Remote.com Pricing in 2026what EOR, contractors, and payroll actually cost
Remote publishes its prices, which already puts it ahead of most of this category. The problem is that half the articles ranking for this query copied the numbers a year ago and never went back. I pulled the live pricing page before writing this. Here is what Remote charges today, where the widely repeated $599 figure comes from, and how the bill compares to Deel and Oyster line by line.
Six products, six price tags, one invoice
$29
per contractor / mo
Contractor Management
$29
per employee / mo
Global Payroll
From $99
per employee / mo
US PEO
From $325
per contractor / mo
Contractor of Record
$699
per employee / mo
Employer of Record
From $39
per month
Equity
List prices from remote.com/pricing, checked September 2026. EOR shown at the monthly rate.
Remote sells global employment the way a hardware store sells parts. There is no bundle price. You pick the products you need, multiply by headcount, and that is your platform bill. Contractor management is $29 a head. Employer of Record is $699. Between those two numbers sits a 24x difference for what looks, from the outside, like the same thing: paying someone in another country.
That gap is the whole story. It is why the first real pricing question is not "how much is Remote" but "am I hiring a contractor or an employee." If you have not settled that, start with our breakdown of the IRS classification tests and our guide to contractor versus full-time employee, because that single decision moves your Remote bill more than any discount you will ever negotiate.
I price these platforms fairly often when teams ask me how to staff a first hire abroad. Remote consistently reads as the most transparent of the big three on published rates and the most annoying on one specific line item, which I will get to. If you are earlier in the process, our guide to hiring international employees covers the steps that come before you ever open a pricing page.
Start here
Why you keep seeing two different EOR prices
Search for Remote.com pricing and you will find confident articles quoting $599 per employee per month and equally confident ones quoting $699. Both are citing something real. The $699 is the month-to-month rate. The $599 is the same product billed annually. Remote's own EOR page states the monthly price and then the annual price directly underneath it, so this is not a secret. It just gets flattened every time someone writes a roundup from memory.
The difference matters more than it looks. $100 a month per employee is $1,200 a year. On five international hires that is $6,000, which for most seed-stage teams is a real line in the budget rather than a rounding error. If a comparison table told you Remote costs $599 and you are planning to pay monthly, your model is wrong by that amount.
My advice is boring and it works: open the vendor pricing page yourself before you build the spreadsheet. I have now watched this exact thing happen with Greenhouse, Lever, and Workable numbers too, which is why our ATS cost guide carries the same warning. Aggregator pricing pages go stale fast and nobody updates them when a vendor raises a rate.
The number most comparison articles get wrong
Billed monthly
$699
per EOR employee / month
Cancel whenever. No minimums, no contract length, no exclusivity.
Billed annually
$599
per EOR employee / month
Saves $1,200 per employee per year. Cash out the door up front.
Several of the pages ranking for "Remote.com pricing" print $599 as the flat monthly rate. On a team of ten that is a $12,000 gap between the budget and the invoice.
The menu
What each product costs and what you get
The price of each Remote product tracks almost exactly how much legal weight Remote is carrying for you. Read the list that way and the numbers stop looking arbitrary.
Contractor management, $29 per contractor per month. Compliant agreements, invoicing, and payment in a long list of countries. Remote is a payment rail here and nothing more. You are still the client and the contractor is still independent, which is why it is cheap. Contractor Management Plus is $99 and adds indemnity-style protection on top.
Contractor of Record, from $325 per contractor per month. Remote takes on classification risk directly. This exists for the case where you are fairly sure someone is a contractor but the exposure if you are wrong would hurt. Worth pricing against what a misclassification audit costs rather than against the $29 tier.
Employer of Record, $699 per employee per month. The heavy one. Remote legally employs the person in a country where you have no entity, registers for tax, runs local payroll, provides statutory benefits, and absorbs employment liability. Remote advertises 90-plus countries and a two-day average onboarding time. That speed claim is the part I would test against your specific country during the sales process, since coverage depth varies a lot more than coverage count suggests.
Global payroll, $29 per employee per month. Payroll through entities you already own. Remote processes and keeps you compliant but is not the employer. Cheap on paper, with a catch covered below.
US PEO, from $99 per employee per month. Co-employment for US staff, USD only, and it requires a US bank account. If you are weighing this against an EOR arrangement, our explainer on PEO versus EOR covers why they are not interchangeable even when the monthly fee looks similar.
