Global HR Platform Pricing for a 200-Person Company

Last updated: October 22, 2026 · 7 global HR platform pricing pages re-read on October 22, 2026 · HRStak is one of the products compared

What does a global HR platform cost for 200 people?

A global HR platform for a 200-person company costs whatever it charges per person, multiplied by the people you actually run through it. That is the answer most comparison pages bury. The employer of record platforms here charge mainly per head: a fee for each employee they legally employ for you, each contractor they pay, and each person on their payroll. Rippling adds a monthly base fee to its per-employee rate.

Put all 200 people on an employer of record and the list-price bill starts at $119,800 a month at the $599 starting rate Deel and Remote both publish, and is $139,800 at Oyster's $699. Almost nobody does that. A 200-person company usually has most of its people in countries where it already has an entity, and uses the platform only for the countries where it does not. That is why the worked example further down this HRStak page prices 20 EOR employees and 10 contractors rather than 200.

HRStak shows up in this comparison honestly as a different line item. HRStak is an AI workspace for HR teams, priced at $999 a month flat on Workspace Pro whatever your headcount. It drafts the documents and answers the policy questions for the HR team. It does not employ people abroad and it does not run payroll.

Global HR platform pricing compared: published prices, October 2026

Every global HR platform price in this HRStak table was read from the vendor's own pricing page on October 22, 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the table says so rather than estimating. The 200-person column multiplies the published employer of record rate by 200 so you can compare list price at that headcount. It is not a quote, and it is not the cost of employing 200 people through an EOR.

Read the table by unit, not by row. Five of the eight products publish a per-person employer of record price. Rippling publishes only a starting HR plan rate, and HiBob publishes nothing. HRStak prices the plan. None of these numbers include the employee's salary, employer social charges, or benefits, which the EOR passes through to you on top of its fee.

What a 200-person global team pays: a worked example

This HRStak example shows global HR platform pricing for one plausible 200-person shape: 170 employees in countries where you have your own entity, 20 employees in countries where you do not, and 10 international contractors. The 20 go on an employer of record and the 10 have their payments processed through the same platform. The 170 stay on whatever payroll and records system you already run. Every rate is the published list price from the table above, read on October 22, 2026.

Two things jump out. The spread is wide: the same 30 people cost from $50,760 at RemoFirst to $170,950 at Oyster in first-year platform fees, with Oyster's figure already including 30 free days for contractors. Deel and Remote both list EOR starting at $599, so at starting rates their gap in this example is the contractor fee; a country-by-country quote can widen or close it. The vendor choice is worth real negotiation time. And the EOR line is almost the whole bill. Contractors are cheap by comparison, which is why the classification question matters so much in a global team.

The HRStak row is there because the HR team still has to write the offer letters, the handbook sections, and the policy answers. HRStak Workspace Pro drafts that work for people in four countries only, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy, as listed on the HRStak pricing page. For employees in any other country, including EOR hires elsewhere, local documents stay with the employer of record's HR support and your counsel. Workspace Pro costs $999 a month whatever the headcount, which works out to $5.00 per employee if you spread it across all 200 people.

Global HR platform pricing by service type

Global HR platform pricing makes sense once you split it into the four services vendors sell, each billed per head, and a 200-person quote usually mixes several of them. HRStak sells none of these four, which is why it sits in its own row. Every price below was read on the vendor's own pricing page on October 22, 2026.

Employer of record (EOR) pricing

• Cost: $199 to $699 per employee a month in the global HR platforms HRStak checked, the most expensive unit. Over a year one EOR employee costs from $7,188 at Deel and $8,388 at Oyster, in fees alone.
• Examples: RemoFirst from $199, Multiplier Core from $459 billed annually or $499 monthly, Deel from $599, Remote from $599, Oyster USD 699.
• What it covers: the vendor becomes the legal employer in a country where you have no entity. Multiplier's pricing page lists compliant employment, local contracts, payroll processing, tax and statutory filings, benefits administration, onboarding, and ongoing HR support inside its EOR fee.

