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India EOR Pricing: $149 Flat, Nothing Hidden

The number you came for: $149 per employee per month, falling to $129 for every seat once your headcount crosses twenty. Salaries and statutory employer contributions are invoiced at their actual rupee cost with zero markup, converted at the RBI reference rate onto one USD bill. No onboarding charge, no deposit, no exit penalty, no annual contract.

Flat $149 per employee monthly, $129 for the full team past twenty heads. Salaries pass through at actuals, one USD invoice, nothing due at signup and nothing due when you leave.

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G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

Teams building in India. First hire to full team.

What a flat fee buys you versus running the entity math yourself.

Put the subsidiary route next to a flat monthly fee and six cost lines separate the two.

Budget for your own entity

Budget for our flat fee

Cash out before hire one
Incorporation, legal drafting and registrations consume thousands of dollars up front.
Zero. Your first invoice arrives after your first payroll month.
Recurring overhead
CA retainers, payroll software seats, secretarial filings and audit fees bill every month whether you hire or not.
The $149 fee only exists while an employee does.
Predictability of spend
Penalty exposure, consultant hours and surprise professional fees make budgeting a guess.
Fee times headcount. Your finance team can model it in one cell.
Penalty exposure
A challan filed late attracts 12% yearly interest plus damages reaching 25%, billed to your company.
Statutory demands address our registration, never your books.
Cost at twenty-one heads
Entity overhead stays flat while complexity climbs with every hire.
$129 per seat for everyone, applied automatically with no renegotiation.
Cost of walking away
Winding up a subsidiary means months of dissolution filings and professional fees.
Serve written notice. The final invoice is your last cost.

Budget for your own entity

Cash out before hire one Incorporation, legal drafting and registrations consume thousands of dollars up front.
Recurring overhead CA retainers, payroll software seats, secretarial filings and audit fees bill every month whether you hire or not.
Predictability of spend Penalty exposure, consultant hours and surprise professional fees make budgeting a guess.
Penalty exposure A challan filed late attracts 12% yearly interest plus damages reaching 25%, billed to your company.
Cost at twenty-one heads Entity overhead stays flat while complexity climbs with every hire.
Cost of walking away Winding up a subsidiary means months of dissolution filings and professional fees.

Budget for our flat fee

Cash out before hire one Zero. Your first invoice arrives after your first payroll month.
Recurring overhead The $149 fee only exists while an employee does.
Predictability of spend Fee times headcount. Your finance team can model it in one cell.
Penalty exposure Statutory demands address our registration, never your books.
Cost at twenty-one heads $129 per seat for everyone, applied automatically with no renegotiation.
Cost of walking away Serve written notice. The final invoice is your last cost.
Month 1
Directors verified, company name cleared
Month 2
Incorporation processed by the MCA
Month 3
Tax registrations: PAN, TAN, GSTIN
Month 4
PF and ESI employer codes allotted
Month 5
Banking live, payroll stack configured
Month 6
First offer letter can finally go out

The most expensive line item is the one you never budgeted.

Statutory interest of 12% a year starts the moment a PF challan misses its date, and damages of up to 25% stack on top while it stays unpaid.

Buying through us moves that entire exposure onto our registration, which is why a flat fee is cheaper than it looks on paper.

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What one skipped challan costs as weeks pass Interest plus damages, growing daily
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Figures model a modest payroll with a single missed challan. Larger wage bills and longer delays produce larger numbers.
Whose ledger absorbs the demand
Entity registered to you You
Employment on Versatile's books Versatile

There is a headcount where owning the entity beats paying us. We name it plainly in the FAQ instead of hiding it. Put your real salary numbers into the EOR versus entity calculator and read the totals side by side.

Every rupee on your invoice traces to a line you can audit.

Fee, salary pass-through and statutory contributions appear as separate lines on one USD invoice, and the filing receipts behind them land in your inbox monthly.

