See how Campfire beat Rillet across every category.
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“Having evaluated our options, including Everest 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, complex rev rec (multi-element, variable consideration, contract mods), built to scale | Rillet Built for simple subscription billing. Manual workarounds as complexity grows |
| Controls | Campfire Enterprise RBAC, global and transactional audit logs. Public companies audited on the platform | Rillet Controls take a back seat to auto-posting. Audit gaps at scale |
| Global compliance | Campfire Live on every continent with native localization packages (Israel, India, UK and more) | Rillet No native localization. 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 | Rillet Narrow set built for early-stage SaaS. No Navan, Zip, or Snowflake |
| 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
20x
REVENUE GROWTH, NO ADDED FINANCE HEADCOUNT
Replit — $10M to $200M ARR
$300k
SAVED IN OPERATIONAL COSTS WITH GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION
Avg. across enterprise customers
70%
REDUCTION IN CLOSE TIMES VS LEGACY ERP BASELINE
Across Campfire customer base
80+
HOURS SAVED MONTHLY PER FINANCE TEAM MEMBER
Based on customer time-tracking data
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.