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 "summary": "Employer of Record and global hiring in 150+ countries. Recruitment is charged separately at 20-25% of annual salary.",
 "best_for": "small and mid-size teams hiring a handful of people abroad who want to pay monthly, keep the option to stop, and not carry a five-employee minimum. EOR Flex is genuinely unusual on those terms: no setup fee, no deposit, no minimum headcount and no commitment, at a third of the EOR floor we have on file for Deel. The $29 contractor tier is a reasonable entry too if all you need is compliant contracts and payment in 120+ currencies",
 "skip_if": "your hiring runs through their recruitment desk rather than your own, because at 20 to 25% of annual salary that fee decides the total cost and the monthly rate becomes a rounding error. Skip it as well if you need a firm budget before committing: with no country-level rates published, a like-for-like comparison against another provider is not possible from public information — you have to get quotes from both. And if you are already at scale with a dedicated account manager elsewhere, the Flex tier is not aimed at you and Plus removes much of the flexibility that makes Flex interesting",
 "honest_knock": "The monthly rates are the cheapest we have on file for this category, and that is worth saying plainly. Our Deel dossier has EOR from $599 per employee a month against Remote People’s $199, contractor of record $325 against $199, US PEO $125 against $99 and contractor management $49 against $29. If those hold at your headcount and in your country, the gap is large enough to matter.\n\nTwo things stop that from being the whole picture. First, every figure on the page carries a ‘from’ and not one country-level rate is published. EOR pricing moves with statutory employer cost, which varies enormously between, say, Portugal and Brazil, so the number you are quoted for your actual hire is the only one that counts. Ask for it in writing before you compare anything.\n\nSecond, and larger: the recruitment services are priced as a share of salary, and that dwarfs the subscription. Global Recruitment at 20% of annual salary on an $80,000 hire is $16,000 due on day one — more than six years of EOR Flex for the same person. Executive Search at 25% is more again. Recruit + EOR at 2% over twelve months is a different animal entirely and is the one worth understanding, because it is the only route where the fee is spread rather than paid up front. Nothing on the pricing page puts these side by side, so it is easy to read the $199 and miss where the money actually goes.\n\nOne structural note: EOR Plus needs a minimum of five employees and an annual commitment, so a small team comparing tiers is really only choosing Flex.",
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  "notes": "(2026-08-07, read on their own pricing page; re-verified unchanged on 2026-10-06 and again on 2026-10-09) Priced per service rather than per plan, and every figure is a floor. Employer of Record: EOR Flex from $199 per employee a month, billed monthly with no commitment, no setup fee and no minimum headcount; EOR Plus from $399 with an annual commitment, a dedicated account manager and a minimum of 5 employees. Contractor of Record from $199 a month including misclassification cover; plain contractor management from $29. US PEO from $99 per employee a month and US payroll from $29. Global payroll from $25 per employee a month, with volume discounts quoted above 50 employees. Recruitment is charged on salary instead: Recruit + EOR is 2% of annual salary spread over twelve months, Global Recruitment 20% payable on the candidate’s first day, and Executive Search 25%. Legal help is $199 an hour with no retainer. Benefits, equity, incorporation, entity management and visas are all quote-only. The pricing FAQ (read 9 October 2026) says EOR Plus requires no security deposit, and that for EOR Flex the deposit amount and refund conditions are confirmed in your proposal.",
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  "why": "the comparison worth doing, and our Deel dossier makes it checkable. On published floors: EOR $199 against $599 a month, contractor of record $199 against $325, US PEO $99 against $125, contractor management $29 against $49. Remote People is cheaper on every line we can compare. What Deel has is scale and a product surface that goes well beyond employment — and, in fairness, both are demo-led at the point where it matters, so neither publishes what your particular hire will actually cost. Get a written quote from both for the same country and the same salary; that is the only comparison that survives contact with reality. Our Remote People figures were read on 2026-08-07, the Deel figures are dated in that dossier."
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  "vendor_site": "https://remotepeople.com"
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  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
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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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  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "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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  {
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  {
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   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Recruitment fees (2% to 25% of salary), legal help, benefits, equity, incorporation, entity management and visas are priced separately or by quote and are not included. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
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    "feature": "misclassification_protection",
    "plans": [
     "Contractor of Record"
    ],
    "quote": "Full misclassification protection included.",
    "context": "On the Contractor of Record card.",
    "source": "https://remotepeople.com/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-09"
   }
  ],
  "note": "From the vendor's own pages, with plan, source and reading date. Documented by the vendor, not tested by us; our own tests are in task_evidence."
 }
}