Workwize vs Deel IT (Previously Hofy): 150-Seat Minimum or $49 to $149 a User a Month?

Anyone comparing Workwize vs Deel IT usually holds two quotes that do not use the same unit: one vendor prices seats, the other prices users in bundles, and both put hardware on a separate line. The hardware line matters. One Deel IT customer on r/sysadmin says their team mostly buys elsewhere "because its 20% more expensive to buy from them than our usual suppliers" (January 2026 Reddit comment).

The short answer: Workwize fits a company that wants its HR system to drive orders, once it clears the 150-user minimum on Basic, and Deel IT fits a company already paying Deel for payroll. This guide compares price, ease of use, support, integrations and coverage, then shows the option built for teams that fit neither.

Workwize ratings were read in September 2026 and the Trustpilot figure in the same month. Deel IT's G2 profile mixes payroll reviews with device reviews, so this guide does not use a G2 score for it.

Who Is Workwize Best For?

Fourteen of Workwize's 23 G2 reviews arrived between 3 and 16 September 2026, every one tagged as a seller invite, and the score moved from 4.4 to 4.2 as they landed. Read the rating with that in mind.

Workwize is an Amsterdam company, founded in 2020, with 14 warehouse hubs and a pricing page built around three seat-based tiers. One gate comes before any feature: the Basic plan needs at least 150 users, and Workwize's own FAQ says the platform was designed for companies of that size. Past that gate, it serves three buyers well:

• IT teams that want HR events to place orders: BambooHR, HiBob, Workday, Personio, Rippling and Okta are among the named integrations, so a new hire in the HR system can trigger a device order without a ticket.
• Buyers who want one per-seat contract: services sit inside the seat fee, so most service costs are fixed when you sign.
• Teams near a Workwize warehouse: stock you have already bought and parked in one of the hubs ships in one to five working days, according to Workwize's own sales material.

A Capterra customer sums up the appeal: "Workwize can handle the full end user product cycle" (vendor-invited Capterra review).

For Whom Is Deel IT Useful?

Three per-user bundles are on Deel's pricing page as of October 2026: $49 for Starter, $139 for Growth and $149 for Scale. Deel IT (previously Hofy) changed hands in July 2024, when Deel acquired Hofy, and took its new name that September. The device business now sits inside Deel's payroll and employment suite, and its G2 profile mixes payroll and device reviews, so the equipment ratings live on Trustpilot. It is useful for:

• Teams whose payroll or EOR already runs on Deel: devices, contracts and payslips share one login, which no stand-alone device vendor can copy.
• Contractor-heavy companies: the same portal handles the contract, the payment, the laptop and the offboarding.
• Teams that want MDM and endpoint protection from the device supplier: both come inside the Starter bundle. An IT onboarding engineer says the platform helps "centralize device and access management for distributed teams" (organic G2 review).

The hardware is where buyers hesitate. Each device starts from its US recommended retail price, and Deel adds a store fee on top. When a customer raised the gap on Reddit, Deel's own account replied that the "price delta vs direct suppliers is a fair callout too" (February 2026 reply).

Tequipy: An Alternative

Tequipy's co-founder learned the job as Revolut's Head of IT, where headcount went from 100 in two offices to 5,000 in 17 and not one laptop went missing. Against these two vendors, four things differ:

• No seat count: you pay for devices and for services when they happen, whatever your headcount.
• Retail price with delivery included: a laptop costs what the local manufacturer's store charges, with ABM or Autopilot enrolment free.
• Local sourcing: 600+ authorised resellers deliver inside 180+ countries, so global laptop procurement never crosses a customs border.
• Services on devices you already own: retrieval, storage and redeployment work on laptops bought anywhere.

Our rates come from the Tequipy pricing page; the competitor rows are sourced in the sections below.

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Price

Neither vendor shows a final price for your team without a demo, but both now publish enough to compare. The difference is the unit: Workwize bills seats, Deel IT bills users in bundles.

Workwize Price

• Seats plus a platform fee: Workwize's own competitor-comparison pages list the Basic plan at $8 per seat plus a $540 platform fee. Professional costs $11 a seat plus the same $540 fee and adds automatic offboarding pickup and five regions. The pricing page itself shows "Request Pricing" on every tier and lists three tiers that differ by how many regions you can ship to: three on Basic, five on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise.
• Services sit inside the seat fee: Workwize publishes no separate price for pickups, storage or repair. You pay for them in quiet months too. A mid-market reviewer writes: "The costs are a downside, especially the monthly fee" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Hardware is the other line: no catalogue prices are public. A small-business reviewer who likes the service says "the asset pricing can be astronomical, making some current laptops cost more than my first car" (seller-invited G2 review).

