Best EOR in South East Asia
Best Employer of Record (EOR) Providers in Southeast Asia in 2026
Key takeaways
• Published EOR fees run from USD 199 to USD 699 per employee per month. Remote People is lowest, Remote is highest, and MixWork and Omni HR both publish USD 249.
• Only two providers here publish a combined recruitment and employment rate: MixWork at 10% of first-year salary and Glints TalentHub at 18%, both success-based.
• Headline fees have converged, so the real variable is what the fee includes. Workspace, devices, HR supervision and performance management are priced separately by most platforms.
• Choose a specialist for single-market depth, and a global platform when you are hiring across many countries at once.
Disclosure: MixWork is an employer of record operating in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, and we are listed below, at number four. We have named where each other provider is the better choice, and where competitors beat us we have said so. Read this as an informed operator’s view rather than a neutral audit, and see our comparison methodology and disclaimers for the standards we hold ourselves to.
Ordering: providers are ordered roughly by how many Southeast Asia buyers each category fits, broadest first. It is not a quality ranking, and the order is not a scoring system.
The Employer of Record market in Southeast Asia has consolidated around a narrow band of pricing and a very wide band of what that price actually buys. For companies in Singapore, Australia, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and beyond building teams across Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia or Thailand, the EOR you choose is the legal entity your team is employed through and the operational layer your people management runs on.
This guide covers eight providers operating in Southeast Asia in 2026: what each is built for, who it serves best, and where it falls short. Every price and term below was read from the provider’s own published pages on 9 August 2026, and every source is listed at the end.
How we assessed each provider
How clearly they publish price. Whether a real per-employee figure exists at all, or only a sales call.
What the fee actually includes. Which capabilities are bundled and which are priced separately: workspace, equipment, engagement and performance tooling are usually extra.
Southeast Asia depth versus global breadth. We separated total platform coverage from EOR-specific coverage, because they are rarely the same number.
Deposits and minimum terms. How much working capital is committed up front.
What happens on the ground. Who physically handles a dispute, a termination or a failed laptop.
Where a provider does not publish something, we say "not published". That means it was not on their public pages on 9 August 2026 — not that they cannot or do not provide it.
1. Deel — best if Southeast Asia is one of several regions
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA · EOR coverage: 130+ countries (150+ across the wider platform) · Published price: USD 599 per employee per month
Deel is the broadest general-purpose employment platform in this comparison and it has built owned legal entities across much of its footprint, including a wholly owned Jakarta entity. If you are hiring across dozens of countries and want one dashboard, Deel’s breadth is the reason to pick it.
Genuinely good at: product depth. Compliant contracts, payroll, statutory filings, equity and stock option administration, background checks and immigration support. Time tracking is included at no extra charge and works with EOR. Deel Engage covers surveys, 360 reviews, goals and OKRs. Contractor management runs at USD 49 per contractor per month, and Contractor of Record at USD 325. Deel also offers workspace access through WeWork across 700+ locations in 38 countries at USD 299 per employee per month, billed on the Deel invoice, and Deel Talent, a success-based sourcing product combining an AI-vetted candidate marketplace with vetted recruiting partners, carrying a 90-day recruitment guarantee. Deel is independently well reviewed at 4.9 out of 5 across 4,299 Capterra reviews.
Watch-outs: a standard EOR deposit of 1 to 1.5 times all monthly charges applies, rising to two months in certain circumstances including removing probation or extending notice — that materially changes first-year cash cost. Deel publishes no response-time SLA and does not disclose which tiers include a dedicated customer success manager. Equipment is fulfilled from hubs in London, Amsterdam and Houston with no Asia-Pacific hub, and express shipping covers the UK, EU and US only. Workspace access is fulfilled by WeWork, a third party, and is a separate USD 299 per person per month on top of the EOR fee.
Best for: enterprises and scaling companies hiring across 20+ countries simultaneously that need a single software-first global platform.
