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EOR provider comparison · verified 2026-08-30

Deel vs Remote: the $100 monthly gap is not the whole decision.

Deel currently publishes EOR pricing from $599 per employee per month. Remote publishes a $699 standard price. That establishes a public service-fee gap; it does not establish your final invoice, country execution or exit cost.

The short version: on current public pages, Deel posts a lower starting fee and a larger stated EOR country count. Remote makes more specific public statements about no employee minimum, no EOR platform/onboarding/setup fee and no upfront deposit. These are shortlist facts, not a final winner.

Official public information, put on one basis

“Not assessed” does not mean “not available.” It means we did not find an equivalent statement in the official sources checked for this comparison.

Comparison itemDeelRemote
Published EOR service fee$599 from / employee / month$699 standard / employee / month
Provider-stated EOR coverage130+ countries (provider-stated EOR coverage)90+ countries (provider-stated EOR coverage)
Contractor management$49 per contractor/month$29 per contractor/month
Contractor of Record Contractor of Record $325/month Contractor of Record from $325/month
Public baseline commercial termsMonth-to-month flexibility; site says no long-term commitment, while local employment law still appliesNo employee minimum; no EOR platform, onboarding or setup fee; no upfront deposit
Public FX statementSays it offers competitive exchange rates; quote still needs markup and timing statedItems outside the preferred billing currency use the Remote FX rate

Turn the public monthly fees into an annual service-fee snapshot

This is arithmetic, assuming unchanged headcount for twelve months at the current published monthly fees. It excludes salary, employer charges, benefits, FX and negotiated discounts, and is not an actual budget.

Employees active all year1
Deel
$7,188
Remote
$8,388
Published fee difference
$1,200
Employees active all year5
Deel
$35,940
Remote
$41,940
Published fee difference
$6,000
Employees active all year10
Deel
$71,880
Remote
$83,880
Published fee difference
$12,000

Remote published fee minus Deel published starting fee

Four things that can actually reverse the decision

  1. 01

    The employing chain in the target country

    Who is the contractual employer, are partners involved, and who handles payroll, HR and escalation? A global country count cannot answer the operating question for your one country.

  2. 02

    Equivalent benefits and employer costs

    Give both providers the same salary, start date and benefit tier, then require statutory and optional costs separately. Do not treat the service-fee difference as the invoice difference.

  3. 03

    Funding currency, FX and cutoff

    A multi-currency payroll can make the $100 headline gap secondary. Ask both providers to replay a sample invoice using the currency you will actually fund.

  4. 04

    Offboarding or moving to your entity

    Confirm notice, termination, deposit release, data export and contract transfer. One difficult exit can cost more than several months of platform-fee difference.

RFP / RFQ

Send this like-for-like quote sheet to both providers

Ask each provider to fill every line instead of returning one estimated total. Unknown amounts should stay marked as unknown; a verbal sales promise should not fill a contract blank.

  1. Legal name of the local contractual employer and every subcontracted operator
  2. Service fee by month/year, commitment, discount and price-change clause
  3. Salary, statutory employer contributions and mandatory benefits
  4. Optional benefits: employer/employee share, waiting periods and continuation
  5. Deposit, prefunding, payroll cutoff and consequences of late funding
  6. Billing currency, FX-rate source, markup and conversion timestamp
  7. Onboarding timeline, work-authorisation boundary and delay ownership
  8. Payroll-error correction SLA, escalation path and liability cap
  9. All termination, offboarding, data-export and entity-transition costs

Official sources used on this page

Prices and product scope change. Facts on this page were checked on 2026-08-30; reopen the official pages and preserve the quote version before buying.

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