Toku HR vs TriNet HR Platform (Zenefits): price, features and fit (2026)

Zenefits is now the TriNet HR Platform

Zenefits is no longer a separate brand. TriNet's pages call the former Zenefits product the HR Platform, its login label reads "also known as TriNet Zenefits", and zenefits.com now redirects to trinet.com. The HR Platform is the software behind HR Plus, which TriNet describes as its administrative services organization (ASO) for small and medium-size businesses. HR Plus sits beside TriNet's PEO, a different offer whose page describes a bundle of HR support, payroll, benefits and compliance.

Toku HR is a single HR product for companies that employ and pay their own staff. It is not a PEO, nobody is co-employed through it, and it contains no payroll. So this page sets a software plan against a TriNet product that puts payroll, benefits administration and compliance support around its HR software.

Price: a per-employee quote against a price list

TriNet publishes no amounts. Its HR Plus pricing page says the price follows a per employee per month model and sends you to its team for detail, and it lists a flat per-employee fee with service choices such as Payroll Pro. The PEO is priced as a flat fee per employee per month, depending on company size and the services you need. TriNet also says the PEO has a minimum worksite employee count and that its PEO pricing is for new clients only.

A promotion page on trinet.com mentions annual subscriptions to an HR Platform base plan sold in tiers. It names no tiers and gives no prices, so there is still no number to put in a spreadsheet.

Toku HR is priced the other way round. Up to 25 employees a month costs $125 on Starter, $225 on Growth or $325 on Scale, and above that it is $5, $9 or $13 for each employee. Contractors are free. Because TriNet's fee is charged per employee, line the figures below up against a TriNet quote that names every product in it, such as Payroll Pro or the engagement surveys module:

• 10 employees: $125 on Starter, $225 on Growth, $325 on Scale, per month.
• 26 employees: $130 on Starter, $234 on Growth, $338 on Scale, per month.
• 50 employees: $250 on Starter, $450 on Growth, $650 on Scale, per month.

What each one includes

The day-to-day HR work overlaps, and the details differ.

• Records and paperwork. The HR Platform lists an org chart and directory, automated workflows for promotions, transfers and terminations, document storage with auto-generated worker documents and role-based access, offer letters with e-signature, background checks, self-onboarding, and prebuilt and custom reports. In Toku HR you get employee records and a directory, e-signature on documents, expenses, equipment and reports, with permissions by role and an audit trail.
• Time off. The HR Platform calculates balances automatically and lets admins create PTO policies that feed payroll and scheduling, with blackout dates. Toku HR's leave types accrue time, take requests and route approvals, and the statutory holidays of the employee's country are filled in for you.
• Time tracking. TriNet lists time tracking on desktop and mobile apps, optional clock-in location capture and shift scheduling. Growth and Scale add time tracking and a web clock to Toku HR.
• Integrations and sign-in. TriNet lists prebuilt integrations for accounting, HRIS and identity systems, a OneLogin single sign-on integration in its marketplace, and APIs for developers, with the details behind a login. On the Toku HR side, Growth and Scale add Slack approvals, and the Scale plan adds Okta and SAML single sign-on along with API access.

Where the TriNet HR Platform is ahead today

• Payroll. Payroll is built into the HR Platform, and TriNet says it files federal, state and local payroll taxes and Form 1099s. Payroll Pro is a paid package that adds payroll specialists. Toku HR leaves payroll with your own provider.
• Benefits and compliance. HR Plus runs benefits administration on a dashboard shared by employer, employees and brokers. The PEO pages list access to big-company benefits, COBRA notices and payment collection, and compliance support under federal, state and local law. None of these is in Toku HR's plans.
• Performance. The HR Platform has review cycles and goals, with 360 and peer review templates, and engagement surveys on their own page. Growth and Scale carry goals and feedback in Toku HR. Review cycles, 360 reviews and surveys are not in it.
• Hiring. Applicant tracking is listed on its HR Plus platform page. Toku HR has no applicant tracking of its own.
• Mobile and AI. TriNet has an employee mobile app for Apple and Android and TriNet Assistant, an AI chat for admins and employees. Admins can also ask questions about workforce data inside Reports and Analytics. Toku HR is without both a mobile app and an AI assistant.

Where Toku HR is the better fit

• A price list. Every plan has a stated per-employee price with a 25-employee minimum, contractors cost nothing, and a yearly plan is billed at ten months' price.
• Software without a services bundle. Nothing is attached to Toku HR beyond the HR plans, so changing it does not touch your payroll, benefits or compliance arrangements.
• Holidays and hiring in other countries. Statutory holidays for each country are added on every plan. TriNet's global hiring and payroll run through a partner, Multiplier, as a separately contracted add-on that TriNet says is sold only with the PEO. Toku's own employer of record service is available in 100+ countries, and global payroll is sold beside it, apart from Toku HR.

How to choose

Decide which kind of product you want before you compare features. If you want a PEO, Toku HR is not one, and TriNet's PEO is the offer to look at. If you want HR software with US payroll inside it, ask TriNet for an HR Plus quote. If your payroll is settled and you want the HR layer at a price you can read, Toku HR is the closer match.

Put these questions to TriNet:

• Is the quote for the HR Platform alone, or does it include Payroll Pro or other service packages?
• Is the HR Platform sold in tiers, and which tier holds the features you need?
• Are engagement surveys and applicant tracking in the price or added on top?
• If you hire abroad, what does the Multiplier add-on cost, and does it require the PEO?

Switching from the HR Platform

First check which TriNet agreement you are on. Customers of the HR Platform and HR Plus were previously TriNet Zenefits customers, and a PEO customer may get payroll, benefits and compliance support through that contract. If TriNet runs those for you, decide who will before you move HR, because Toku HR has none of them.

Then make a list of what has to move: employee records, leave balances and policies, and documents. Ask TriNet for the contract term and notice period in writing, and keep the HR Platform live for one pay period after the move so you can check every balance. Scale includes free assisted migration and priority support, and on the other plans you can ask Toku what the move involves. For a payroll-first alternative, see Toku HR vs Gusto.