2. Remote — best published pricing transparency
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA · EOR coverage: 90+ countries (190+ locations across all products) · Published price: USD 699 per employee per month
Remote is a software-first EOR founded in 2019 and built for high-growth technology companies with distributed teams. Its pricing page is the most honest in the category, and its IP protection policies are a genuine consideration for technology companies hiring internationally.
Genuinely good at: honesty about cost. No platform, onboarding or setup fees. No upfront deposits except in rare high-risk cases. No minimum headcount. A 15% discount for startups and social-purpose organisations. Payroll-only is USD 29 per employee per month and a dedicated onboarding specialist is included at the base tier. On deposits, Remote beats MixWork outright — we require 1 to 2 months and Remote requires nothing.
Watch-outs: the highest published headline fee here. Note the coverage distinction: the widely quoted 190+ figure is locations where Remote can help you hire, pay or manage across all products — EOR specifically is 90+ countries. Device management is fulfilled by Fleet, a third party, with no published delivery timeline for any region and no published price. No response-time SLA, no numeric Indonesia onboarding commitment, and a payroll cut-off on the 10th of the month that constrains start dates.
Best for: technology startups and scale-ups with strong internal HR capability that need automated compliance across a wide footprint.
3. Multiplier — best Asia-first global platform
Headquarters: Singapore · Coverage: 150+ countries · Advertised price: from USD 275 per employee per month (Multiplier’s own advertising, accessed 17 August 2026). Its pricing page was not directly readable on that date, and its rates have moved more than once in recent months
Multiplier is Singapore-founded with genuine Southeast Asian roots and a product that reflects a more Asia-aware design sensibility than US-centric competitors. It repriced onto published tiers during 2026, and now sits between the low-cost specialists and the USD 599 to 699 global platforms.
Genuinely good at: transparent tiered pricing with no minimum headcount, and a stated commitment to upfront pricing with no hidden fees or banking markups. 24x7 dedicated customer support is published on the pricing page. IT Assets covers end-to-end procurement, delivery, returns and deployment in 130+ countries. Health, life and travel insurance and background verification are available as add-ons. Global Payroll starts at USD 20 per employee per month.
Watch-outs: the published Southeast Asia evidence is thinner than the regional positioning implies. There is no Indonesia-specific rate, no Indonesia case study and no Indonesia onboarding figure. Around 11% of supported countries carry adjusted pricing that Multiplier does not enumerate, so the headline tier may not be your rate. Country counts differ across their own pages: 150+ on the pricing page, 160+ in its FAQ.
Best for: startups and SMBs hiring across multiple Southeast Asian markets that want an Asia-first platform with published pricing and their own recruitment function.
4. MixWork — best for Indonesia-focused teams that want people found as well as employed
Headquarters: Singapore, with a Jakarta office · Coverage: Indonesia and Southeast Asia · Published price: EOR from USD 249 per employee per month
That is us. Most EOR providers require you to arrive with a candidate already hired; the EOR’s job starts at the contract. We do the half that comes before it, and the half that comes after.
Genuinely good at, first: recruitment. Our talent sourcing arm is the part of the business clients come to us for most often, and it serves SMEs and enterprise clients alike. You are not assigned one end-to-end recruiter working a role alone — searches are run by an experienced recruitment team, which is what makes a wide-net search across a market this large actually work. Indonesia has a deep pool of managers and specialists who built their careers inside multinationals and global agencies, and that is the pool we recruit from. It is the specific counter to the idea that offshore hiring means buying cheap labour. The engagement starts with a strategy session on the role’s actual impact, runs sourcing across Indonesia’s professional platforms and our own networks, applies multi-stage vetting, and returns a shortlist ready for your final round. From 10% of first-year salary, success-based — no retainer, and nothing owed on an unsuccessful search. Of the eight providers here, only Glints TalentHub also publishes a combined recruitment and employment offering, at 18% of first-year salary.
