Deel vs Native Teams vs 4dev.com

Pick Deel if breadth and procurement comfort matter more than the invoice. Its starting prices are $599 per employee a month for EOR and $325 for Contractor of Record; it claims 150+ countries and names SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Pick Native Teams if you want the lowest published entry prices: EOR from $99, Contractor of Record from $99 and contractor payments from $19, all "starts at" figures, in 95+ countries. 4dev.com is the option for contractors only: it is a Contractor of Record with "Service fee: 3% or less per payout".

Start with who you're adding. Putting someone on payroll abroad when you have no entity there means using an Employer of Record; Deel and Native Teams both sell one. With an entity already registered there, you are choosing a payroll tool instead.

For contractors, this pair offers more rungs than most. Deel has contractor management and a Contractor of Record; Native Teams has Contractor Pay and a Contractor of Record. The cheaper rung in each case leaves classification with you. The upper rung, sold by Deel, Native Teams and 4dev.com, makes the vendor the contracting party. Should the job be only to move money, a payout tool may do.

The two vendors sit at opposite ends of the price list. Deel lists EOR from $599 per employee a month; Native Teams lists it from $99. On Contractor of Record it is $325 against $99, and for the entry contractor product $49 against $19. These numbers are not like for like: Deel's are "starting at" prices per head, Native Teams' are "starts at" floors, and its page says custom quotes are available.

Coverage points the other way. Deel states coverage in 150+ countries, with owned entities in 130+. Its country pages cover employee hiring in 114 of them and contractor hiring in 136. Native Teams states 95+ countries on its pricing, EOR and About pages, while some help-centre copy says 85+; its EOR page lists 77 countries by region, so that list is a lower bound. The same page says employment runs through Native Teams' own entities, "not a network of partners", without giving an entity count. For any country outside the large markets, ask Native Teams to confirm it in writing and name the entity that will employ your hire.

Scope differs too. Native Teams adds gig payments and entity management as products, and describes itself around work payments: a multi-currency wallet, expense cards and batch transfers. Deel puts more weight on payroll depth and worker types, and names its contractor withdrawal options: 15+, including crypto, Wise and Revolut. Native Teams mentions multi-currency payments and cards but doesn't list payout methods or a currency count.

Deel's security list is long: GDPR, ISO 27001 and the SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports. Native Teams states GDPR, ISO and SOC 2 compliance and shows a PCI DSS badge, without naming the ISO standard or the SOC 2 type. If your procurement team asks for reports, that difference is the first thing they will see.

Don't read $99 against $599 as a 6x saving. Native Teams' figures are "starts at" prices with custom quotes on offer; Deel's are "starting at" prices too, and its Contractor of Record also requires a deposit equal to one month of the contractor's payment. Neither vendor publishes an FX markup. Get both to quote the same hires in the same countries, and compare product with product: COR with COR, contractor management with contractor payments.

Contractor management leaves you as the signatory opposite the contractor, so it is you who decides if the engagement is really independent. Deel's contractor management tier and Native Teams' Contractor Pay work this way, with agreements generated for you.

With a Contractor of Record, two contracts replace one: contractor to vendor, and vendor to you. At Deel, a COR engagement opens with an eligibility screen; any that fail are pointed to EOR, and the paperwork is a master services agreement plus a scope of work per engagement. Native Teams' COR plan lists localised contracts, tax handling and multi-currency payments, with Native Teams as the contracting party; its pricing page calls the plan misclassification protection, which is the vendor's wording. Reclassification risk falls with a COR but never disappears, since the actual working relationship must still read as independent. Request from each vendor its COR contract and the liability terms before you trust the marketing copy.

4dev.com fits when the people on your shortlist are contractors, not employees. Deel's COR and Native Teams' COR have the same job: the vendor sits as the contracting party for each contractor. The 4dev.com price is a percentage, "Service fee: 3% or less per payout", and a contractor pays 0%.

Set 10 contractors at $3,000 a month against the two COR prices. 4dev.com tops out at $900 a month, Native Teams' $99 plan comes to $990, and Deel's $325 comes to $3,250. A flat $99 undercuts 3% only for a contractor billing above $3,300 a month; for Deel's $325 the line is $10,833. One rung down, Native Teams' $19 contractor payments beat 3% from $633 a month and Deel's $49 from $1,633, though classification stays with you on those.

Contractors sign up on their own and are verified automatically. Paperwork means contracts that assign IP, invoices and closing documents, exportable at once, and there is an API with a Sandbox. The three payout routes are bank transfer (IBAN/SWIFT), card and USDT, reaching 150+ countries; per 4dev.com, they take 1–3 days. Trustpilot shows 4.1 across 56 reviews.

For employees, the questions are where and how deep. Deel's EOR runs on owned entities in 130+ countries. The US PEO starts at $125 per employee, and global payroll for your own entities has no list price on the pricing page and is quoted; Deel cites 50+ real-time payroll markets for it.

Native Teams' EOR starts at $99 per employee and includes onboarding, offboarding, local payroll, taxes and benefits, in 95+ countries. It also sells entity management from $149 a month, plus a one-time fee that varies by country, for companies setting up their own entity. That is a different route from EOR, and worth pricing if you plan to stay in a country. It doesn't publish onboarding days, only a relative claim of "3x faster", so ask for a start date per country. Broader shortlists: global payroll software, EOR providers.

Support. Deel's wording is "24/7 help" tailored to "your language and time zone", through chat, email, phone and WhatsApp. Native Teams lists email and a help centre staffed Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:00 CET; its sales live chat and WhatsApp keep the same hours, with a stated reply time of about 15 minutes. At 4dev.com, contractors and clients alike get a human reply by email or from the Help Center, in working hours.

Onboarding. Deel says an EOR hire may start within a day and comes with a dedicated onboarding manager; for contractors it says two days. Native Teams gives no figure in days. A 4dev.com contractor arrives by invitation or registers alone, clears KYC and then has the whole platform. Treat all of this as vendor claims rather than SLAs.

Benefits and integrations. The pricing FAQ at Deel puts benefits administration inside the EOR fee, with packages that vary by country. Native Teams includes benefits in its EOR plan description but doesn't publish the packages, so ask per country. Neither vendor publishes an integration count.

Deel holds 4.9 across 4,319 Capterra reviews, 4.7 across 7,396 on G2 and 4.6 across 9,731 on Trustpilot. For Native Teams, G2 gives 4.8 from 245 reviews, Capterra 4.5 from 122 and Trustpilot 3.5 from 287. G2 and Capterra scores are close, Trustpilot is not, and Deel's ratings rest on far more reviews. Most reviews of both come from people paid through the platform. Deel's reviewers like the simple app and fast payouts, and dislike withdrawal and conversion fees. Native Teams' reviewers like easy use, helpful named support and lower prices; they complain of late salaries, wrong invoices or charges, and slow support without a phone line, with business clients more split.

Plan a move between Deel and Native Teams as an exit plus a fresh start. Whichever vendor you leave, pull out the signed contracts and scopes of work, the invoices, each contractor's payout history by year, and this year's tax forms first. Contractors will onboard and pass KYC again.

If you move a Contractor of Record engagement, every contractor signs afresh with the new vendor, and leaving Deel raises the question of when the one-month deposit is returned. Employees on EOR can't be carried over: the old EOR terminates their employment and the new entity hires them, which puts notice periods, leave balances, benefits and probation on your checklist. Native Teams' EOR page lists only 77 countries against its 95+ claim, so confirm every country first.

On terms, Deel's FAQ says month to month, but a promotion on its pricing page ties free months to a two-year order form. Native Teams' pricing page states no contract length or cancellation terms.