Where one vendor becomes cheaper than another

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 2026-10-03. 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