Remote People Review (2026)EOR From $199 an Employee a Month

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 9 Oct 2026

(2026-08-07, read on their own pricing page; re-verified unchanged on 2026-10-06 and again on 2026-10-09) Priced per service rather than per plan, and every figure is a floor. Employer of Record: EOR Flex from $199 per employee a month, billed monthly with no commitment, no setup fee and no minimum headcount; EOR Plus from $399 with an annual commitment, a dedicated account manager and a minimum of 5 employees.

Contractor of Record from $199 a month including misclassification cover; plain contractor management from $29. US PEO from $99 per employee a month and US payroll from $29. Global payroll from $25 per employee a month, with volume discounts quoted above 50 employees. Recruitment is charged on salary instead: Recruit + EOR is 2% of annual salary spread over twelve months, Global Recruitment 20% payable on the candidate’s first day, and Executive Search 25%.

Legal help is $199 an hour with no retainer. Benefits, equity, incorporation, entity management and visas are all quote-only. The pricing FAQ (read 9 October 2026) says EOR Plus requires no security deposit, and that for EOR Flex the deposit amount and refund conditions are confirmed in your proposal. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

Category context: HR & People. Across the 13 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $14 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Remote People’s entry price of $199 a month sits above that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

Our Deel dossier has EOR from $599 per employee a month against Remote People’s $199, contractor of record $325 against $199, US PEO $125 against $99 and contractor management $49 against $29. If those hold at your headcount and in your country, the gap is large enough to matter. Two things stop that from being the whole picture. First, every figure on the page carries a ‘from’ and not one country-level rate is published.

EOR pricing moves with statutory employer cost, which varies enormously between, say, Portugal and Brazil, so the number you are quoted for your actual hire is the only one that counts. Ask for it in writing before you compare anything. Second, and larger: the recruitment services are priced as a share of salary, and that dwarfs the subscription. Global Recruitment at 20% of annual salary on an $80,000 hire is $16,000 due on day one — more than six years of EOR Flex for the same person.

Executive Search at 25% is more again. Recruit + EOR at 2% over twelve months is a different animal entirely and is the one worth understanding, because it is the only route where the fee is spread rather than paid up front. Nothing on the pricing page puts these side by side, so it is easy to read the $199 and miss where the money actually goes. One structural note: EOR Plus needs a minimum of five employees and an annual commitment, so a small team comparing tiers is really only choosing Flex.

Watch the video review

The video version of this review, from our YouTube channel.

⚡ Short on time? Watch the 30-second verdict Short.

What Remote People does

Employer of Record and global hiring in 150+ countries. Recruitment is charged separately at 20-25% of annual salary.

What buyers report about Remote People

Hands-on: not tested by usDocumented by the vendor: 3 features, read 2026-10-09Reported by buyers: Trustpilot, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Remote People ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

When the paid plan is worth it

The tier choice here is smaller than it looks. EOR Flex at $199 per employee a month is monthly billing, no commitment, no setup fee and no minimum headcount; EOR Plus at $399 wants an annual commitment and a minimum of five employees and gives you a dedicated account manager and no deposit. Below five people, Flex is the only real option, so the upgrade question does not arise until you are already scaling.

What neither tier settles is the two costs that dominate. Statutory employer cost is country-specific and not one country-level rate is published, so your actual monthly bill for a hire in Brazil is not the bill for the same hire in Portugal, and only a written quote tells you which. And recruitment is priced on salary, not per seat: Global Recruitment is 20% of annual salary on the candidate's first day, Executive Search 25%, while Recruit + EOR is 2% spread over twelve months.

On an $80,000 hire that 20% is $16,000 due immediately, which no subscription tier changes.

How to actually use Remote People

The vendor sets out a three-step division of labour: you choose the person, sign the offer and approve one monthly invoice; they do the rest. Concretely, once you send who, where and the salary, they promise a same-day cost breakdown covering salary, employer contributions and their flat fee. Then a compliant local contract within 24 hours, including probation, notice, working time and a thirteenth month where the country requires one, and onboarding within 48 hours.

Background checks, right-to-work verification and a classification review are closed before day one, IP is assigned in writing before work starts, and a pre-configured laptop ships in three to five days. Afterwards it is one invoice a month, with payslips, expenses, stipends and time off in the dashboard and benefits administration at no extra fee. If you are moving from another provider, EOR Switch is quoted rather than listed and carries a stated two-week migration.

Remote People vs Deel, side by side

Both columns price the same service, Employer of Record for one employee, from each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in each column. We do not average them into a score.

Remote People →

What it costs

EOR Flex from $199 per employee a month, billed monthly with no commitment

Price read on

7 Aug 2026

The catch

Every rate is a 'from' price with no country-level figure, and recruitment fees charged as a share of salary can dwarf the subscription.

Best for

small and mid-size teams hiring a handful of people abroad who want to pay monthly, keep the option to stop, and not carry a five-employee minimum.

Deel →

What it costs

EOR from $599 per employee a month; final quotes come through sales

Price read on

17 Aug 2026

The catch

Every price is a ‘starting at’ and every button says ‘book a demo’ — the real bill depends on countries, benefits and add-ons, and only firms up in a sales conversation.

Best for

companies hiring internationally without local entities — contractors paid compliantly in 150+ countries, or full EOR employment where you need someone on the ground fast

Both names above are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. Neither changes what this table says.

The natural comparison is Deel — the comparison worth doing, and our Deel dossier makes it checkable. On published floors: EOR $199 against $599 a month, contractor of record $199 against $325, US PEO $99 against $125, contractor management $29 against $49. Remote People is cheaper on every line we can compare. What Deel has is scale and a product surface that goes well beyond employment — and, in fairness, both are demo-led at the point where it matters, so neither publishes what your particular hire will actually cost. Get a written quote from both for the same country and the same salary; that is the only comparison that survives contact with reality. Our Remote People figures were read on 2026-08-07, the Deel figures are dated in that dossier..

Visit Remote People →

Frequently asked questions

Is there a deposit, and when do I get it back?

Plan for one unless you are on EOR Plus. The pricing page (read 6 October 2026) lists 'zero deposit required' only under EOR Plus, the $399 annual plan for teams of 5+; EOR Flex at $199 lists no setup fee and no lock-in; the pricing FAQ (read 9 October 2026) says its deposit amount and refund conditions are confirmed in your proposal. Remote People's help centre says employment deposits are calculated as one month of the employee's gross income and are issued as a debit note, not a service invoice. The unused part comes back within 30 calendar days, but that clock starts only once the employee's final payment has been made, final payroll is confirmed and every termination matter is settled, not on the last working day. Where a country runs an extra payroll after termination (Italy is their example) or bonuses and commissions are paid later, that can add months. Whether every Flex hire needs a deposit is not stated per plan: not confirmed.

What do I keep paying after someone leaves, or while they are on leave?

Employer contributions are billed one month in arrears, so a final invoice arrives the month after the last working day with the statutory costs for that final month, plus items such as an unused-vacation payout. The monthly service fee stops: a service-fee invoice for the month after employment ends is cancelled. During maternity, paternity or parental leave it does not stop. The help centre states that the monthly service fee continues in every country because the employment contract stays active, with any reduction decided case by case in writing. Cancel an onboarding before the start date and no service fee applies if no employment relationship was established, with any deposit refunded within 30 days. Read in Remote People's help centre on 6 October 2026.

Is this a hands-on review of Remote People?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.

Others in this category

Reviewed hr & people tools that share ground with Remote People — comparable in what they do, not drop-in swaps:

DeelOysterEmployment HeroNiural AIPapaya Globalall 20 reviews →