And second: the operational layer, included rather than brokered. Total Care 360 is included with the EOR at no extra cost: a named HR manager in Indonesia who is your point of contact, backed by a full HR team rather than working alone, plus monthly employee check-in calls and separate monthly client check-in calls, engagement and dispute resolution, and performance and attendance monitoring. Platforms sell equivalents as separately priced modules through third parties. Retention across our book runs above 90% — the number that actually settles whether the recruitment worked.
And third: everything we run on was built for this region. South East Asia is the only region we work in, so our internal procedures, our compliance monitoring, our AI-assisted workflows, and our own management dashboard and employee app are designed around how employment actually works here rather than configured as one more country inside a global product. A platform covering 130 or 180 countries has to build for the average of all of them; working in one region is what lets us build for it specifically. It is also why the people answering your questions work in your team’s time zone.
The rest of the rate card is published rather than quoted: Dedicated Workspaces from USD 199 per workspace per month; MixWork Managed IT from USD 99 per device per month with no deposit, no upfront payment and a three-month minimum, with devices held in-region; Flex Benefits from USD 29 per employee per month.
A structural difference worth naming: our offices and workspaces in Singapore and Jakarta are run by us. The comparable offering from the largest platform on this list is brokered through WeWork, a third party, at USD 299 per person per month. That is not a criticism of WeWork — it is a different accountability structure. When a workspace problem, an equipment failure or an employee dispute lands, ours is handled by our own people in-country rather than passed to a partner network. It is also why our workspace price is 199 rather than 299.
Watch-outs, honestly: we are the wrong choice if you need to hire across many countries — a global platform will beat us on footprint and we will tell you so. Our EOR requires a security deposit of 1 to 2 months, roughly comparable to Deel’s and worse than Remote’s, which requires none. We engage people only as full-time permanent employees on compliant Indonesian contracts, so if you need contractor, freelancer or contractor-of-record services, we do not offer them and three providers on this list do. Two providers here publish a lower entry price than ours. We do not publish a self-serve rate card with instant checkout.
Best for: companies in Singapore, Australia, the UAE and the Gulf — SME through enterprise — building Indonesian teams that want the people found, employed, supported and retained by one partner rather than only payrolled.
5. Glints TalentHub — best combined recruitment and EOR across Southeast Asia
Headquarters: Singapore · Coverage: 13 markets — Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau · Published price: EOR from USD 399 per employee per month; full-suite adds a one-time recruitment fee of 18% of first-year salary
Glints TalentHub grew out of Glints, one of the region’s leading recruitment and job platforms, into a combined recruitment-plus-EOR service. It also offers a PEO option for companies that already hold a local entity.
Genuinely good at: sourcing depth. Its origins as a recruitment platform give it in-market sourcing teams, a real differentiator over pure-play EOR providers, and it is one of only two providers here publishing a combined recruitment and employment rate. If you need to both find and employ people across several Southeast Asian countries at once, it covers more ground than a standard EOR.
Watch-outs: the final EOR rate varies by country and the published figure is a floor. Managed office space, device provisioning and performance management are not published on its pages — which is not a statement that they are unavailable, only that you would need to ask.
Best for: companies building multi-country teams across Southeast Asia that want a service-led provider with regional recruitment capability.
6. Omni HR — best if you want EOR inside a broader HR platform
Headquarters: Singapore · Coverage: Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific focus · Published price: EOR from USD 249 per employee per month
Omni HR is a modern HR platform that sells EOR as one module alongside leave, attendance, expenses, performance and payroll, rather than as the whole product. Its core platform starts at USD 3 per employee per month, with modules from USD 1 to 4 and a Growth bundle at USD 7.
Genuinely good at: consolidation and price transparency across the stack. If your problem is that HR data is scattered across four tools and you also need to employ a few people in the region, Omni HR addresses both from one system. Its published EOR rate matches ours at USD 249 — we are not cheaper.
Watch-outs: it is a younger entrant than most of this list, and its published country detail is thinner — payroll is explicitly named for Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Philippines, with EOR described more broadly across Asia-Pacific. Confirm your specific country is covered before you commit.