Contractor management pricing

• Cost: free to $49 per contractor a month on global HR platform pricing pages, the cheap unit.
• Examples: RemoFirst free to manage, $25 a month to process payments; Remote from $29; Oyster free for 30 days, then USD 29; Multiplier $40; Deel from $49.
• What it covers: contracts, invoices, and cross-border payments, with the contract staying between you and the contractor. Remote says it onboards and pays contractors in 190+ countries.

Contractor of record pricing

• Cost: $325 to $400 and up per contractor a month among global HR platforms that publish it.
• Examples: Deel from $325, Remote from $325, Multiplier from $400.
• What it covers: the vendor holds the contract and takes on classification risk. Remote's page says it contracts with and pays the contractor directly, with uncapped indemnity.

Global payroll pricing

• Cost: from $20 to $29 per employee a month as a published floor on global HR platform pricing pages.
• Examples: Multiplier from $20, which it says depends on workforce size, countries, and payroll requirements; Remote from $29.
• What it covers: payroll in countries where you already own an entity. Remote lists gross-to-net calculated locally and tax filings and statutory contributions remitted in each country.

Rippling's global HR platform pricing folds every service into one quote. Its pricing page FAQ says plans start at $8 per employee per month with a monthly base fee, that most products are priced per employee per month, and that the total depends on the products you choose. HiBob's pricing page is a demo request form with no price.

What global HR platform pricing pages leave out

Every global HR platform price above is a starting point, and the vendors say so in the small print. These are the trade-offs HRStak found written on the same pricing pages, the ones a vendor's own comparison article tends to skip.

• Salary, taxes, and benefits sit on top. The EOR fee is the platform's margin. The employee's gross pay, employer social charges, and statutory benefits are billed through to you as well. RemoFirst prices its RemoHealth insurance separately, from $55 per person a month.
• Starts at means it can rise. RemoFirst's $199, Multiplier's $459, and Deel's and Remote's $599 are starting prices. Multiplier says about 11% of the countries it supports carry adjusted pricing, and adds compliance-mandated add-ons and an implementation fee where applicable.
• Annual billing changes the number. Multiplier's $459 and $519 are billed annually; on monthly contracts the same plans are $499 and $559. Oyster sells annual EOR seats at a reduced fee, which its pricing page says can be reused for new roles or backfills, but does not print the discounted rate. Deel says it is month to month with no long-term commitment.
• Payroll prices are floors. Remote's global payroll starts at $29 per employee a month and Multiplier's at $20, and Multiplier says its rate depends on workforce size, countries, and payroll requirements. Ask for the price at your country mix in writing.
• Setup fees vary. Remote states there are no setup or onboarding fees and that its platform is included at no extra cost on every plan. Multiplier lists an implementation fee as applicable. Get the first-year total, not the monthly rate.
• Advice is billed by the hour. Oyster lists People Partner services at USD 300 an hour. Expert HR help is not always inside the per-head fee.

The HRStak side of the same list: SSO is not included on the $249, $599, or $999 self-serve plans and goes through Enterprise, HRStak does not include an ATS or payroll at any price, and Workspace Pro includes 500 employee chatbot answers a month, which at 200 people is 2.5 answers per employee. A larger team with heavy question volume should price Enterprise.

Where HRStak fits in a global HR stack, and where it does not

HRStak is the AI layer a global HR team works in, not the global HR platform that employs people. Buying it does not remove the need for an employer of record, contractor payments, or local payroll. What it removes is the drafting load: offer letters, handbook sections, policy updates, performance review language, and the same employee questions asked again every week. HRStak's walkthrough of the six layers of an HR tech stack shows the same split for a domestic team: records, payroll, recruiting, employee experience, analytics, and the AI work layer.