You run

  • Budgets, approvals and headcount plans
  • Salary bands and raise decisions
  • Everything about the actual work

We handle

  • Employment paper under our entity
  • Payroll execution and payslip delivery
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS remittance
  • Reconciliation and monthly filing proof

You run

  • Approve budgets and headcount
  • Decide what people earn
  • Direct the work itself
  • Keep full commercial control

We handle

  • Issue contracts on our registration
  • Execute payroll every month
  • Remit every statutory amount on time
  • Send receipts you can audit
  • Maintain India-side records
  • Field employee pay queries

When something happens in India, it is ours.

An authority questions a filing Addressed to us
An invoice line looks off We reconcile it
Statutory rates get revised We restate your numbers

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

No percentage-of-salary pricing, ever.

Many providers charge a slice of each salary, so your fee climbs every time you give a raise. Ours is a fixed dollar amount that never reads your payroll.

The volume tier applies itself.

Seat twenty-one arrives and the whole roster reprices to $129 in the same billing cycle. Nobody has to ask, negotiate or sign anything new.

Pass-through means actuals, provably.

Salary and employer contributions appear on your invoice at the exact rupee figures we remitted, alongside the challans proving it.

Exit costs nothing by design.

Notice ends the arrangement and the last regular invoice closes it. Teams that stay because leaving is easy are the ones that stay longest.

No percentage-of-salary pricing, ever.

Many providers charge a slice of each salary, so your fee climbs every time you give a raise. Ours is a fixed dollar amount that never reads your payroll.

A raise for your team should not be a raise for your EOR.

The volume tier applies itself.

Seat twenty-one arrives and the whole roster reprices to $129 in the same billing cycle. Nobody has to ask, negotiate or sign anything new.

Discounts you must beg for are not discounts.

Pass-through means actuals, provably.

Salary and employer contributions appear on your invoice at the exact rupee figures we remitted, alongside the challans proving it.

Markup hides best inside conversion. We use the RBI rate.

Moving someone across

Switching providers costs nothing but a signature.

Teams already employed through another EOR or on contractor paper move onto our registration inside one payroll cycle, with no transition fee and every service date preserved.

Tenure Kept
Gratuity clock Kept
PF and UAN Continuous
Payroll gap 0 days

Our largest migration put 200 people on our books in a single cycle.

Supporting evidence

Verify who you would be paying first.

Invoices come from Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, incorporated in 2022.

  • Incorporation
  • GST
  • EPFO code
  • ESIC
  • Shops and Establishments
  • PAN and TAN
  • Udyam MSME
  • Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • GST Goods and Services Tax
  • EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
  • ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
  • PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
  • Udyam MSME Government of India

Ask for the registration certificate and we email the PDF, no call required.

200

employees onboarded to our registration in one billing cycle, every UAN intact

33

consecutive invoices to a single client over 26 months without one dispute

5 days

between a signed offer and the first salary accruing

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Clients on what the invoice actually feels like.

Finance leads and founders who pay us monthly describe the billing experience in their words.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

The complete price list. This is all of it.

Two products, two numbers. Employment runs $149 per person monthly and recruitment runs 12% of annual CTC. Everything else on your invoice is a rupee cost passed through at actuals.

Employer of Record

The flat monthly fee
$149 /employee/mo

Reprices to $129 for every seat once headcount passes twenty. Billed monthly in your currency with nothing owed up front or on exit.

Start hiring
  • Employment on our Bengaluru registration
  • Monthly PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS
  • Single consolidated USD invoice
  • Payroll live within five business days
  • A named compliance owner for your account
  • A payroll associate who knows your roster
  • Payslips and portal for every employee
  • Free transfer to your entity later
  • Employment on our Bengaluru registration
  • Monthly PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS
  • Single consolidated USD invoice
  • Payroll live within five business days
Four more line items
  • A named compliance owner for your account
  • A payroll associate who knows your roster
  • Payslips and portal for every employee
  • Free transfer to your entity later

Modelling more than twenty seats or a provider switch? Sales will price it live on a call.

Recruitment

The sourcing fee
12% of annual CTC

Applies to junior and mid-level searches. Senior searches run 15% and leadership mandates are scoped individually. Bring your own candidate and pay nothing.

