Who publishes an EOR price and who makes you ask

What the published prices look like

The range is wide for what is nominally the same service: a local entity employs your person, runs their payroll, and takes on the compliance risk.

^ Read from each provider's own pricing page on 21 August 2026. Several of these are described as starting prices, and some are conditional on annual billing.

Rippling, Velocity Global (now trading as Pebl) and Globalization Partners publish nothing. G-P's pricing URLs return a 404. Pebl's site describes a flat per-employee monthly model but sends every inquiry to a quote.

What the headline price is not telling you

A price that low is doing something different from a price that high, and the difference is usually in the conditions rather than the number:

• Deposits. Playroll requires a refundable security deposit of roughly one month's salary. Oyster requires a refundable deposit for EOR employees. That is working capital, not a fee, but it is cash you do not have.
• Commitment is the next variable. Horizons publishes $199 a month on monthly billing with no commitment, and $399 a month on an annual commitment for teams of five or more. The cheaper headline and the more expensive one are different products.
• Then check whether the number is monthly or annual. Multiplier's Core plan is $499 monthly or $459 billed annually, and comparing one provider's annual rate against another's monthly rate makes a real difference look bigger than it is.
• Contractor products sold alongside. Contractor management ranges from $2 to $49 a month, but a fully managed contractor-of-record product is a different service at $99 to $400. The two are easy to confuse on a pricing page.

Why the silent ones are silent

Custom quoting is not in itself a warning sign. It is what happens when the price genuinely varies — by country, by volume, by how much of the platform you take — and when the sales motion is enterprise rather than self-serve. It does mean you cannot compare those providers against the published nine without running a procurement process.

It also means a comparison table that shows a price for all fourteen has invented five of them. That is the specific reason this site marks them as not published rather than estimating.

Two providers have changed their name

Horizons now trades as RemotePeople, and Velocity Global now trades as Pebl. Old links redirect. A quote issued under a previous name may not match the page you find today, and a comparison article written a year ago may be pointing at a brand that no longer exists under that name.

What to do with the price

Put it next to the statutory cost rather than on its own. On the country pages the statutory employer contribution is larger than the fee in almost every country here. A provider that is $200 a month cheaper is saving you $2,400 a year; a country whose uplift is ten points higher on a 70,000 euro salary is costing you 7,000 euro.

Reading a pricing page without being misled

Four things are worth checking on any of the nine pages that do publish a number.

Is it a floor or a price? Papaya Global's $650 is described as a starting price for most non-European countries. Skuad's $199 is a starting price with volume discounts. Atlas's $599 is the rate for onboarding one to five employees. A starting price is a different object from a price, and the gap between them is not published.

What is the billing basis? Multiplier's Core plan is $499 on monthly billing and $459 billed annually, and its Growth plan is $559 and $519 on the same basis. Deel publishes $599 on monthly billing with no long-term commitment. Comparing $459 against $599 makes a real difference look roughly twice its size.

Is there a deposit? Playroll requires a refundable security deposit of about one month's salary. Oyster requires one for EOR employees. RemoFirst publishes no setup, onboarding or termination fees and no minimums, which is a genuinely different commercial shape from either.

Which product is the number attached to? Contractor management, at $2 to $49 a month, is payment and paperwork. Contractor of record, at $99 to $400, carries the classification risk. Native Teams publishes $19 for contractor pay and $99 for contractor of record on the same site. Quoting the lower number as though it were the higher one is the most common error in this category, and it is usually accidental.

What we do not know

We do not know what any of these providers actually charges after negotiation, because none of them publishes that and we have not bought from any of them. We do not know the cost of the five that quote on request. And we have not used any of these services, so nothing here is a service quality judgment — it is a record of what each company published on a stated date.

The prices are on the provider page with the source link and date for each. The statutory costs they sit on top of are on the country pages, and the exclusions page covers what neither figure includes.

Who this is not for

If you have already run a procurement process and hold real quotes, published list prices are the weaker information and you should ignore this. This is for the earlier stage, where you are sizing the decision and want to know which providers you can compare without a sales call. It is also not a service comparison: country coverage, benefits administration, support quality and the depth of each provider's own entity network differ far more than the prices do, and none of that is on this page.

Sources

• Published pricing pages, all checked 21 August 2026: Native Teams, RemoFirst, Skuad, RemotePeople, formerly Horizons, Playroll, Multiplier, Deel, Atlas, Papaya Global, Remote, Oyster HR.
• No published EOR price found, checked 21 August 2026: Rippling, Pebl, formerly Velocity Global, Globalization Partners.