The actual invoice
The platform fee is the smallest number on the bill
Here is the mistake I see most often. A founder budgets $699 a month for an EOR hire in Portugal and treats that as the cost of the hire. It is the cost of the paperwork. The salary is still the salary. On top of that sit employer social contributions and statutory benefits, which run somewhere in the range of 13 to 40 percent of gross depending on the country. Portugal, France, and Italy land high. Singapore and the UK land lower.
Run the math on a $90,000 salary in a country with 25 percent employer burden and you get $112,500 in employment cost plus $8,388 in Remote fees at the monthly rate. The platform fee is about 7 percent of what you actually spend. That ratio is why I think arguing over a $100 monthly rate difference between vendors is usually the wrong fight, and why country selection is the lever that genuinely moves the number.
Remote is clear that it charges no platform, onboarding, or setup fees for HR management, EOR, and contractor management. Global payroll breaks the pattern. That product carries an entity implementation fee and a recurring payroll delivery fee, and Remote does not publish either figure. If payroll is the product you want, get both quoted in writing before you compare the $29 headline to anyone else's. It is the one place where Remote's otherwise honest pricing page goes quiet.
Published list prices, per worker per month
| Line item | Remote | Deel | Oyster |
|---|---|---|---|
| EOR, billed monthly | $699 | $599 | $699 |
| EOR, billed annually | $599 | Quote | Discounted |
| Contractor management | $29 | $49 | $29 |
| Contractor of Record | $325 | $325 | Not sold |
| US PEO | $99 | $125 | Not sold |
| Recruiting / ATS | Not sold | $14 | Not sold |
Vendor pricing pages, checked September 2026. Excludes salary, employer taxes, and statutory benefits.
Head to head
Remote against Deel and Oyster on published rates
The three big global employment platforms have converged on a similar shape and then split on specific lines. Deel lists EOR at $599 per employee per month, which undercuts Remote's monthly rate by $100 and matches Remote's annual rate. Oyster lists $699, the same as Remote, with annual discounts available. So on EOR alone, Deel wins the sticker comparison unless you prepay.
Contractors flip it completely. Remote and Oyster both charge $29 per contractor per month. Deel charges $49. On a team of 20 international contractors that is $4,800 a year in Remote's favor, and it is the cleanest argument for picking Remote that exists today. Our Deel pricing breakdown and the Deel versus Oyster comparison go deeper on each side of that.
One functional gap is worth flagging because it never shows up in pricing tables. Deel sells a recruiting product at $14 per worker per month. Remote and Oyster do not sell anything like it. If your evaluation includes "does this thing help me hire," Remote is answering a different question than you are asking.
The deposit policy is where Remote has a quiet advantage. Several EOR providers ask for a month of gross salary held as security before onboarding. Remote runs a credit check instead and waives the deposit for clients who pass, collecting a reserve only in higher-risk cases. For a company watching runway, not parking a month of salary per hire is worth more than the rate difference people argue about. If you want alternatives beyond these three, our list of Deel alternatives covers the smaller regional players.
Remote earns its fee when
- Most of your international headcount is contractors, where Remote's $29 beats Deel by $20 a head
- You want an EOR that does not ask for a deposit when your credit is sound
- You are hiring into a handful of the 90-plus countries Remote covers directly
- You can prepay annually and want the $599 rate instead of $699
Look elsewhere when
- You need EOR on monthly billing and every dollar counts, where Deel lists $100 less
- You expect the platform to help you find and screen candidates
- Your payroll runs through entities you already own and you need the implementation fee quoted before you commit
- You are hiring only US W-2 employees, where a domestic payroll provider costs a fraction of this
Where it fits
Remote starts working the day your hiring process ends
Every global employment platform is a post-decision tool. Remote activates the moment you know who you want. Contracts, onboarding, payroll, benefits, compliance: all of it happens after the offer is accepted. None of it helps you find the person.
The work before that point is a different job. Sourcing, screening a stack of applications, running structured interviews that produce comparable scores, and picking correctly is what an applicant tracking system is for. Remote and an ATS are complements. One gets you to the offer, the other makes the offer legal and paid.
This matters for budgeting because teams routinely price one and forget the other. If you are hiring your first remote developers, you need a way to run the search and a way to employ the winner. Pricing only the second half is how a hiring plan runs over in month three.
