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Hire with Columbus vs Native Teams
Where Hire with Columbus and Native Teams can employ
On our coverage data, Hire with Columbus runs an EOR in 193 countries and Native Teams in 77. They overlap in 76, so for 39% of the 194 countries either one covers, you can pick on price and service rather than reach. The difference sits in 117 countries only Hire with Columbus covers and 1 country only Native Teams covers. If your next hire is in one of them, that decides it.
Only Hire with Columbus 117 countries
- Americas
- Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela
- Europe
- Åland Islands, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Vatican City
- Africa
- Angola, Benin, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Asia
- Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives, Myanmar, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates
Only Native Teams 1 country
- Asia
- Sri Lanka
Own entity or local partner
An EOR either employs your hire through its own local company or through a partner it contracts. With its own entity, the provider controls payroll and compliance directly; with a partner, a third company is the legal employer.
Hire with Columbus does not publicly name its employing entities, so we cannot show where it employs directly.
Native Teams publicly documents its own employing entity in 2 countries (United Kingdom and Latvia).
Only entities with a public source (a registry record or the provider’s own legal documents) are counted. A provider can have more entities than it publishes.
What the fee difference adds up to
Native Teams's published EOR fee is $80 lower per employee per month. That is $960 a year for one hire and $9,600 a year for a team of ten, before any volume discount either provider negotiates.
| Employees | Hire with Columbus | Native Teams |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2,148 | $1,188 |
| 5 | $10,740 | $5,940 |
| 10 | $21,480 | $11,880 |
| 25 | $53,700 | $29,700 |
| 50 | $107,400 | $59,400 |
Starting fees only, excluding salary and employer contributions. The matrix above lists the setup, offboarding, deposit and FX fees each provider discloses. Model a full hire in the cost calculator.
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Hire with Columbus vs Native Teams on Reddit
On Reddit, Native Teams draws the highest share of negative mentions (26% of 27); Hire with Columbus the lowest (0% of 10). Approved mentions only. We screen real community mentions for relevance, then label sentiment, separate from our Select Score.
| Provider | Mentions | First-hand | Positive | Neutral | Negative | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hire with Columbus | 10 | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | Mostly positive |
| Native Teams | 27 | 15 | 33% | 41% | 26% | Mostly positive |
Most-discussed topics: Hire with Columbus — pricing · Native Teams — pricing
Widest coverage in this comparison (193 countries).
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Hire with Columbus vs Native Teams: your questions
Which is better, Hire with Columbus or Native Teams?
On our normalized dataset, Hire with Columbus has the highest Select Score (70/100). The right pick still depends on your priorities, which the matrix above breaks down row by row.
Which is cheapest?
Native Teams has the lowest starting price in this comparison. Pricing is normalized to a per-employee monthly figure.
How is the Select Score calculated?
Every provider runs the same weighted model across coverage, pricing, compliance, platform and support. See the methodology page for the full formula.