Versatile is the India-native EOR for US and UK companies. $149 a month, flat. Onboarded in five days. Founder on WhatsApp.
Built by people who placed engineers at LinkedIn, Swiggy, and Lenskart. We know the country, not just the contract.
$149 per employee, flat. No setup fee. No exit fee. The number on the page is the number on the invoice.
Sagar replies on WhatsApp within four hours. Every account, every month. No ticketing system, no rotation.
PF Trust. Gratuity from day one. Professional tax across 28 states. Zero notices in four years of operations.
"We need someone in India. Soon."
WhatsApp Sagar. Reply in hours.
Contract → docs → live payroll. Five days.
First paycheck. On time. Every time.
The first India hire is a different problem from the fortieth. We do both, without making either feel templated.
For US founders who've never run payroll outside their home country. We hold your hand through the things that look obvious, and the things that don't.
"I'd never hired internationally. Sagar walked me through the first contract on a Tuesday call. By Monday she was on payroll."
For Series A and B teams growing their India footprint without growing their compliance overhead. We keep up. We don't slow you down.
"We went from two engineers to fourteen in six months. Versatile kept up. No 'let me check with my manager' delays."
No 30-day sales cycle. No legal back-and-forth. The whole thing, day by day.
Live payroll. Compliance status. Document trail. One login, end-to-end visibility, built for the CFO, not the recruiter.
No setup fee. No exit fee. No FX charge. First month free. The number on this page is the number on the invoice. Every month, in dollars, end of story.
No marketing fluff. The eight things US founders actually compare across India EOR providers.
| Versatile | Deel | Remote | Multiplier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India-native team | Yes | Outsourced | Outsourced | Yes |
| USD invoicing | Default | Yes | Yes | INR by default |
| Setup fee | $0 | $500 | $299 | $0 |
| Exit fee | None | 1 mo notice | 1 mo notice | 2 weeks notice |
| Founder access | Direct WhatsApp | Tier 3 support | Ticket queue | CSM email |
| Onboarding SLA | 5 days | 7–14 days | 10–14 days | 7 days |
| States covered | All 28 | Top 6 | Top 4 | All 28 |
| PF Trust setup | Yes | EPFO only | EPFO only | EPFO only |
| Pricing per emp | $149/mo flat | $599/mo | $599/mo | $400/mo |
Eight statutory items. End-to-end. Across 28 Indian states. Zero notices in four years.
12% employer match. PF Trust setup, not just EPFO transfer.
For employees under threshold. Auto-managed monthly.
State-specific filing across 28 jurisdictions.
Deducted, deposited, reported by the 7th every month.
Accrued from month one, not month sixty.
Shops & Establishments, leave, state-specific rules.
Issued to each employee by 30 May.
Exit settlement, end-to-end, on departure.
All eight statutory items handled per state. PF, ESI, TDS, gratuity, professional tax, the rest. Disbursed on time, in INR to bank, while you get one clean USD invoice. Zero notices in four years.
Each Indian state has its own professional tax slabs, Shops & Establishments registration, and labour rules. Most global EORs cover three or four. We cover all of them, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, where the rules change often and the consequences for getting it wrong are real.
No ticketing system. No CSM rotation. No "your account manager is on PTO." The number on this page is Sagar's actual WhatsApp. He answers every account, every month, and has done so personally for four years.
This breaks at scale. Around customer one-fifty, it'll have to change. That's why it's worth using now, while it's still genuinely true.
I built Versatile because every US founder I met was getting burned by their first India hire. Slow contracts. Mystery FX. Compliance surprises. I take this personally. That's why my number is on every page.
Every hire is a journey from one place to another. The passport is compliance. The ticket is the contract. Below: three founders who flew with us.
"They went through every objection my CFO had: taxation, FX, exit risk, before I even raised them. Felt like having an India ops team without hiring one."
"Switched from Deel for our India team. Same compliance, half the calls, USD invoicing instead of INR. The math finally made sense."
"Versatile kept up. No 'let me check with my manager' delays. They just shipped. The compliance backstop is what let us hire this fast."
We were dreading our first India hire. Versatile got our designer onboarded in four days. The pricing matched the email. Sagar texts back in an hour.
Switched from Deel for our India team. Same compliance, half the calls, USD invoicing instead of INR. The math finally made sense.
Scaled from two engineers to fourteen in six months. Versatile kept up. No "let me check with my manager" delays. They just shipped.
The compliance depth is the part nobody talks about. Versatile flagged a TDS issue our last EOR had been quietly filing wrong for two years.
From PAN to PF Trust to professional tax. The practical primer most EOR sites skip past.
Why a PF Trust setup matters for senior hires, and what it costs you in year five if you didn't bother.
All-in cost comparison across SF, NYC, London, and the four major Indian metros. Honest numbers, our internal data.
15-minute call. No deck, no slides. Tell us who you want to hire and we'll tell you what it costs in dollars by tomorrow morning.
Our excellent customer support team is ready to help.
This invite-only discussion is only for agency owners with 50-200 employees.