Send us a role
  • Vetted shortlist inside nine days
  • Salary benchmarks for the exact role
  • Interviews scheduled on your calendar
  • Nothing billed until day ninety
  • Senior mandates priced at 15%
  • Leadership searches scoped per role
  • Zero charge on candidates you bring
  • Placement onto our entity or yours
  • Vetted shortlist inside nine days
  • Salary benchmarks for the exact role
  • Interviews scheduled on your calendar
  • Nothing billed until day ninety
Four more fee details
  • Senior mandates priced at 15%
  • Leadership searches scoped per role
  • Zero charge on candidates you bring
  • Placement onto our entity or yours

Multiple roles or a leadership search? Sales will quote the mandate directly.

The only discount we offer

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Cross twenty heads and every existing seat reprices along with the new one, no ask needed.

Inside the $149, itemised

  • A compliant contract issued by our entity
  • Payroll executed monthly with payslips
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS remitted
  • Gratuity accruing from the first day
  • Group health cover via our partner
  • Currency conversion at the RBI rate
  • Background verification, onboarding, Form 16
  • Full and final settlement on exit

Head twenty-one reprices the entire roster

$149 $129 /employee/mo

All seats drop to $129 in that billing cycle without an amendment, a call or a new term.

Itemised: what $149 buys

  • A compliant contract issued by our entity
  • Payroll executed monthly with payslips
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS remitted
  • Gratuity accruing from the first day
  • Group health cover via our partner
  • Currency conversion at the RBI rate
  • Background verification, onboarding, Form 16
  • Full and final settlement on exit

Recruitment invoices only on day ninety, at 12% of annual CTC for junior and mid-senior placements. Wages and employer contributions hit your invoice at the rupee amounts actually remitted. Hardware, workspace and insurance top-ups bill through partners at usage. Test any headcount in the EOR versus entity calculator before you commit to either path.

Pricing questions, answered without a sales call.

The eight money questions buyers put to us most, answered the way our team answers them live. The last one covers when paying us makes no sense.

How much does an EOR cost in India?

With us, $149 per employee per month flat, dropping to $129 for the whole team once you pass twenty heads. Salaries and employer statutory contributions are additional and pass through at their actual rupee cost, with no percentage taken and no markup added.

Are there setup fees, deposits or minimum terms?

None of the three. You pay nothing before the first payroll month, we hold no deposit, and there is no minimum headcount or contract length. Notice ends the engagement and your last regular invoice is the final cost.

What does the $149 fee actually include?

The employment contract on our Bengaluru entity, monthly payroll with payslips, remittance of PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS with proof, gratuity accrual, group health cover, background checks, Form 16, a named compliance contact and exit settlement. Nothing on that list bills separately.

What costs extra beyond the monthly fee?

Three things. The salary itself plus employer statutory contributions, passed through at actuals. Recruitment, if we source, at 12% of annual CTC billed on day ninety. And optional extras such as devices, workspace or upgraded insurance, billed through partners at usage.

How does your pricing compare to Deel or Multiplier?

Global platforms for India typically land between $300 and $600 per employee monthly, and some price as a percentage of salary. Our India-only model runs $149 flat regardless of what the employee earns, which is usually less than half the platform price at identical compliance coverage.

How do salary pass-throughs and currency conversion work?

We remit salaries and contributions in rupees, then convert the exact total at the RBI reference rate onto your USD invoice, attaching the challans and payslips as proof. The conversion carries no spread, which is where hidden margin usually lives.

When does the $129 volume rate apply?

The billing cycle in which your active headcount reaches twenty-one. Every seat reprices at once, including the original hires, and the rate holds without any renegotiation or fresh commitment. Fall back under the threshold and nothing punitive happens either.

At what point does an EOR stop being worth the fee?

Somewhere past forty to fifty steady heads, an owned subsidiary usually beats paying us, once its fixed overhead spreads thin enough. Short stints under three months are cheaper on contracts. We will tell you when the math turns against us, and transfer your team to your entity with tenure intact when it does.

Longer reading: EOR India 2026 · EOR India playbook · Pay employees in India

Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

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What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

  • A written cost breakdown
  • Entity documents before the call
  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
  • No follow-up sequence
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