityPaylocity is a suite to operate. MambaHR operates itself.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsUKGUKG is software you implement. MambaHR you turn on.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsGreenhouseGreenhouse is an ATS. MambaHR hires, then runs the rest.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsLeverLever is recruiting software. MambaHR is the whole department.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsRemoteRemote pays across borders. MambaHR runs the team you employ.Read the comparison →MambaHR vsOysterOyster hires across borders. MambaHR runs the team at home.Read the comparison →

Whoever you compare us to

Four things only we do.

01

It does the work.

Leave approved. Offer drafted. Candidate screened. MambaHR handles the request end-to-end, not just surfaces the information for someone else to act on.

02

It lives in Slack.

No new software to learn. Employees mention @mamba in any channel and get answers in seconds. Managers approve in a thread.

03

Human in the loop.

Every high-stakes decision, offers above band, terminations, PIPs, routes to you for approval before anything happens. The agent handles the routine, you handle the judgment.

04

Built for the long tail.

The compliance engine, the audit trail, the specialist agents, all of it built for the HR lead doing the work of ten.

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