Deel vs Remote in the UK is a choice between two global platforms that a British business usually meets the moment it starts employing people abroad, and on paper they look interchangeable. Both run PAYE for your own UK entity, both pay contractors across borders, both employ people through Employer of Record where you have no entity, and both publish a price for each of those three products. The differences are in what sits around the published figures: which fees are published and which are not, how each describes the entities it employs through, and how support is delivered when the person with the payroll question is in another time zone.
Plans and pricing checked September 2026, and every figure below is read live from our pricing database.
Pricing compared
For payroll through your own UK entity, Deel charges a monthly base fee of £0 and prices UK payroll per employee under its Global Payroll product, shown in our table as £22/emp/mo (Global Payroll). Remote charges a base fee of £0 and prices per employee at £22/emp/mo (Payroll).
Remote's per-employee figure needs a caveat that Deel's does not. Remote's own pricing page says that Payroll also carries an implementation fee to set up your entities and a recurring payroll delivery fee, and it publishes neither, so the real bill for own-entity payroll on Remote is higher than the per-employee line alone. Ask for both before comparing that line against Deel's.
Employer of Record, the product you use where you have no entity, is published by both: Deel at £448/emp/mo and Remote at £522/emp/mo. Contractor management is published by both as well, Deel's reading Yes (£37/contractor) and Remote's Yes (£22/contractor). Neither has a free plan: Deel lists No and Remote No. On contract terms Deel reads No and Remote No.
The calculator above prices both at your own headcount. If your overseas people are mostly contractors, the contractor line is the one that decides the bill, not the per-employee line, so set the mix you actually have. Deel's wider product range, including its HR layer, is costed separately in our Deel pricing guide.
Who each one is built for
Deel's target market reads UK + global / cross-border teams, and the product matches: it began as a contractor and Employer of Record engine and grew payroll, immigration and HR around it. The pitch is range. Whatever shape the next hire takes, a contractor in one country, an Employer of Record employee in another, a PAYE employee in Manchester, there is a Deel product with a published price for it.
Remote's reads UK + global-first teams. The pitch is control. Remote says it owns the local entities it employs people through, and it presents that as what lets it stand behind compliance and intellectual property assignment in the countries it operates in. For a business hiring engineers or product staff abroad, who owns the entity that owns their work is a fair question to put to any platform.
What still has to work in the United Kingdom
A global platform is only useful to a UK business if it also runs the UK pay run properly, and both do. HMRC recognition reads Yes for Deel and Yes for Remote. RTI and FPS filing reads Yes and Yes. Workplace pension auto-enrolment reads Yes and Yes, with the pension providers each supports listed as UK pension for Deel and UK pension for Remote. Statutory pay reads Yes and Yes.
CIS is where both thin out. Deel lists its Construction Industry Scheme support as Limited and Remote as Limited. Neither is built for a business whose UK workforce is subcontractors on site, and a construction firm with a global team is better served pairing either with a UK-native engine for the CIS part. Our payroll guide for global teams covers that split arrangement and the UK-native options for it.
Global hiring and Employer of Record
Global payroll reads Yes (100+ countries) for Deel and Yes (global) for Remote. Immigration and visa support reads Yes and Yes, and contractor-to-employee conversion Yes and Yes.
Misclassification protection needs more care than a single cell allows. Our table records it as Yes for Deel and Yes for Remote, but for both the indemnity sits on a higher contractor tier than the base contractor product, so the per-contractor fee in the table is not the price of being covered. Ask which tier a quote includes.
An Employer of Record employs your overseas hire through a local company. Remote says it owns the entities it employs people through and makes that its argument on compliance and intellectual property; Deel states that it owns entities and its payroll engine in many of the countries it covers. Neither statement tells you what happens in the one country you care about, so ask each platform which entity would employ your specific hire, in that specific country, and who owns it. That answer matters more than any headline country count.
Neither platform makes an IR35 status determination for a contractor based in the United Kingdom. Under the off-payroll working rules that decision sits with you as the engager, and misclassification cover on either platform is about contractor law abroad, not about HMRC's view of your Bristol contractor.
Support, integrations and AI side by side
Support is delivered in different ways. Deel's reads 24/7 and Remote's Dedicated specialist: one is coverage at any hour, the other a named person with in-country expertise. Which is worth more depends on whether your payroll questions arrive in the middle of the night or need someone who knows the local rules.
Accounting integrations are listed as Xero, QBO, NetSuite, Sage for Deel and Xero, QBO, NetSuite for Remote, so check your own ledger against each list before assuming a journal will post itself. AI features read Native + add-ons (Deel AI, Akai agents) for Deel and Native (payroll/compliance AI access) for Remote, and the connection for AI agents Native MCP (official) and Native MCP (official). Employee self-service is Yes on Deel and Yes on Remote.
Pros and cons for this matchup
Deel publishes its payroll, contractor and Employer of Record prices, charges no payroll base fee, runs support at any hour and requires no annual contract, and its range covers immigration support and an HR layer as well. Against that, the range is also the cost of entry to a larger product: if all you need is PAYE for a UK team plus one overseas hire, much of what Deel sells will go unused.
Remote makes entity ownership the centre of its compliance and IP argument, publishes its Employer of Record and per-employee prices, and pairs a dedicated specialist with in-country experts. Against that, its own-entity payroll carries an implementation fee and a payroll delivery fee that it states but does not publish, so its per-employee line understates the real cost of that product.
The verdict
If the reason you are here is range, one platform for every hiring shape with published prices and support whenever your team is awake, Deel is the one built for that, and its published figures let you cost the whole arrangement today.
If the reason you are here is control, and the question you keep asking is who actually employs the person and who owns what they produce, Remote puts that question at the centre of its offer, and its Employer of Record figure is published. Ask Remote for the implementation and delivery fees on own-entity payroll before you compare that line against Deel's, because the published per-employee figure is not the whole price.
For a business also weighing whether to keep payroll, HR and IT in one system, the comparison worth reading next is Deel vs Rippling, where the question is a platform rather than an entity. Set your real headcount and contractor mix in the calculator above; the answer between Deel and Remote moves with it.