See how Campfire beats Rillet across every category.
Trusted by fast-moving teams that evaluated both
“Having evaluated our options, including legacy ERPs and Rillet, Campfire was the clear winner. The product velocity, depth of financial metrics, data dimensionality, and hands-on support, all with AI at the core, matched what we were looking for. It fits how we think about building a company today.”
Libby Francke
VP Finance & Accounting, Klarity
Both Campfire and Rillet are built for modern, high-growth finance teams. Here’s where they differ.
| FEATURES | Rillet | |
|---|---|---|
| AI Approach | Campfire AI-native, purpose-built for accounting — agentic anomaly detection, automated JEs, predictive close | Rillet General-purpose AI wrapper with limited accounting context |
| Complexity | Campfire Enterprise-grade: multi-entity consolidations and complex rev rec (multi-element, variable consideration, contract mods), built to scale. | Rillet Strong on standard SaaS metrics, but a rigid, opinionated model that needs manual workarounds for usage-based, multi-element, and contract-modification revenue. |
| Controls | Campfire Enterprise RBAC, global and transactional audit logs, and human-in-the-loop AI: every agentic action lands in a draft state that mirrors user permissions before it posts. Public companies audited on the platform. | Rillet Controls take a back seat to auto-posting; agents post to the GL with audit gaps at scale. |
| Close management | Campfire Structured close with a real checklist, task dependencies, and full impact visibility. Nothing posts until a human approves. | Rillet Continuous auto-posting; the close checklist is cosmetic because entries are already booked. |
| Global compliance | Campfire Native localization packages (Israel, India, UK, and more) with local VAT/GST, statutory reporting, and withholding built in. | Rillet US-first with limited local packages; third-party tools required for VAT/GST and local reporting. |
| Lease Accounting | Campfire ASC 842 native — load once, Campfire calculates liability, ROU asset, and amortization automatically | Rillet No native lease accounting. Schedules managed outside the platform |
| Multi-Book | Campfire Run GAAP/IFRS, statutory/management, or local/consolidated side by side with full drill-through | Rillet Single ledger only. Dual-standard reporting done manually outside the system |
| Integrations | Campfire 100+ native integrations (including Navan, Zip, and Snowflake) plus an open API and MCP for anything custom. | Rillet Deep billing connectors but a narrow operational set; no Navan, Zip, or Snowflake, and won't always build the integration you need. |
| Implementation & migration | Campfire CPA-led onboarding with in-house migration tooling. No offshore handoffs. | Rillet Named implementers, but customers report post-go-live training gaps and a bumpy handoff. |
| Support | Campfire Elite, Slack-based support backed by an in-house accounting team. | Rillet Strong onboarding, but customers reported bumpy handoff to support after go-live. |
| Team | Campfire ~40% accountants - CPAs, ex-Big 4, ex-auditors. Built for function over form | Rillet Generalist team. Prioritized UI polish over accounting fundamentals |
Built deeper, not just different
Ember is powered by Accounting Intelligence - Campfire’s proprietary foundation model trained on millions of real accounting transactions. It understands debits and credits, chart of accounts structure, vendor patterns, and what a clean set of books looks like. Rillet uses a third-party AI layer with limited accounting context. The difference shows up every time you ask a question or review a journal entry.
Multi-entity consolidations, intercompany eliminations, ASC 606 with per-contract SSP overrides, complex billing models - Campfire handles the complexity that enterprise-stage companies actually face. Rillet was built for simple subscription billing and requires manual workarounds as complexity grows.
Every feature Campfire ships is designed by people who’ve closed the books themselves. Rillet has prioritized UI polish over accounting fundamentals. The result is software that looks great but requires workarounds for the work that actually matters.
Campfire ships weekly. Feature requests from customers regularly make it into the product within days. Klarity’s team noted that “product changes get rolled in seemingly the next week.” Rillet has a stable but slower cadence - which means waiting longer for the features your business needs today.
“Campfire has been a major unlock in terms of efficiency. We’re able to close our books in half the time without adding headcount, which means our finance team can focus on being a force multiplier for the entire company.”
Brian Lese
Head of Finance, TwelveLabs
AI-powered general ledger. Real-time multi-entity consolidation across 180+ currencies. Continuous close on autopilot.
Subscription, usage, milestone, transaction, or hybrid. ASC 606 with per-contract SSP overrides. Automated contract to journal entry.
Powered by Accounting Intelligence - Campfire’s own foundation model. Always-running and on-demand agents. Every answer links to source transactions.
Build reports in seconds, drill to any transaction.
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