Heka vs Reward
Gateway
Reward Gateway and Heka both sit in the employee benefits space, but they solve different problems: Reward Gateway's discounts and recognition are built to boost sentiment and shape culture, while Heka funds real, clinically-curated health and wellbeing support your team can use every day.
Heka's approach comes with a funded monthly allowance, AI-powered personalisation, and reporting that shows what your wellbeing investment is doing for engagement and business performance - not just sentiment.
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Heka vs Reward Gateway: A quick comparison
Reward Gateway is an employee engagement platform. Its strength lies in discounts, recognition, and salary sacrifice schemes built to boost sentiment and shape culture, all consolidated 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, or financial wellbeing.
Reward Gateway builds sentiment through discounts and recognition, while Heka focuses on clinically-curated wellbeing partners and measurable health outcomes, the kind that drive real engagement and stronger business performance - not just goodwill.
If your challenge is fostering culture and consolidating discounts and benefits admin, Reward Gateway may be a good fit. If your challenge is genuinely improving your employees' health and wellbeing and proving the return on your 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
Reward Gateway is designed to make employee engagement and benefits admin easier to manage. Heka is designed to also streamline admin, while making wellbeing easier to access, with no additional procurement. That difference shapes everything from the partners employees can choose, to the support they receive, to the insights People teams get back.
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 surfaces relevant support, rather than expecting everyone to browse a catalogue of discounts, content and challenges and work it out themselves.
Why People teams
choose Heka
Offering hundreds of discounts, benefits and content options is one thing. Helping employees discover the right ones is another.
Heka recommends benefits and content based on each person's interests and needs, making it much easier for employees to find something genuinely valuable for them.
Why People teams
choose Heka
Admin reporting tells you what's been redeemed, recognised or clicked. 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 is 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 everything on offer more valuable.
Questions buyers ask us
Is Heka more expensive than Reward Gateway?
It's not a like-for-like comparison because Reward Gateway and Heka price for different jobs. Reward Gateway prices for an admin platform bundling discounts, recognition, salary sacrifice, and content. Heka prices for a funded wellbeing allowance every employee spends. We're happy to model your numbers so you can see where the spend actually goes.
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.
We already have wellbeing content and an EAP through Reward Gateway. Do we still need Heka?
Content, EAP, and funded wellbeing benefits all do different jobs. Reward Gateway's content gives employees articles and challenges. Heka gives every employee a funded monthly allowance to spend on the actual products, services, and specialists that improve their day-to-day health. Most People teams keep all three running side by side.
Will employees notice the change?
Yes, in a good way. Alongside the content, discounts, and EAP they already have, they get a funded monthly allowance to spend on real wellbeing benefits: therapy, testing kits, coaching, sleep aids, menopause specialists, and more.
