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 "summary": "Global hiring, payroll and EOR platform — pay contractors and employees compliantly in 150+ countries, priced per contractor or employee, with HR tools and US PEO options.",
 "best_for": "companies hiring internationally without local entities — contractors paid compliantly in 150+ countries, or full EOR employment where you need someone on the ground fast",
 "skip_if": "your team is all-domestic (a local payroll tool is far cheaper), or you hire enough people in one country that opening your own entity beats paying per-employee EOR fees forever",
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  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-09; the figures are unchanged since 2026-08-17) Pricing is per worker and demo-led, and each product is priced separately. Find talent (sourcing, screening and onboarding candidates) is $14 per worker a month. Contractor management is $49 per contractor a month, or $325 per month per Contractor of Record if you want Deel to carry the compliance risk. US PEO starts at $125 per employee a month. And EOR, where Deel employs your international hire, starts at $599 per employee a month. The pricing FAQ says pricing is month to month with no long-term commitment, and Deel's Contractor of Record page adds that each Contractor of Record contract requires a deposit of one month of the contractor's payment. There is a free demo and final quotes come through sales. The spread is the point: the same headcount costs $14 or $599 a month depending on which relationship you need, so identify the employment model before comparing vendors.",
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  "name": "Gusto",
  "why": "Gusto is the friendly US-payroll incumbent for domestic teams; Deel is built for global — contractors, EOR and payroll across 150+ countries. Pick by where your people are"
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  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "key": "pricing_gap_1",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Final prices per country come from a sales quote; benefits and other fees are not in these figures. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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   "question_id": "deel:pricing_gap_2",
   "key": "pricing_gap_2",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Each Contractor of Record contract requires a deposit of one month of the contractor's payment; it is not in these figures. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
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   "plan": "Not stated in their own documentation.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://developer.deel.com/mcp/introduction",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
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   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
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     "time-off",
     "pto",
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     "leave requests",
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    "context": "EOR product page, under 'A better employee experience'; the page also lists 'Time off and expenses' among the EOR steps.",
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