Dataset current to Oct 2026

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Contractor Payments & Employer of Record

Fifteen platforms for paying contractors abroad and employing staff through an employer of record, compared on what two defined engagements cost for a year rather than on a per-seat headline.

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The comparison

15 providers. Sort any column; the sorted or filtered view has its own address and can be linked to.

Contractor price basis

15 providers

Every figure here was checked against the provider’s own page in Oct 2026, except where a date is shown against the figure. Figures are rechecked at least every 90 days; one past that is marked “Recheck due”.

date checked against the provider’s own pagecalculated; oldest date among its inputspast its recheck window

Segments show the tier reached, not the score:BasicStandardStrongExcellent

Both headline columns are calculated, not quoted: the per-seat price multiplied out to a year, on the billing basis the provider states. A provider that publishes only its annual-billing price will look cheaper than one quoting month-to-month; the basis column is there so a reader can see that. The rubric weights the contractor scenario higher because it is the service most companies use first.

Quote-only: platforms without a full published price

7 providers. These publish a price for one service but not the other, a price in euros only, or no price at all. Without both figures in dollars there is nothing to rank them on, so they are listed, not scored.

Every fact here was checked against the provider’s own page in Oct 2026. Figures are rechecked at least every 90 days; one past that is marked “Recheck due”.

Scoring weights

rubric 2026.1

  • Five contractors, one year60%
  • One EOR employee, one year40%

Set once per vertical and versioned. Changing a weight is a logged version bump, not routine upkeep — methodology.

Verification state

Dated fields in this table
75
Oldest check
Sep 2026
Most recent check
Oct 2026
Recheck window
90 days
Past that window
0

Put your own numbers in

The same fees as the table above, worked out for your situation.

Ranked for a specific question

The same verified data, ordered by the figure that answers one decision rather than by the overall score.

Guides

One question each, answered in the first sixty words from the figures in this table.

Scope

What the figures cover, and what is deliberately absent — an omission a reader cannot see looks like an oversight.

What this table covers

  • Every price is the per-seat monthly figure on the provider's own pricing page, in US dollars, read on the date stamped against it.
  • The two headline columns price defined engagements: 5 contractors managed for twelve months, and one employee employed through the platform's employer of record for twelve months. The EOR figure is the platform's fee only.
  • The billing-basis columns say what each price assumes. Several providers publish only the figure that applies on annual billing, or a 'starting from' floor, and the totals inherit that basis rather than adjusting it.

What it leaves out, and why

  • Salary, employer taxes and benefits under an EOR arrangement. The platform passes these through at cost and does not set them.
  • Fees a contractor pays to receive money, and the exchange rate on payouts. These are rarely on a pricing page and vary by country and method.
  • Implementation, add-on and compliance fees that a pricing page mentions without pricing. They are noted in the product summary and excluded from every total.
  • Country counts as a scored figure. Each provider counts differently; the published number is shown but forms no part of any score.
  • Providers that publish a price for only one of the two services, or for neither, or in euros only. They are listed below the table with what they do publish.

Every figure above is dated to the last time it was checked against the provider’s own pricing page, not to when this page was published. See methodology for how scores are calculated from those figures.