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Playroll vs Remote People
Where Playroll and Remote People can employ
On our coverage data, Playroll runs an EOR in 168 countries and Remote People in 149. They overlap in 130, so for 70% of the 187 countries either one covers, you can pick on price and service rather than reach. The difference sits in 38 countries only Playroll covers and 19 countries only Remote People covers. If your next hire is in one of them, that decides it.
Only Playroll 38 countries
- Americas
- Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, United States Virgin Islands
- Europe
- Andorra, Belarus, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Russia
- Africa
- Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe
- Asia
- Iraq
- Oceania
- Papua New Guinea, Tonga
Only Remote People 19 countries
- Americas
- Barbados, Greenland, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
- Europe
- Liechtenstein, Monaco, North Macedonia, San Marino
- Africa
- Eswatini, Réunion, Seychelles
- Asia
- Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste
- Oceania
- Nauru
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).
Remote People does not publicly name its employing entities, so we cannot show where it employs directly.
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
Remote People'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 | Remote People |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Lowest entry EOR price here, from $199/mo.
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Playroll vs Remote People: your questions
Which is better, Playroll or Remote People?
On our normalized dataset, Remote People has the highest Select Score (74/100). The right pick still depends on your priorities, which the matrix above breaks down row by row.
Which is cheapest?
Remote People 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.