Why Wunderhire can charge less than Deel or Remote without cutting corners

When you sell Employer of Record services to clients in the United States or Europe, the first question on their mind is often: “Why is this so cheap” Many assume a lower fee means corners are being cut. In our case, the facts tell a different story. We have deliberately optimised our model so that clients get full compliance at a fraction of the usual price.

Why EOR pricing often stays the same everywhere

Big EOR platforms keep one price label even in low cost countries.

In theory, global EOR pricing should track local regulatory complexity. Countries like the US, Germany and France require extensive benefits, taxes and paperwork, so charging a premium of around 699 euros per employee can seem to reflect that overhead.

In practice, many large providers charge almost the same headline fee in high cost and low cost markets. On top of that, they add hidden costs such as currency conversion charges or additional fees for international payments. The final price often does not reflect ground reality in each country.

Why India lets us charge less

Compliance in India is simpler and more digital, so EOR overhead is lower.

India has made hiring easier and more digital in recent years. The government consolidated dozens of labour laws into a few streamlined labour codes and introduced reforms specifically intended to reduce compliance burdens and promote ease of doing business. Staying legally compliant in India is becoming simpler and cheaper.

Technology and banking also work in our favour. Digital KYC and online payments are deeply ingrained in India, so onboarding is fast. We work with modern banking partners that give us local receiving accounts in multiple currencies. Clients can pay us in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD or SGD as if they were making a domestic transfer, and we do not add extra FX fees when they do. Those savings allow us to pass on the real costs instead of hiding large markups.

Our lean strategy, fair fees and no frills

We strip out global extras and charge for what smaller teams actually use.

We focus on the essentials, expert legal compliance and smooth payroll, and skip luxury extras that most smaller teams never really use. Our platform currently handles up to ten employees through a clean single admin dashboard, with support for four admins and twenty employees coming very soon. A lower price does not mean weaker compliance. It means we run a tight ship, use India’s efficiencies properly and share those gains with you.

Savings in action for a team of five

The same 5 developers, over €2,600 saved every month.

Now let us talk about your money, not theory. Imagine you hire 5 full time developers in India at ₹300,000 per month each. That is roughly €15,000 in salaries every month.

Here is a simple monthly comparison.

Big global EOR

Platform fee
€600 × 5 employees = €3,000

FX markups
Approximately €600 per month at around 3.3 percent
We based this on more than 10 invoices from 4 different providers

Total monthly cost
Approximately €18,600

A large part of that goes to the platform, not to your team.

Wunderhire

Platform fee
€250 × 5 employees = €1,250
For signups before 31 December, our launch rate is €199 per employee, which makes this number even lower

FX markups
Approximately €0, because we use multi currency accounts and do not add our own markup

Total monthly cost
Approximately €16,000

You keep the same 5 developers with full legal compliance and payroll support and still save more than €2,600 every month. That is over 15 percent off your total bill and more than 65 percent off the platform fee alone.

Over a year that is more than €31,000, enough for another senior engineer or extra runway. It is money you can invest in your product instead of someone else’s price label.

The bottom line

You keep the same compliance and people while paying far less for the platform.

We serve one country and do it well. Our legal partners go deep on Indian labour law, our platform is tuned for the needs of remote tech teams and our banking stack is built to keep FX friction close to zero. Our pricing is not a gimmick. It simply mirrors the model we have built.

We encourage you to do the math using your own scenario or send us a recent invoice and let us walk you through the comparison. You may discover that you can keep the same compliance and the same people while reclaiming a meaningful amount of budget every single month.