Deel IT Price

• Per user, in three bundles: Starter at $49 covers the platform, device lifecycle management, MDM and endpoint protection; Growth at $139 adds 24/7 IT support; Scale at $149 adds access management. Hardware is billed on top.
• A free plan that orders only: Essentials has no subscription and no contract, which matches how Tequipy starts. It excludes lifecycle management, MDM and endpoint protection, and every order is paid by card upfront.
• Store fee on devices: a former Hofy customer says it "used to lay 25% on top of market prices" (February 2026 Reddit comment). A team that evaluated Deel IT told us that, configuration for configuration, the real gap came closer to 40 to 45%.
• Third-party estimates run lower: Vendr still lists the product under the Hofy name, with a median buyer paying $4,188 a year. Vendr does not say which contracts it covers, and the figure sits far below today's list price, so read it as an estimate, not a Deel price.

Verdict on Price

At 150 people, Workwize is cheaper on the published access fee: $20,880 a year on Basic if both fees are monthly, against $88,200 for Deel IT Starter. Deel IT's figure includes MDM and endpoint protection, so subtract what you pay for those today before you call the gap. Below 150 users, Workwize's Basic plan is closed to you and its other tiers need a sales call.

Ease of Use

Ease of use here means two things: how long it takes before the first device ships, and how much manual work remains afterwards.

Workwize Ease of Use

• Plan for weeks, not days: G2's own summary puts Workwize's average time to implement at 2 months. A small-business reviewer says "the implementation timeline has been longer than expected" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Catalogue gaps send you back to old suppliers: a mid-market reviewer writes, "At the beginning, we used to have some issues with certain products availability, hence why we then bought some stock from my previous suppliers" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Reporting is basic: a 5-star reviewer wishes for "deeper customizable reports for asset utilization, lifecycle cost, and inventory trends" (seller-invited G2 review).

Deel IT Ease of Use

• Simple if your team already works in Deel: admins add equipment to the account they use for payroll, with no second login.
• Exceptions still need people: the onboarding engineer quoted earlier adds that "Some processes still need manual intervention especially when handling exceptions or unique onboarding cases" (organic G2 review).
• Advanced features take time: a fashion-sector reviewer notes "there can be a bit of a learning curve when you start exploring some of the more advanced features" (seller-invited G2 review).

Verdict on Ease of Use

Deel IT is easier for a team that already lives in Deel, because there is nothing new to learn at the start. Workwize asks for a longer setup in return for more automation once it runs.

Customer Support

Support decides how a late laptop gets found, so read this section with your next start date in mind.

Workwize Support

• The people get praise: a Capterra reviewer says "the Workwize support team was always available for us and responsive" (vendor-invited Capterra review).
• Follow-up is the weak point: an Enterprise TechOps manager who rated Workwize 0 out of 5 says getting real help is "long winded and inconsistent usually resulting in an email thread that receives follow ups days later" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Even happy customers ask for a faster channel: a 5-star reviewer writes, "I would like to have this all through slack" (seller-invited G2 review).

Deel IT Support

• 24/7 support costs extra: it is part of Growth at $139 and Scale at $149, not Starter.
• Remote locations wait longer: a small-business reviewer lists "slow support for hardware issues in remote locations" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Billing draws complaints too: a buyer who used Deel IT described its billing team to us as the "hardest vendor to deal with by several orders of magnitude".
• Paperwork can lag: a customer who used the buyback and e-waste route says "we've been waiting over 6 months at this point to receive a certificate of destruction for one of them" (January 2026 Reddit comment).

Verdict on Support

Neither has a clean record. Workwize customers like the people and dislike the speed of follow-up; Deel IT customers pay more for round-the-clock help and report delays where the courier network is thinnest. A team that evaluated Workwize told us it was waiting 4 to 6 weeks for deliveries in Europe and India, which is the kind of delay support has to explain.

Integrations

Here the question is simple: does your HR system place the order, or does someone on your team?

Workwize Integrations

• The longer list: Workwize claims 100+ HRIS integrations, including BambooHR, HiBob, Workday, Personio, Rippling, Gusto and ADP, plus Okta, Entra ID, Jamf and Intune.
• Enrolment is the gap to test: the same Enterprise reviewer reports "Multiple recurring incidents of devices arriving without ABM/DEP enrolment, blocking onboarding" (seller-invited G2 review). Workwize became an Apple Business Partner in August 2026, so ask whether that has changed.

