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Playroll vs RemoFirst
Where Playroll and RemoFirst can employ
On our coverage data, Playroll runs an EOR in 168 countries and RemoFirst in 193. They overlap in 155, so for 75% of the 206 countries either one covers, you can pick on price and service rather than reach. The difference sits in 13 countries only Playroll covers and 38 countries only RemoFirst covers. If your next hire is in one of them, that decides it.
Only Playroll 13 countries
- Americas
- Bahamas, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique
- Europe
- Russia
- Asia
- Iraq, Kuwait, Mongolia, Oman, Sri Lanka
- Oceania
- Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga
Only RemoFirst 38 countries
- Americas
- Anguilla, Barbados, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, Greenland, Grenada, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
- Europe
- Åland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Monaco, North Macedonia, San Marino, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Vatican City
- Africa
- British Indian Ocean Territory, DR Congo, Eswatini, Guinea, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Western Sahara
- Asia
- Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Palestine, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste
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.
Playroll publicly documents its own employing entity in 2 countries (United Kingdom and South Africa).
RemoFirst names a local partner as the employer in 34 countries.
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
RemoFirst's published EOR fee is $200 lower per employee per month. That is $2,400 a year for one hire and $24,000 a year for a team of ten, before any volume discount either provider negotiates.
| Employees | Playroll | RemoFirst |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4,788 | $2,388 |
| 5 | $23,940 | $11,940 |
| 10 | $47,880 | $23,880 |
| 25 | $119,700 | $59,700 |
| 50 | $239,400 | $119,400 |
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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Playroll vs RemoFirst on Reddit
On Reddit, RemoFirst sits at 18% negative across 33 approved mentions. We screen real community mentions for relevance, then label sentiment, separate from our Select Score.
| Provider | Mentions | First-hand | Positive | Neutral | Negative | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playroll | Too few Reddit mentions to score yet | |||||
| RemoFirst | 33 | 15 | 24% | 58% | 18% | Mostly positive |
Most-discussed topics: RemoFirst — pricing
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Playroll vs RemoFirst: your questions
Which is better, Playroll or RemoFirst?
On our normalized dataset, RemoFirst has the highest Select Score (78/100). The right pick still depends on your priorities, which the matrix above breaks down row by row.
Which is cheapest?
RemoFirst 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.