Best for: small and mid-sized businesses in Singapore and Southeast Asia wanting a unified HR operations platform that also handles regional EOR.
7. Remote People (formerly Horizons) — lowest published entry price
Headquarters: New York, USA · Coverage: 150+ countries · Published price: from USD 199 per employee per month
Note on the name: this provider rebranded from Horizons to Remote People on 9 February 2026, and joinhorizons.com now redirects to remotepeople.com. It is a separate company from Remote, listed at number two above, despite the similar name.
Genuinely good at: price. At USD 199 it publishes the lowest entry point in this comparison, across a 150+ country footprint that includes Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Beyond EOR it offers in-house recruitment, contractor management, US PEO and entity incorporation advisory.
Watch-outs: as with every "from" price, the rate varies by country and the entry figure is a floor rather than a quote. No Southeast Asia-specific service commitments are published.
Best for: companies making a first, cost-sensitive entry into an Asia-Pacific market who want an established global entity network at a low headline fee.
8. G-P (Globalization Partners) — best for enterprise-scale global expansion
Headquarters: Boston, USA · Coverage: 180+ countries · Published price: from USD 599 per employee per month
G-P is one of the longest-established EOR providers in the world, with the broadest published country coverage in this comparison and a strong reputation among large enterprises for compliance credibility.
Genuinely good at: footprint and flat-rate predictability. A flat platform fee rather than a percentage of payroll, across 180+ countries, covering automated onboarding, local payroll, tax filings, benefits administration and ongoing legal and HR support. Contrary to a common assumption, G-P is not enterprise-only: it publishes the same USD 599 entry rate with no minimum headcount and runs a dedicated startups programme.
Watch-outs: its product is built around multi-country, multi-currency, multi-entity complexity, which is more machinery than a company building one Southeast Asian team needs. G-P does not publish details of its own entity structure on its EOR pages, so if owned-versus-partner entities matter to your risk assessment, ask directly.
Best for: enterprises with complex multi-country workforces that prioritise the broadest compliance footprint.
Side-by-side comparison
| Provider | Published EOR price | Coverage | Best suited for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deel | USD 599/employee/month, plus deposit of 1–1.5× monthly charges | 130+ countries (EOR) | Hiring across many countries at once |
| Remote | USD 699/employee/month; no setup fees, no deposit, no minimum | 90+ countries (EOR) | The clearest published pricing in the category |
| Multiplier | Advertised from USD 275/employee/month (accessed 17 Aug 2026) | 150+ countries | Asia-first platform; rates have repriced repeatedly |
| MixWork | From USD 249/employee/month; deposit of 1–2 months; recruitment from 10% of first-year salary; Total Care 360 included | Indonesia and SEA | Finding the people as well as employing and retaining them |
| Glints TalentHub | From USD 399/employee/month, plus 18% of first-year salary on full-suite | 13 markets | Combined recruitment and EOR across SEA |
| Omni HR | From USD 249/employee/month | SEA / APAC focus | EOR inside a broader HR operations platform |
| Remote People | From USD 199/employee/month | 150+ countries | Lowest published entry price |
| G-P | From USD 599/employee/month | 180+ countries | The broadest compliance footprint |
The number nobody publishes: what the fee actually includes
Headline EOR fees in Southeast Asia have converged into a narrow band, and the spread between the cheapest and most expensive provider on this list is USD 500 per employee per month. For a team of eight that is real money, but it is rarely the largest variable in what you actually pay.
To compare honestly, add:
- Employer BPJS contributions across both the health and employment programmes, each with its own rates and salary caps.
- THR accrual — the statutory religious holiday allowance, roughly a month of salary per year of service, and a real cash-flow event if billed as a lump sum rather than accrued monthly.
- A severance reserve. Indonesia is not an at-will jurisdiction and statutory severance scales with tenure. A provider that does not discuss this is deferring a cost, not avoiding it.
