Playroll Pricing

Playroll publishes $399/employee/month for EOR. That is genuinely lower than Deel ($599) and Remote ($599), and it is also genuinely incomplete as a budgeting number.

Your actual monthly cost per employee will be $399 plus employer taxes and social contributions (15-45% of salary depending on country), plus a refundable deposit locking up one month of gross salary, plus FX costs that Playroll describes as “competitive” without publishing specific spreads.

The $399 is roughly 5% of your total monthly cost for a mid-salary European hire. The other 95% is where procurement conversations get difficult.

We verified every published cost component, modelled a worked scenario, and compared Playroll against seven other providers reviewed here.

This page gives you the numbers your Finance team needs to build an accurate business case.

What does Playroll charge?

Playroll publishes three products with flat monthly pricing: EOR at $399/employee/month, contractor management at $35/contractor/month, and global payroll starting from $2.07/employee/month. There are no setup fees, no offboarding fees, and no minimum employee commitments.

The table below covers every published line item.

Source: Playroll pricing pages, verified April 2026. Prices subject to change.

At $399/month for EOR, Playroll undercuts Deel and Remote by $200/employee/month.

For a team of 10, that is $24,000/year in platform fees alone before you factor in any differences in deposits, FX, or employer contributions.

The contractor management fee of $35/month is also competitive. Deel charges $49/month for the equivalent service, and Oyster charges $29/month.

Playroll sits in the middle of the range without adding transaction fees or per-payment charges.

What does Playroll’s fee include?

The $399 EOR fee covers legal employment through a local entity, compliant employment contracts, payroll processing and salary disbursement, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding and filing, onboarding and offboarding, and platform access including expense management, leave tracking, and time management tools.

You also get a dedicated Customer Success Manager and a dedicated Employee Success Manager. Support is available via email, WhatsApp, phone, Microsoft Teams, and video calls.

That level of support inclusion is notable because several competitors charge extra for dedicated account management or restrict it to enterprise tiers.

The inclusion list is broad for the price point. The question, as always, is what sits outside it.

What costs sit on top of Playroll’s fee?

Three cost categories will appear on your invoice above the $399 platform fee. None of them are hidden, but none of them are prominent in sales conversations either.

Employer taxes and social contributions. These are pass-through costs set by each country’s government, not Playroll charges. In Germany, employer contributions add roughly 40% on top of gross salary.

In France, closer to 45%. In the UK, employer NICs add approximately 13.8%. In India, around 15%.

Your first invoice will include these. If your Finance team has budgeted only the $399 platform fee per employee, the reconciliation conversation will be uncomfortable.

The deposit. Playroll requires a fully refundable security deposit equivalent to one month of gross salary per employee. For a team of 10 employees averaging $6,000/month gross, that is $60,000 in locked working capital.

The deposit is returned after offboarding, but the timeline for refund is not publicly specified.

Remote does not require a deposit at all, while Deel quotes one by country rather than publishing a figure.

Playroll’s one-month deposit is at least published up front, which makes it more predictable than a by-quote arrangement, but it is still material enough to flag to your treasury team before contract signature.

FX costs. Playroll processes payroll in 60+ currencies and describes its FX rates as “competitive” and “flat.” The specific spread above mid-market is not published.

We could not verify the exact FX margin from public documentation.

This matters. For a 15-person international team with $150,000 in monthly salary disbursements, even a 1% FX spread adds $18,000/year. Ask Playroll for their specific FX margin during procurement.

If they will not commit it in writing, build in a conservative planning assumption.

How does Playroll compare on price?

At $399/month, Playroll sits in the mid-to-low range of the EOR market. It undercuts Deel, Remote, and Oyster by $200-300/month, matches Velocity Global’s lower tier, and costs more than Remofirst at $199/month.

The deposit and FX terms are where the real differentiation happens.

Source: Provider pricing pages and third-party analyses, verified April 2026. All prices exclude employer taxes, salary, and FX costs.

For a team of 20 employees, choosing Playroll over Deel saves $48,000/year in platform fees. Choosing Remofirst saves a further $48,000, but Remofirst covers fewer countries and has a thinner support model. The savings are real.

So are the trade-offs.

Playroll’s deposit (one month gross salary) is published up front, unlike Deel’s by-country quote, and higher than Remote’s (zero).

For a budget-conscious buyer who also wants to minimise locked capital, Remote’s no-deposit model combined with its $599 platform fee creates a genuinely different total-cost profile.

The right choice depends on whether your Finance team cares more about monthly cash flow or capital lock-up.

Is Playroll worth the cost?

Playroll is worth the cost when you need broad country coverage (180+ countries), want to pay less than the Deel/Remote tier, and can tolerate a one-month salary deposit per employee.

The value case is strongest for mid-market buyers hiring 5-30 employees across multiple countries. At that scale, Playroll’s $399 fee saves $2,400-6,000/year per employee compared to Deel, Remote, and Oyster.

For a 15-person international team, that is $36,000-90,000 in annual platform fee savings.

Playroll is not worth the cost when your team is small enough that Remofirst at $199/month serves the same countries you need.

If you are hiring in three countries and do not need visa support or 180-country coverage, you are paying for breadth you will not use.

The other consideration is track record. Playroll was founded in 2021 and is backed by VAT IT Group, which brings 25 years of global compliance infrastructure. That backing is material.

But Deel and Remote have significantly larger customer bases, more independent review data, and longer operational histories.

If your compliance team weights track record heavily, that is a legitimate factor in the cost-value equation.

For the full platform assessment, see our Playroll. For alternatives, see best EOR services.

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How we verified Playroll pricing

Whichapp is an independent comparison site. We do not sell EOR, payroll, or contractor services.

We may earn a commission from provider links. This does not affect our editorial judgement.

This review drew on Playroll’s public pricing pages (EOR, contractor management, and global payroll), help centre documentation, and third-party pricing analyses including G2 review data (2025-2026).

We modelled cost scenarios using published rates and estimated pass-through costs based on country-specific employer tax data.

FX spread estimates are based on industry benchmarks because Playroll does not publish specific margins.

Playroll was not tested as a live product. Cost estimates are based on published information and may differ from negotiated pricing.

Last reviewed: April 2026