Deel Pricing Plans in 2026

How much is a Deel?

Deel prices by how you engage someone, not by company size. Employer of Record is $599 per employee per month. Global payroll is $29 per employee per month. Contractor management is now free on Deel's current pricing — the $49 figure still circulating on review sites is a legacy tier.

The EOR fee is the platform charge only. It does not include salary, employer taxes or statutory benefits.

What EOR actually costs once taxes are in

This is the number nobody publishes. On top of the $599 platform fee you pay the salary, plus employer contributions that run 13% to 40% depending on country.

A $70,000 hire in a low employer-cost country (~13%): $5,833 salary + about $758 employer costs + $599 platform = roughly $7,190 a month. The same hire in a high employer-cost country (~40%): $5,833 + about $2,333 + $599 = roughly $8,765 a month.

Same salary, same vendor, $1,575 a month apart — the country moves your total far more than the platform fee does, and Deel's cut is only 7-8% either way.

Reported negotiated rates fall to $350-$500 per employee per month once you pass roughly 20-50 workers, so the list price is a starting position.

How much does Deel charge for contractors?

Contractor management is free on the current plan. What you pay instead is on the money movement: an FX markup of roughly 0.6% to 2% on cross-currency payments, which on $50,000 a month of contractor payouts is $300–$1,000.

If your contractors are paid in their local currency, that spread is your real Deel bill. Compare it against your bank's rate before assuming free means free.

The fees that are not on the pricing page

Three recur in buyer reports. A one-month salary deposit held per EOR employee, which is a working-capital cost rather than a fee. Country-specific surcharges of $50–$150 a month in some jurisdictions. And the FX markup above.

Together these commonly inflate the effective platform cost by 30–60% over the headline $599.

Is Deel cheaper than ADP?

They solve different problems, and the comparison usually means "for global hiring." For that, Deel is generally cheaper and much faster to start — ADP's global offering is built for large enterprises with existing entities.

For domestic US payroll, Deel is not the cheaper option and is not really the point. Deel earns its money when you are hiring somewhere you have no legal entity. If you have entities, EOR is the wrong instrument entirely and $599 a head is a poor trade.