Deel IT Integrations

• Deel's own products come first: EOR, payroll and contractor management all feed Deel IT directly. Deel added Sastrify for software spend in May 2026 and Clarity for identity security in August 2026.
• MDM is managed for you, with less control: an Enterprise user says "a security patch was forced through with no warning" (seller-invited G2 review).

Verdict on Integrations

Workwize wins for a team on an HR system other than Deel. Deel IT wins if Deel is the HR system. HiBob, BambooHR and Workday sync natively for $199 a month, anything else connects over a REST API, and devices enrol through Apple Business Manager or Windows Autopilot, so zero-touch deployment works with Jamf, Intune, Kandji or JumpCloud.

Coverage, Delivery and Retrieval

Workwize publishes three country counts at once: 100+ on LinkedIn, 120 in the About page stats, and 130+ in its FAQ. Deel IT says 130+. Neither makes it easy to see which countries get the full lifecycle.

Workwize Coverage

• Fast from stock, slower without it: the FAQ says "With equipment that is in stock, we ship orders within one to seven working days". Stock means hardware you bought earlier and parked in a Workwize warehouse.
• Couriers are the weak link: a 5-star reviewer says delivery problems "are almost always with local courier partners" (seller-invited G2 review).
• Retrieval drew the sharpest 2026 complaints: one reviewer writes, "The biggest issue lately has been retrieval" (seller-invited G2 review), and an unprompted Trustpilot reviewer says equipment booked for one country can "end up on a different continent" (September 2026 Trustpilot review).

Deel IT Coverage

• Strong claims: Deel reports 99% on-time delivery and 96% device recovery. Both are company figures, not audited ones.
• Cost rises in harder countries: a buyer who priced the Philippines says "it was too expensive for what was offered" (January 2026 Reddit comment).
• Some teams run a second vendor: one buyer told us they run Deel IT next to another provider and still have countries neither one covers.

Verdict on Coverage

Recovery is where both promises get tested. In Capterra's 2022 offboarding survey of 287 HR workers, 71% said at least one departing employee had kept company equipment. Workwize's 2026 reviews describe pickups that never happened; Deel IT's describe slow paperwork after collection. Ask both for retrieval data in your own countries, or compare a laptop retrieval service that works on devices bought anywhere.

Pro tip: get the country answer in writing before the demo. List your three hardest countries and send both vendors the same laptop configuration.

Ask Workwize which of the three ship from one of its 14 warehouses and which go through its supplier network, and what your plan tier lets you ship to. Ask Deel IT for the device price in each country and the US list price it started from. Ask both for the date of their last completed pickup there. The answers show where each promise is backed by stock and where it is backed by a partner.

How to Choose a Device Lifecycle Platform

Three checks sort this choice faster than a feature grid.

Count What You Pay For: Seats, Users or Orders

A seat price and a user price both grow with headcount, even in a month when nobody joins or leaves. Before comparing, write down how many people you employ, how many devices you run, and how many hires and leavers you had last year. Tequipy charges for the last of those: devices and services, when they happen, with device lifecycle management software free for up to 100 devices.

Ask Where the Managed Service Starts

Entry plans tell you what a vendor wants you to try. Deel IT's free Essentials plan orders devices but leaves out MDM and lifecycle management, and Workwize's Basic plan leaves out automatic offboarding pickup and automatic deployment. Tequipy sells one product, so a first order gets the same retrieval, storage and redeployment as the hundredth.

Check Who Answers When a Delivery Slips

Ask each vendor what happens on the day a laptop misses a start date: who you message, and how fast they reply. Tequipy gives every customer a shared Slack channel instead of a ticket queue.

Alternative to Both: Tequipy

The method behind it comes from Revolut's IT team: buy in the country, enrol before dispatch, and get every laptop back when someone leaves.

Key Features

Tequipy handles the physical side of the device lifecycle and works with the MDM and HR systems you already run.

Local Sourcing in the Employee's Country

Orders go to one of 600+ authorised resellers, always one inside the employee's country, across 180+ countries. Because the laptop never leaves the country, customs and import duty never come into it. Delivery averages three business days, with ten as the maximum anywhere. If a laptop takes longer than ten business days, Tequipy discounts it.

