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Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 15 Aug 2026
Cost-trap flags🪑 Per-seat pricing
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Our pricing check · 2026-08-15, read on their own siteADP shows no public pricing for RUN anywhere on its site, and we checked four places before saying so: /pricing returns a 404, so does /pricing.md, the RUN product page offers only a “Get Pricing” button, and the dedicated…
What will cost you money if you skim itThe quote-only posture is normal in payroll, so the honest complaint is not that ADP hides its price — it is what that does to you as a buyer.

Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence

🪑 Per-seat pricing — Cost scales with every user you add
“Ask for the per-employee-per-month rate and the per-payroll-run fee separately, ask what happens in month four, and ask what the price becomes at dou…”

Genuinely good for

small and mid-sized employers who want payroll, tax filing and compliance handled by the largest and oldest provider in the category — over 75 years, and their own figure of more than 900,000 small businesses on RUN alone — and who would rather have a named account team than a cheaper self-service…

Skip it if

you need to budget before you talk to sales, because you simply cannot: every route ends at a quote form. Also skip it if you are a one-or-two-person company where a published-price competitor covers the same job, and if you only pay 1099 contractors, price that specific product rather than the…

The honest comparisonGusto — the comparison that makes the difference visible rather than the features. Gusto publishes its per-month and per-person rates on its own site, so you can cost it in five minutes; ADP will not, so you cannot. If both can do the job, the question becomes what a sales conversation is worth to you…

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