Heka vs Ben
Ben and Heka both help companies manage employee benefits, but they solve different problems: Ben is built for administering and consolidating what you already offer, while Heka is built to make sure employees actually use it.
Heka's approach comes with clinically-curated wellbeing partners, AI-powered personalisation, and reporting that shows what your benefits investment is actually achieving. Many larger organisations run Heka alongside Ben.
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Heka vs Ben:
A quick comparison
Ben is a modern benefits administration platform. Its strength is helping employers consolidate benefits, reward schemes, and allowances into a single place that's easier to manage.
Heka solves a different problem. We're an AI-powered flexible wellbeing benefits platform designed to help employees find and use support that improves their health, whether that's menopause care, therapy, nutrition coaching, neurodiversity support, sleep programmes, or financial wellbeing.
Whilst Ben focuses on benefits administration and reward management, Heka focuses on clinically-curated wellbeing partners, personalisation, and measurable health outcomes, often running alongside Ben for larger organisations.
If your challenge is simplifying benefits operations, Ben may be a good fit. If your challenge is improving employee health and wellbeing and proving the return on your benefits investment, Heka was built for exactly that.
At a glance:
The short answer:
Heka is a clinically-curated flexible benefits platform with an AI-powered recommendation engine that helps every employee find what's relevant to them. Juno is a lifestyle perks wallet with a lighter wellbeing layer. They look similar from the outside, but perform very differently when wellbeing is something your business actually has to deliver on.
Both platforms give your team flexibility. Only one ties that flexibility to outcomes you can prove to Finance. If you want a benefits programme that earns its budget back in engagement, inclusion and outcomes through healthier employees, Heka's the stronger fit.
Why People teams
choose Heka
Ben is designed to make benefits easier to manage. Heka is designed to make wellbeing easier to access, with no procurement. That difference shapes everything from the partners employees can choose, to the support they receive, to the insights People teams get back. Think of a flex platform like Ben as a house that's only furnished with the benefits you've already chosen: want more, and you add them one by one. Heka furnishes the whole house in one go, plugging every benefit gap without extra procurement.
Why People teams
choose Heka
No two employees have the same needs. Someone planning a family needs something completely different from someone looking for mental health support or help managing ADHD. Heka helps people find support that's relevant to them, rather than expecting everyone to browse the same marketplace and work it out themselves.
Why People teams
choose Heka
Offering hundreds of benefits is one thing. Helping employees discover the right ones is another thing completely.
Heka recommends benefits and content based on each person's interests and needs, making it much easier for employees to find something genuinely valuable.
Why People teams
choose Heka
Admin reporting tells you what's been enrolled in or purchased. Wellbeing reporting tells you where employees are engaging, which areas matter most and where you may need to offer more support.
That's the information People teams need when they're planning next year's wellbeing strategy.
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Why People teams
choose Heka
Making benefits easier to administer is important, but that's only half the job. Heka was built to make sure employees actually discover, use, and benefit from the support available to them. The result is a platform that doesn't just simplify benefits, it makes them more valuable.
Questions buyers ask us
Can we keep the benefits our team already loves?
Yes. Your existing benefits, like PMI or EAP, can be signposted within the platform, alongside Heka's robust network of UK health and wellbeing partners. We'll flag any existing benefits that sit outside of Heka's offering in initial conversations, and work to find a solution directly with your team before onboarding.
Our team is stretched - will Heka create more work for us?
We've built Heka to avoid it landing on your to-do list. Partner curation, employee support, and content all sit with us, so your team gets to focus on strategy and comms, not operating a marketplace. Most People leaders tell us Heka takes work off their plate.
Does Heka handle UK tax and benefit-in-kind?
Yes. Heka surfaces clear tax information for employees and produces the data your payroll and Finance team need. We don't replace your salary sacrifice provider for things like pensions, but BIK on your wellbeing allowance is straightforward with Heka.
What if our team is already used to Ben?
We've helped customers move across to Heka, and have helped customers run both side by side. We'll be straight about what suits you, even if that means staying where you are.