• Where HRStak fits. Your HR team covers people in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or Italy and wants one place to draft HR documents and answer policy questions for all of them. Workspace Pro at $999 a month covers those four countries, 5 HR users plus 10 managers, 500 AI generations a month, and the full 81-tool workspace. The price is identical at 50 people or 200.
• Where HRStak does not fit. You need someone to become the legal employer in a new country, to pay contractors across currencies, or to run payroll. That is an employer of record or payroll provider. HRStak's coverage also stops at four countries; for people in Germany, India, or Brazil, HRStak does not draft to local law.
• Where HRStak assists, not decides. HRStak drafts and your team reviews. Hiring, pay, and termination decisions, and any local legal question, stay with your people and your counsel.

Every HRStak plan, including the one-country Essentials at $249 and Workspace at $599, is on the HRStak plans and pricing page, and the full list of HRStak's 81 HR AI tools shows what the workspace produces.

What is a global HR system?

A global HR system is software, often bundled with a legal service, that lets one company hire, pay, and manage people in more than one country. The global HR platforms in this HRStak comparison usually combine four parts: an employer of record for countries where you have no entity, contractor management, payroll where you do have an entity, and one record of every worker. Deel, Remote, Oyster, Multiplier, and RemoFirst lead with the employer of record; Rippling and HiBob lead with the HR record and quote for the rest.

HRStak is a different layer of the same stack. HRStak is an AI workspace where the HR team drafts documents and answers policy questions, grounded in your own handbook, for the four countries Workspace Pro covers. It does not replace the system that employs or pays people.

Which global HR platforms are the most popular?

Rippling and BambooHR appear on both of two 2026 global HR platform roundups HRStak re-read on October 22, 2026. RemoFirst's comparison names Deel, Oyster, Rippling, BambooHR, and RemoFirst. The Next Web's names HiBob, Rippling, BambooHR, Personio, UKG, Sage HR, and ADP Workforce Now. Appearing on those two lists is not a market share figure, and HRStak does not have one to give you.

What matters more for a 200-person buyer is whether the price is public. Deel, Remote, Oyster, Multiplier, and RemoFirst publish per-person rates, so you can build the budget before the first call. Rippling prints only a starting rate plus a base fee and HiBob prints nothing, so you cannot. HRStak publishes all three self-serve plans, $249, $599, and $999 a month.

How much does HR software cost when you are not buying a global HR platform?

Domestic HR software costs far less per head than a global HR platform, because it stores records rather than employing people. Sage HR's US pricing page, checked October 22, 2026, lists $6.50 per employee a month for core HR and leave. BambooHR's pricing page, checked the same day, says that for companies with more than 25 employees Core starts at $10.25, Pro at $17.50, and Elite at $25 per employee a month, with automatic volume discounts; the plan cards on the same page show $10, $17, and $25. At 200 people, those published rates run from $1,300 to $5,000 a month. HRStak's per-employee HR software price breakdown by headcount has the full grid, the add-on fees, and the three-year totals.

The comparison that matters at 200 people: the domestic per-head fee is a few dollars, the EOR per-head fee is a few hundred. Keep them in separate budget lines. HRStak's flat $999 a month on Workspace Pro is a third line, and it does not grow with either.

How to get a real global HR platform quote at 200 employees

Global HR platform pricing only becomes a real number once a vendor quotes your exact mix of countries and worker types, so HRStak recommends going in with the numbers ready.

1. Count people by country and type. Employees in entity countries, employees in non-entity countries, contractors. The quote depends on all three, and the EOR count drives most of it.
2. Ask for the first-year total, in writing. Per-head fee, implementation, compliance add-ons, payroll delivery fees, benefits, and currency conversion, at your headcount.
3. Price monthly and annual billing. Multiplier and Oyster both discount annual commitments; Deel is month to month. Know what you give up for the discount.
4. Get two published-price vendors and one quote-only vendor. The published rates in this HRStak table are your anchor when the quote-only vendor names a number.
5. Set the country threshold. Decide how many hires in one country would justify opening your own entity, then check the EOR bill against it every year.
6. Budget the HR work separately. The platform employs and pays. Someone still writes the documents. If that is the bottleneck, price it on HRStak's published plan list rather than in a per-head quote.

For the wider AI side of the HR stack, HRStak's AI for HR guide compares seven platforms on what their AI actually does.

Global HR platform pricing: frequently asked questions