What payroll vendors publish about their prices
No vendor in this dataset publishes all six of the things an employer needs to work out a monthly bill. Two of the 35 publish six, which is the most anyone publishes; the median vendor publishes four.
The six are counted below. Each is a yes or no about the vendor's own published pages — not about the price, the product, or the company.
The six items
| Item | Counted as published when | Vendors publishing it |
|---|---|---|
| A figure at all | The pricing page carries a list price, a published rule or a public calculator, rather than only a lower bound or a request for a quote. | 22 of 35 |
| The base fee | A monthly charge that does not move with headcount is stated as a number. | 20 of 35 |
| The per-employee fee | A per-person charge, or a published band table, is stated as a number. | 18 of 35 |
| The setup fee | The one-off charge to start is stated, including when it is stated as nil. | 16 of 35 |
| The contract minimum | How long you are committed for is stated, including when it is stated as none. | 16 of 35 |
| What a plan includes | At least one of tax calculation, tax filing, direct deposit, year-end forms, multi-state pay, off-cycle runs and contractor payments is stated as included, an add-on, or not included. | 21 of 35 |
Vendor by vendor
Ordered by count, then alphabetically. A vendor that publishes little is not thereby expensive: several of the quote-only vendors may well be cheaper than the ones below them here. We cannot say, which is the point.
| Vendor | Pricing page | A figure at all | The base fee | The per-employee fee | The setup fee | The contract minimum | What a plan includes | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onfolk See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | 6 |
| Xero See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | 6 |
| Employment Hero See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | 5 |
| OnPay See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | yes | 5 |
| Roll by ADP See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | yes | yes | 5 |
| Sage Payroll See official pricing | Published formula or tiers | yes | yes | — | yes | yes | yes | 5 |
| Staffology See official pricing | Published formula or tiers | yes | — | yes | yes | yes | yes | 5 |
| Wave Payroll See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | yes | — | yes | 5 |
| Breathe See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | — | yes | yes | — | 4 |
| CharlieHR See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | — | yes | yes | — | 4 |
| Gusto See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Homebase See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Justworks See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Patriot Software See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Paycor See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| QuickBooks Payroll See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Remote See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Square Payroll See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| Zoho Payroll See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 4 |
| BrightPay See official pricing | Public pricing calculator | yes | — | — | yes | yes | — | 3 |
| Papaya Global See official pricing | Starting price only | — | yes | yes | — | — | yes | 3 |
| PeopleHR See official pricing | Starting price only | — | — | yes | yes | yes | — | 3 |
| QuickBooks Payroll Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | yes | yes | yes | 3 |
| SurePayroll See official pricing | Published list price | yes | yes | — | — | — | yes | 3 |
| Deel See official pricing | Published list price | yes | — | — | — | — | yes | 2 |
| IRIS Payroll Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | yes | yes | — | 2 |
| Moorepay Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | yes | yes | — | 2 |
| PayFit Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | yes | yes | — | 2 |
| Pento Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | yes | yes | 2 |
| Zelt See official pricing | Starting price only | — | — | — | yes | yes | — | 2 |
| ADP RUN Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Paychex Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Paylocity Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Rippling Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| TriNet Request a quote | Quote on request | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
How to read the count
It is a count of published items, so it moves when a vendor changes its pricing page, and it can move down as well as up. It is recomputed on every build from the same dataset the rest of the site uses, and the price history records the reads behind it. It is not a rating, a score out of ten dressed up, or an opinion about value: a vendor can publish all six figures and still be the wrong choice, and a vendor that publishes none may be the right one.
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
- Where one vendor becomes cheaper than another
- 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.
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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