Devices That Arrive Enrolled

Macs are assigned to your Apple Business Manager and Windows machines registered with Autopilot before they ship, at no charge. The employee powers on and the device enrols in your MDM. Tequipy needs your ABM organisation ID, not access to the MDM itself.

Retrieval, Storage, Redeployment and Sellback

When someone leaves, Tequipy contacts them, sends a box if needed, collects the laptop, wipes it and stores it for $12 a month. From there it can go to the next hire for $70 to $150, or be sold back for cash. Every step works on devices you bought somewhere else.

Tequipy Pricing

A 150-person team pays Deel IT $88,200 a year, Workwize $20,880 before services, and Tequipy $5,532 with services included. Both rivals charge by the seat: Deel IT Starter is $49 per user a month and Workwize Basic $8 a seat plus a $540 platform fee (October 2026), so each hire adds $588 a year on Deel IT. Tequipy charges one flat platform fee whatever the fleet size: free for up to 100 devices, then $99 a month. Deel's price includes MDM and endpoint protection. Optional HRIS sync is $199 a month. Enter what you pay today and see for yourself.

Where Tequipy Shines

• No markup on hardware: Tequipy buys hardware below retail through volume and sells at retail, so it earns mainly on hardware and second on services. That is the whole answer to "what's the catch".
• Coverage that does not depend on stock: local resellers in 180+ countries mean a hire in Colombia or the Philippines gets the same process as one in London. Booksy tested Tequipy in Latin America first and then expanded to other regions.
• A paper trail for every device: ISO 27001 certification, chain of custody, and Blancco-certified wipes or a certificate of destruction when you ask for one.

Where Tequipy Falls Short

• No payroll, EOR or contractor product: Tequipy covers devices only. A team that wants employment and equipment on one invoice will not find that here.
• Few native HRIS integrations: three native connections today: HiBob, BambooHR and Workday. The REST API covers the rest, and the team often builds a connection on request.
• SOC 2 is in progress: ISO 27001 is certified and penetration test reports are available. Ask the team where the SOC 2 audit stands today.

Tequipy Customer Reviews

Four reviews make up Tequipy's G2 score of 4.9 out of 5 (October 2026), too few to count as a pattern. A mid-market reviewer writes, "I find Tequipy's platform extremely intuitive and simple" (August 2026 G2 review).

RemoFirst, which hires across 30 countries, says of the change: "It's taken a huge burden off our internal teams" (RemoFirst case study). The same case study puts prevented equipment losses at about $2,000 per employee.

Who Tequipy Is Best For

• Globally distributed teams: three countries, fifteen or more, with one rate card and one process in each.
• Teams making their first hire abroad: a new country with no entity, no supplier and no office is where the old way of buying laptops runs out.
• Teams facing a renewal: a Deel IT customer told us, "The device cost was like double what the actual device was." Tequipy charges the retail price with delivery included and no setup fee, so one order before that date shows the difference.

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Which Is Cheaper for a 150-Person Team, Workwize or Deel IT?

Workwize, if you only count the published access fee. A like-for-like answer needs three more lines: what you pay today for MDM and endpoint protection, which Deel IT's Starter bundle includes; the hardware each vendor bills on top; and any shipping or storage fees Workwize adds.

How Fast Do Workwize and Deel IT Deliver a Laptop?

It depends on stock. Workwize ships in one to seven working days when the equipment is already in stock, which usually means hardware you bought ahead and stored in its warehouse. Deel IT markets delivery in under 10 working days and a 99% on-time rate, both company figures rather than audited ones.

Do Workwize and Deel IT Both Hold SOC 2 and ISO 27001?

Yes, by their own statements. Workwize says it is SOC 2 Type II attested and ISO 27001 certified. Deel IT lists SOC 1, 2 and 3, ISO 27001 and GDPR. Ask each for the current report before a security review.

What Happens to Fees You Have Paid but Not Used?

Usually nothing comes back. Workwize charges per seat each month whether or not you use a service, and Deel's help centre says its Pro plan requires a signed order form. One Deel IT buyer told us their team could not move platforms mid-year because "we technically have left over money on the deal".

Can You Test a Device Vendor in One Country Before Signing?

Yes, with some vendors. Deel IT's free Essentials plan lets you order without a contract; the managed service needs a signed Pro contract. Tequipy needs no contract at all: you can place one order in one country, pay on a $5,000 credit line within seven days, and leave if it does not work. Booksy started that way in Latin America, with its first orders there.