Where one vendor becomes cheaper than another
Of the 39 vendor pairs in this dataset that can be compared at all — same market, same category, both publishing a computable price — 13 change places somewhere between 1 and 250 employees. The other 26 do not: one of the two is cheaper at every headcount.
Each row below is the headcount at which the cheaper of two published prices changes. A pair appears more than once when a banded price sends the ordering back the other way further up. It is division, not a recommendation, and it holds only for the plans each vendor publishes today.
Every crossover in the dataset
Why there are so few
Two prices of the same shape never cross: if one vendor has both a higher base fee and a higher per-person fee, it costs more at 1 employee and more at 250. A crossover needs the two to be shaped differently — a large base fee with a small per-person fee against the reverse — and most pairs in this market are not. That is the useful half of the finding: for most pairs, the answer does not depend on your headcount at all.
What it does not mean
A crossover says which of two published monthly totals is lower at a headcount. It says nothing about which product does the job, what the vendor charges for the things it does not publish, or what either would quote you. Put your own headcount into the calculator and read what the published figure leaves out before treating any of it as a budget.
Every figure on this page is computed from prices the vendors publish themselves, read between 2026-08-20 and 2026-09-06. Nothing here is a rating: we have not used these products and we do not score them. Where a vendor publishes nothing, it is absent rather than estimated.
Related
- How much of a payroll bill the base fee is
- What payroll vendors publish about their prices
- The dataset itself: CSV, JSON and how to cite it
- How these figures are produced
- The calculator, with your own headcount
- Every vendor, and what each one publishes
Written by Kaz, independent publisher. No commercial relationship with the companies named unless it is listed on the disclosure page.
Page last updated: 2026-09-07. Sources: vendor pricing pages only. Figures checked between 2026-08-20 and 2026-09-06. 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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