- FX spread on converting your billing currency to rupiah, frequently unpublished.
- Deposit lock-up — working capital you cannot use for the life of the engagement.
- The separately priced layer. Workspace, devices, engagement tooling and performance management are add-ons on most platforms. On this list, MixWork is the only provider that includes an HR supervision layer in the base fee; everyone else either prices it separately or does not offer it.
We keep the underlying Indonesian figures in dedicated guides rather than restating them here, because rates and caps change. Or model your own numbers with our cost calculator.
How we compare, and how these claims are substantiated
This page compares published commercial terms, not service quality. Every figure attributed to each provider was read directly from that provider’s own published pages on 9 August 2026, and each source is listed below. We hold copies of those pages as they appeared on that date. Our full comparison methodology and disclaimers sets out the standards we apply.
- We compare like with like. Where two offerings are not directly comparable, we say so rather than implying an advantage.
- "Not published" means exactly that. Where we note that a provider does not publish something, we mean it was not on their public pages on 9 August 2026. It is not a statement that they cannot or do not provide it.
- We make no claim about any provider’s service quality. We have not used customer complaints or negative review commentary to argue our case.
- We name where each provider is stronger, including where they beat us. A comparison that finds no merit in the alternatives is not a comparison.
- Figures go out of date. Third-party pricing and terms change without notice and we do not monitor them continuously. Verify current terms against each provider’s own pages before you contract.
Spotted something inaccurate or out of date? Email support@mixwork.co with the statement and a link to the correct source, and we will verify and correct or remove it promptly. That invitation applies to competitors as much as customers.
Sources
Every third-party figure on this page was read from the following provider-published pages, all accessed 9 August 2026.
- Deel pricing page — https://www.deel.com/pricing/
- Deel Workspaces — https://www.deel.com/workspaces/
- Deel help centre, adding coworking access (USD 299 figure) — https://help.letsdeel.com/hc/en-gb/articles/9523915934225-Adding-Coworking-Access-for-Employees-or-Contractors
- Deel talent sourcing — https://www.deel.com/hr/talent-sourcing/
- Deel help centre, EOR deposit calculations — https://help.letsdeel.com/hc/en-gb/articles/15574494993297-About-EOR-Deposit-Calculations
- Remote pricing page — https://remote.com/pricing
- Remote country explorer — https://remote.com/country-explorer
- Multiplier pricing page — https://www.usemultiplier.com/pricing
- Glints TalentHub — https://talenthub.glints.com/
- Glints TalentHub pricing — https://talenthub.glints.com/pricing
- Omni HR pricing — https://omnihr.co/pricing
- Remote People employer of record — https://remotepeople.com/solutions/employer-of-record/
- G-P employer of record solutions — https://www.globalization-partners.com/employer-of-record-solutions/
MixWork’s own figures are published on our pricing page.
Changelog, 17 August 2026: Multiplier updated to its advertised starting rate of USD 275 per employee per month after a further reprice. Its own pricing page could not be read directly on that date, so the figure is taken from Multiplier’s own advertising and is labelled advertised rather than published.
Changelog, 9 August 2026: full verification pass. All eight providers re-verified against their own published pages. Corrected: G-P pricing (USD 599, previously stated as USD 699+), Glints TalentHub pricing and coverage (from USD 399, 13 markets, previously stated as custom pricing and seven markets), Omni HR pricing (from USD 249, previously stated as custom), and Deel and Remote EOR-specific country counts. Horizons renamed to Remote People following its 9 February 2026 rebrand, with headquarters and coverage corrected. Removed unsubstantiated characterisations of provider support quality and FX practices. MixWork moved from position one to position four with disclosure.
All third-party names and marks are the property of their respective owners, and MixWork is not affiliated with or endorsed by any provider listed. Provider pricing and terms change without notice — verify against the provider’s own pages before contracting. Nothing here is legal or tax advice; Indonesian employment documents should be reviewed by qualified Indonesian labour counsel. See our comparison methodology and disclaimers.
