Remote EOR review: pricing, contract terms and what its country pages get wrong

Remote at a glance

EOR price

$599 or $699two figures on Remote's own pages

EOR countries

90+all on owned entities, per Remote

Default term

12 monthsauto-renews under the terms of service

Our score

62/100EOR category

The score follows our scoring method and sets Remote's place in our best EOR ranking.

Remote EOR pricing and other products

Remote's EOR fee is the charge for employing one person through Remote's local entity. Salary, employer social contributions, benefits and any severance are passed through at cost on the same invoice. The question for buyers is which EOR price applies: the pricing page says "from $599", while a Remote help article updated March 11, 2026 says the standard management fee is 699 USD per employee per month. A third-party comparison site, EOR Overview (updated July 18, 2026), also lists Remote at $699. Ask for the figure on your order form before you compare it with Deel at $599.

Contractors are where Remote is cheapest: $29 a month and billed only in months a contractor is active, against Deel's $49. For the indemnity tier and how it compares, see contractor payment platforms.

What Remote EOR costs for a team

The gap between the two published prices is $100 per employee per month, or $30,000 a year on a 25-person team ($100 x 25 x 12). Startups in Remote's program get "No deposit or setup fees" and 15% off EOR and Contractor Management for 12 months.

Renewal matters as much as the starting price. Remote's order form terms raise fees on renewal by the greater of 8% or the prior year's US CPI. At 8%, $599 becomes $646.92 ($599 x 1.08) in year two.

Contract terms, deposits and FX

Minimum term and auto-renewal

Remote's terms of service (last updated Aug 3, 2026) say the terms run for a 12-month initial term and renew for further 12-month periods (clause 7.1). You can end them on at least 30 days' written notice (7.2), but Payroll Services need 90 days. The order form terms add that an order form renews for 12 months unless you give notice 30 days before the term ends, that fees are non-refundable, and that an early exit owes the shortfall against the Minimum Contract Value, or on a Price Lock deal, 50% of the monthly average estimated annual fees. Remote's onboarding handbook also describes a pay-as-you-go, month-to-month plan, so ask which one you are signing.

Deposit

The pricing page FAQ asks "Do you require deposits or accruals?" but our research could not open the answer. The terms of service (2.6) say Remote "may require You to pay a reserve or provide a standby letter of credit", with no amount. Startups in the program pay no deposit. Everyone else should ask.

Currency conversion

Remote bills using its "Remote FX Rate", which it says varies with transaction volume, currency volatility and conversion cost. The terms (2.4) add: "where foreign exchange applies, We may also apply a transaction fee or margin." No percentage is published.

Late payment and termination

Late invoices carry interest of 0.1% per day under Remote’s terms. Remote lists no offboarding fee; severance and notice pay are employment costs you pay at cost.

Entity model: "100% owned entities"

Remote's EOR page says "100% owned entities, no third parties" and "Employer of Record in 90+ countries". That is the strongest and most consistent ownership claim among the major platforms: the country count is lower than Deel's or Oyster's, but Remote uses the same figure everywhere we looked. With an owned entity there is no local partner in the chain when payroll or a termination goes wrong. If you need a country outside the 90+, Remote cannot employ there, so check its country list first. For how the models differ, see what an employer of record does.

Data errors on Remote's country pages

Remote's country explorer pages appeared in our search results for "employer of record India" and "employer of record Brazil". As read on October 16, 2026, several show employer contributions as zero:

• India: the tax table shows employer cost 0% and Provident Fund 0.00%, and health insurance 0% while calling it mandatory. Employer EPF is 12% of wages up to the Rs 25,000 monthly ceiling (Rs 3,000 a month at the cap: 12% x 25,000), plus EDLI 0.5%, plus ESIC 3.25% for employees earning up to Rs 21,000 a month. On our INR 3,800,000 sample salary, that comes to 3.4% of pay with gratuity accrual. See our India employer cost page.
• Brazil: employer cost 0.00%, INSS 0.0% and FGTS 0.0%, while the same page's severance section says FGTS is 8%. It shows the 2025 minimum wage of R$ 1,518; the 2026 figure is R$ 1,621. See our Brazil employer cost page.
• Netherlands and Philippines: the Netherlands page shows every employer premium as 0.00%, and the Philippines page omits the SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG caps. See Netherlands and Philippines.

These look like placeholder or rendering problems on content pages, not billing errors: Remote invoices actual statutory costs. But a buyer budgeting from those pages would understate the cost of a Brazil hire by about half of salary. Here is the real stack:

Compare more countries in our employer cost by country index, which uses official government sources for every rate.

Support

Remote's EOR page promises onboarding with a dedicated specialist and in-house staff for ongoing support. The pricing page makes no 24/7 claim, unlike Deel. If your hires sit in time zones far from yours, ask for support hours in writing.

Reviews and complaints

Remote holds 4.5 out of 5 from 5,296 reviews on G2 and 4.6 from 3,502 reviews on Trustpilot, 923 of them in the last 12 months (both seen Oct 16, 2026; 83% five-star, 5% one-star on Trustpilot). Visible recent reviews praise on-time pay ("Always Payed on time").

We could not see Remote's low-star reviews: the filter was blocked, and none appeared on the first page. Trustpilot's own AI summary mentions slow support, recurring payroll errors and hard-to-resolve financial issues, but we could not tie those to dated reviews. So we do not claim Remote draws fewer complaints than Deel or Oyster; we only know the 5% one-star share matches Deel's.

Who Remote fits, and the alternatives

Remote fits a company that wants to know who employs its people (an owned entity, not a partner), likes reading terms before signing, and is hiring in one of Remote's 90+ EOR countries. It also suits startups, which get no deposit and 15% off.

Look elsewhere if you need a country Remote does not cover, if you want month-to-month without negotiating, or if price is the main test:

• Deel covers more countries (100+ to 150+ by its own pages) at $599, with a wider product range.
• Multiplier lists $459 billed annually and also claims owned entities.
• Pebl lists $399 with about 90% of employees on its own entities.
• Oyster has no minimum term, at $699.

For the side-by-side, read Deel vs Remote. To see every provider's fee, deposit and entity claim in one table, use our EOR pricing comparison.

How Remote scores

Remote scores 62/100, which places it 3rd of the 13 EOR providers we score. The top score is Multiplier at 79. Every point below comes from a published fact or documented complaints; the rules are in how we score providers.

Our verdict