Deel vs Remote: EOR pricing, coverage and contractor pay (2026)

Price: the same headline number, different terms

Deel's pricing page lists employer of record from $599 per employee per month and says its plans are month to month. Remote's pricing page lists the same $599, but only for annual contracts, and publishes no monthly-contract price. If you expect to hire for less than a year, ask Remote for its monthly terms before you compare.

Deposits change the first invoice more than the fee. Deel's help center says each EOR hire normally needs a deposit of one to one and a half months of all monthly charges, salary included. Remote says it has no standard deposit and no setup fees, but may ask for a refundable reserve in some cases.

Contractor pricing differs more. Remote starts at $29 per active contractor per month and $99 for Contractor Management Plus, which adds misclassification cover. Deel starts at $49 per contractor per month. Both list Contractor of Record from $325.

Coverage and who actually employs your hire

Deel lists EOR in 130+ countries and says it owns entities and its payroll engine in those 130+ countries. Remote lists EOR in 90+ countries and says its employer of record runs on entities it owns, more than 100 of them, with no third parties.

Owned entities matter because the entity is the legal employer on your hire's contract. Where a provider works through a partner, ask who signs the contract, who runs payroll and who answers a termination question. Check the specific country you need rather than the global count, since both numbers are rounded and each vendor's pages give slightly different totals.

Paying contractors, including stablecoins

Deel contractors can withdraw to a local bank account, Wise, PayPal, Payoneer, Revolut, Coinbase or a stablecoin transfer to their own wallet. Deel publishes a fee for each method, for example 2% plus a $1 network fee for the stablecoin transfer, and that transfer is not available to accounts in the US or UK.

Remote pays contractors to a bank account through Wise or Stripe Connect and charges no contractor fee for same-currency local payouts. Its help center says contractors of USD-billed companies in supported countries can take USDC through Stripe Connect, on Base, Aptos or Polygon. No fee is published for that option.

In both cases the stablecoin option is a contractor withdrawal choice, not employee salary. Toku works the other way round: the company can fund payroll in stablecoins, and Toku pays contractors in USDC or USDT or local currency, priced at $19 per contractor per month.

Currency conversion

Neither vendor publishes a conversion markup. Deel says it converts client funds at a forward rate from its banking partners, on top of payment-method fees. Remote sets a Remote FX rate once per billing cycle and shows it on the invoice before you pay.

Because list prices exclude conversion, run the same payroll through the FX savings calculator and ask each vendor for the rate it would have used on a recent invoice date.

Which one fits

This is Toku's reading of each provider's public pages, not a test of either product. Ask all three for a quote on the same hire, country and salary.

• Deel fits teams that want month-to-month EOR, a wide country list and many contractor withdrawal options in one product, and can carry a deposit per hire.
• Remote fits teams that can commit to annual EOR contracts, prefer owned entities and no standard deposit, and want lower published contractor prices.
• Toku fits teams that want the same $599 EOR list fee with itemized costs, contractor management at $19, and salary valued in local currency with an opt-in to USDC net pay where local rules allow.