It also matters for process quality. Hiring across time zones exposes every weakness in how you interview, which is the argument our guide to remote hiring best practices makes at length. Paying $699 a month to employ someone you screened badly is an expensive way to learn that lesson.
My read
Is Remote worth the price
The honest answer depends almost entirely on your worker mix. If you are mostly hiring contractors abroad, Remote is the cheapest of the three majors by a margin that compounds, and I would default to it. If you are mostly hiring full employees on monthly billing, Deel's $599 is a real $100 saving per head and Remote has to win on service quality instead of price.
What I would not do is pick on rate alone. The platform fee is roughly 7 percent of total employment cost. A compliance mistake in a country you do not understand costs far more than the spread between these vendors, and SHRM's global HR resources are a reasonable starting point for understanding what you are actually buying protection against. Pick on country coverage and support responsiveness, then negotiate.
One last practical note. Remote states it has no minimums, contract lengths, or exclusivity agreements. Take that at face value and use it. A vendor that will let you leave is a vendor you can push on price, which is rarer in HR software than it should be.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Remote.com cost per month?
Remote prices each product separately. Employer of Record is $699 per employee per month on monthly billing, or $599 per employee per month when you pay annually. Contractor management is $29 per contractor per month, and Contractor Management Plus is $99. Global payroll is $29 per employee per month. US PEO starts at $99 per employee per month, and Contractor of Record starts at $325. There is no single Remote subscription price because you pay per product, per worker.
Is Remote.com EOR $599 or $699?
Both figures are real and they mean different things. $699 per employee per month is the month-to-month rate. $599 is what you pay per employee per month if you commit to annual billing. A lot of comparison articles list $599 as the flat monthly price, which understates the cost by $1,200 per employee per year if you are not prepaying. Check which billing term a quote assumes before you build a budget on it.
Does Remote.com require a security deposit?
Usually not. Remote runs a credit check instead, and clients who pass it onboard without a deposit. If the credit check does not clear, Remote can ask for a reserve payment before onboarding so it can still cover payroll if your account goes unpaid. This is a genuine difference from EOR providers that ask everyone for a month of gross salary up front.
What are the hidden fees with Remote.com?
Remote publishes that there are no platform, onboarding, or setup fees for HR management, EOR, and contractor management. Global payroll is the exception: it carries an entity implementation fee and a recurring payroll delivery fee, and Remote does not publish either number, so you have to get it quoted. Beyond platform fees, the salary, employer taxes, and statutory benefits still sit on top and add roughly 13 to 40 percent depending on the country.
Is Remote.com cheaper than Deel?
It depends which product you buy. On contractors Remote is much cheaper at $29 per contractor per month against Deel's $49. On EOR, Deel's published rate of $599 per employee per month undercuts Remote's $699 monthly rate, and matches Remote only if you prepay annually. Contractor of Record is $325 at both. So a contractor-heavy team saves with Remote and an EOR-heavy team on monthly billing saves with Deel.
Does Remote.com include an applicant tracking system?
No. Remote covers employment after you have picked someone: contracts, payroll, benefits, and compliance. It does not post jobs, manage a candidate pipeline, run interview scorecards, or screen applicants. Deel does sell a recruiting product at $14 per worker per month, which is one of the few real functional gaps between the two. If you need to run the search itself, you need an ATS alongside Remote.
Can you negotiate Remote.com pricing?
The published rates are list prices and they move at volume, same as everywhere else in this category. The annual commitment discount is the one Remote advertises, and it is already worth $100 per employee per month on EOR. Past roughly 20 seats it is worth asking for a rate below the annual number rather than accepting the web price. Remote states it has no minimums, contract lengths, or exclusivity agreements, which gives you more leverage to walk than most enterprise HR contracts do.
Resources & Further Reading
Related Guides
- Deel Pricing: EOR, Contractor & Payroll Costs
The closest line-by-line comparison
- How to Hire International Employees
The process Remote plugs into
- PEO vs EOR: Which One You Need
Why the $99 and $699 tiers are not interchangeable
- Contractor vs Full-Time Employee
The decision that sets your Remote bill
External Sources
- Remote: Official Pricing Page
Every published rate in this article
- Remote: Employer of Record
Where the $699 and $599 rates both appear
- Deel: Official Pricing Page
Source for the comparison column
- Oyster: Official Pricing Page
The third data point on EOR rates
- IRS: Worker Classification Guidance
Contractor versus employee rules
Remote employs them. Something has to find them.
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