Almost every “best employer of record” list you will find is published by an EOR. We do not sell employment services. What follows compares four providers with confirmed UK offerings, judged on price transparency, coverage and what they actually take off your hands.
- Multiplier is the cheapest published rate - $459 per employee per month on annual billing, the lowest of the four
- Deel is the most established - $599 per employee per month, 130+ countries and by far the largest customer base
- Pebl covers the most countries - 185+, but quotes privately so you cannot benchmark before talking to sales
- Price transparency splits the field - three publish rates you can check today, one does not
- Only Oyster will bill you in sterling - the rest publish USD only, so ask before you sign
- None of them absorb your employment costs - 15% employer NI and 3% minimum pension are yours regardless
How we compared them
We took each provider’s own published pricing and product pages in August 2026 and checked the claims against each other. Where a page contradicted itself we recorded the conservative figure and said so. We did not accept self-reported ratings or performance statistics as fact, because every provider in this category publishes them and none can be verified from the outside.
Four providers made the list because they have confirmed UK employer of record offerings with detail we could verify. That is a deliberately narrow field rather than a padded top ten.
| Provider | Entry EOR price | Countries | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplier | $459 per employee/mo | 150+ | Published | Lowest published rate |
| Deel | $599 per employee/mo | 130+ | Published | Scale and maturity |
| Pebl | Quote only | 185+ | On request | Widest coverage |
| Oyster | $699 per employee/mo | Not published for EOR | Published | Billing in sterling |
Multiplier
Multiplier’s Core EOR tier is $459 per employee per month on annual billing, or $499 if you pay monthly. Its Growth tier at $519 adds integrations with your HRIS, accounting and payroll systems, custom reporting and API access. Enterprise pricing is quoted. The fee covers compliant employment, local contracts, payroll, tax and statutory filings, benefits administration and onboarding.
It also sells adjacent products that matter if your workforce is mixed: contractor management at $40 per contractor per month, Contractor of Record at around $400, and global payroll from $20 per employee per month for countries where you already hold an entity. Multiplier states there is no minimum headcount, so a single hire is viable.
When we checked in August 2026 the pricing cards carried unreplaced placeholder text under every tier, and the page contradicted itself twice: Contractor of Record showed $400 on the card and $399 in the FAQ, and country coverage appeared as both 150+ and 160+. The headline EOR figures are consistent between card and FAQ, so we have used those. Confirm current pricing directly before committing.
Deel
Deel charges $599 per EOR employee per month, the middle of the three published rates here, and covers 130 or more countries for full legal employment. It reports more than 40,000 customers and over $20bn in processed payroll, which makes it comfortably the largest operator here by volume.
What the premium buys is breadth of product rather than a better EOR. Deel sells contractor management at $49 per contractor per month, Contractor of Record at $325, a US PEO at $125 per employee per month, an HRIS at $5 per user and recruitment tooling at $14 per worker. If you want one vendor across a mixed workforce, that consolidation has real value. Our full Deel review covers the platform in depth, and Deel versus Remote compares it with its closest rival.
Pebl
Pebl was Velocity Global until it rebranded in 2026, and the old domain now serves the new brand. It covers 185 or more countries, the broadest published reach here, and operates a flat-rate model: one predictable monthly fee per employee covering EOR services, compliance, payroll, onboarding, expense and leave management and support.
The catch is that it does not publish that fee. Pricing is quote-only, so you cannot sanity-check a proposal against a list price or compare it with Deel and Multiplier without entering a sales process first. Pebl states there are no hidden fees and that employer tax and statutory costs are shown before you hire, which is a reasonable commitment, but one you take on trust until a quote arrives.
Oyster
Oyster charges $699 per employee per month for EOR, the highest published rate in this comparison. What it offers in return is the thing UK buyers most often ask for and rarely get: billing accepted in pounds as well as US dollars, euros and Canadian dollars. Every other provider here quotes and invoices a UK hire in dollars.
It also charges no setup, onboarding or offboarding fees, which is worth weighing against Deel’s global payroll setup charges and the implementation fees Multiplier lists separately. Contractors are free for the first 30 days and then $29 per contractor per month. There is a seat-based annual billing option at reduced rates, though Oyster does not publish what those rates are, and purchased seats can be reused for new hires at no extra cost.
One gap worth naming: Oyster publishes a 180-plus country figure for contractors but does not restate a country count for EOR specifically on its pricing page. We have not published one here because we could not verify it, and an EOR country count is not something to infer from a contractor figure.
Who we left out, and why
The EOR market has dozens of operators and most roundups list ten or more. We did not, because beyond a handful of providers the published detail thins out very quickly and a longer list would mean repeating marketing copy we could not check.
One exclusion is worth naming. Remote is a serious competitor to Deel and a reasonable shortlist candidate; we cover it separately in our Remote review rather than here. Globalization Partners and the various smaller UK-focused operators were left out because we could not verify current pricing or UK-specific terms to the standard we apply to the four above.
Absence from this list is not a judgement on quality. It means we could not check enough to write about them usefully, which is a different thing and worth saying plainly.
What none of these prices cover
Every figure on this page is a platform fee. It is not the cost of employing anyone. On top of it sit the salary and the UK statutory employer costs: National Insurance at 15% for the 2026-27 tax year above a secondary threshold starting at £96 a week, and workplace pension contributions from a minimum of 3% on qualifying earnings between £6,240 and £50,270.
On a £50,000 salary those statutory costs come to roughly £8,060 a year, so the real annual cost of that hire is about £58,060 before any provider fee at all. Comparing $459 against $599 matters far less than most buyers assume once that context is in place. Our EOR cost guide works through the arithmetic in full.
There is a currency point worth registering too. All four publish their rates in US dollars, so on a straight reading the fee element of a UK hire moves with the exchange rate while everything else stays in pounds. Oyster is the exception that proves the question is worth asking: it accepts billing in GBP as well as USD, EUR and CAD. Deel, Multiplier and Pebl publish no sterling option, which does not mean they will refuse one. Ask every provider directly whether they will quote and invoice in pounds before you sign.
Which should you choose?
If you want the lowest published rate and your target countries are covered, Multiplier is cheapest on paper, provided you verify current pricing given the state of its pricing page. If you want the safest institutional choice, or you run a mixed workforce of employees and contractors through one vendor, Deel earns its premium. If you are hiring somewhere unusual, Pebl’s 185-country reach may be the only option that works, and a sales conversation is the price of finding out.
Whichever way you lean, get all three to quote on the same named role at the same salary, and insist each quote separates the platform fee from the statutory costs. Providers present these differently and it is the only way to compare like with like. If you are still deciding whether an EOR is the right structure at all, start with PEO versus EOR or our explainer on what an employer of record does.
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