Payroll + HR · United Kingdom

Breathe pricing: what it actually costs per employee at 5, 10, 25 and 50

At 10 employees, the cheapest plan Breathe publishes is Micro: £24 a month — £2.40 per employee per month, base fee included.

Price statusPublished list price
Prices read onchecked 2026-09-07
Last recorded changenone recorded since we started checking

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Your headcount

No vendor we hold publishes a cheaper monthly total at this headcount.

On its cheapest published plan, Breathe costs £24 a month for 10 employees, which is £2.40 per employee per month.

What the vendor publishes

Source: Breathe pricing page. checked 2026-09-07
Plan	Base / month	Per employee / month	Eligibility as published	What the vendor states
Micro	£24	—	From 1 employees. Up to 10 employees	"£24"/month for 1-10 employees. Pricing is "per business account and not per person". Annual billing ~15% cheaper. HR only — no payroll processing.
Starter	£44	—	From 11 employees. Up to 20 employees	"£44"/month for 11-20 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Regular	£99	—	From 21 employees. Up to 50 employees	"£99"/month for 21-50 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Pro	£175	—	From 51 employees. Up to 100 employees	"£175"/month for 51-100 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Premium	£419	—	From 101 employees. Up to 150 employees	"£419"/month for 101-150 employees. Annual billing ~10% cheaper.
Plus	£579	—	From 151 employees. Up to 200 employees	"£579"/month for 151-200 employees. Annual billing ~10% cheaper.

What that works out at per employee

Vendors quote a per-employee fee and a base fee separately. What you actually pay per employee is both of them divided by your headcount, so the smaller your team, the further the real figure sits above the advertised one. This table is Breathe's published prices put through that division.

Effective cost per employee per month, by headcount. Computed from the published base fee and per-employee fee — not a figure the vendor publishes. “n/a” means the plan is not available at that headcount. Contractor-only plans are excluded — they do not run employee payroll. checked 2026-09-07
Plan	1	5	10	25	50	100	250
Micro	£24.00	£4.80	£2.40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Starter	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Regular	n/a	n/a	n/a	£3.96	£1.98	n/a	n/a
Pro	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£1.75	n/a
Premium	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Plus	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Columns are employee counts. Scroll sideways on a phone.

monthly total = base fee + (per-employee fee x headcount) effective PEPM = monthly total / headcount annual total = monthly total x 12 + setup fee three-year cost = annual total x 3

No other adjustment is applied. We do not add estimated tax-filing fees, discounts, or promotional pricing. The full method is at Method.

Where the base fee stops mattering

Against CharlieHR — the cheapest published alternative at 10 employees — the ordering turns over at 5 employees: below that CharlieHR has the lower monthly total, from there Breathe does. That is arithmetic on two published prices, not a recommendation; the comparison shows both at every headcount.

Who this suits, and who it does not

If price is the only thing you are deciding on, Breathe is the cheapest published option we hold for payroll + hr in this market at 10 employees.
If your headcount is under 5, the base fee of £24 dominates the bill. Check the per-employee column at your actual size before comparing anything.
If you are not ready to decide, wait. Published prices change without notice and the figures here are only as current as 2026-09-07. Confirm on the vendor's own page before you sign.

Where each figure comes from

Every figure above is either a number Breathe publishes or a gap it leaves. Field by field: what we hold, which of the vendor's own pages it was read from, the day it was read, and the vendor's wording where we have it. Nothing in this table comes from a third party, and no blank is filled with an estimate.

Show the source of every figure on this page (25 fields)

Default source: https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/hr-software/hr-software-prices. checked 2026-09-07
Plan	Field	What we hold	Read from	Read on	The vendor's wording
—	Free trial	14 days	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Micro	Monthly base fee	£24	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Micro	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Micro	Eligibility	From 1 employees. Up to 10 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Micro	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£24"/month for 1-10 employees. Pricing is "per business account and not per person". Annual billing ~15% cheaper. HR only — no payroll processing.
Starter	Monthly base fee	£44	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Starter	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Starter	Eligibility	From 11 employees. Up to 20 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Starter	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£44"/month for 11-20 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Regular	Monthly base fee	£99	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Regular	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Regular	Eligibility	From 21 employees. Up to 50 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Regular	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£99"/month for 21-50 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Pro	Monthly base fee	£175	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Pro	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Pro	Eligibility	From 51 employees. Up to 100 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Pro	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£175"/month for 51-100 employees. Annual billing ~15% cheaper.
Premium	Monthly base fee	£419	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Premium	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Premium	Eligibility	From 101 employees. Up to 150 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Premium	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£419"/month for 101-150 employees. Annual billing ~10% cheaper.
Plus	Monthly base fee	£579	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Plus	Per-employee fee	Not published on the vendor's page	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Plus	Eligibility	From 151 employees. Up to 200 employees	the pricing page	2026-09-07
Plus	Conditions on the price	—	the pricing page	2026-09-07	"£579"/month for 151-200 employees. Annual billing ~10% cheaper.

The same record, for every vendor, is the sources column of plans.csv on the data page.

Where to check this yourself

Go to Breathe and open its pricing page. Everything above comes from https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/hr-software/hr-software-prices, read on 2026-09-07.

Written by Kaz, independent publisher.

Page last updated: 2026-10-03. Sources: vendor pricing pages only. Figures checked between 2026-08-20 and 2026-10-03. I have not used these products. Nothing here is a personal test result.

Ranking method and formulas: Method. Listing position on this site is not for sale.

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