Deel

Deel’s analytics come with the Deel plan and work best when your people data is there

Permissions, an AI with no extra fee, and your own AI tool

It suits companies that already run people and payroll on Deel

Some features are still rolling out, and Deel is in legal disputes

Two things shape your risk with Deel. Some features are still arriving, and Deel is in legal disputes. The disputes come first, because your legal team will want to read about them before you sign. The features come after them. Deel filed a civil lawsuit against Rippling, another HR platform, in a Delaware court. It filed federal counterclaims in April 2026. Deel has denied Rippling’s allegations from the beginning. In Deel’s words, Rippling has run a public and legal campaign against it since March 2025.

Deel reports that a federal court in Florida dismissed fraud-based and racketeering (RICO) claims against it on 20 August 2025. A racketeering case, People Center, Inc. v. Deel, Inc., was filed in a California federal court on 17 March 2025. The case has docket entries dated September 2026. Your legal team can read the record of each case.

For background on the supplier, Deel announced a $300 million Series E at a $17.3 billion valuation. Ribbit Capital co-led it with Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue Management. Earlier it announced a $425 million Series D at $5.5 billion. Deel acquired Zavvy, a people development platform. It also announced that it is acquiring PaySpace.

What Deel costs, where its prices disagree, and how you leave

Deel’s own pages give two entry prices, so your first job is to get one price in writing. Deel’s HR pages put Core at $5 per person per month. A Deel post of 5 September 2025 puts Deel HR as free for any size company. Before that it was free for up to 200 users. Ask Deel which price applies to you.

On Deel’s HR pages, plans are priced per person per month. Core costs $5 and includes the HR system. Deel’s Core covers people analytics and reporting across all workforce data. Advanced costs $19 and Elite costs $29. Hiring is priced separately. For every 100 people, that is $500 a month on Core, $1,900 on Advanced and $2,900 on Elite.

Engage, the survey and performance product, is priced on its own. A Deel post of 5 September 2025 puts Engage at $20 per user per month. The UK Crown Commercial Service awarded a contract for 400 licences of Deel Engage to Lets Deel Ltd. The total value is £77,664. That is about £194 per licence for the whole contract term. Check the contract’s start and end dates before you compare it with $20 a month.

Deel offers month-to-month pricing with no long-term commitments. A customer can cancel at any time. Only organisation admins can submit an account deletion request. So make sure someone on your side holds the admin role. Report data downloads as CSV or Excel. A detailed People report downloads as CSV or PDF. Deel also supports streaming salary, tax and employer cost data into your own reporting tools. Ask how every other record comes out when you leave.

Ten questions to put to Deel before you sign

1. Which analytics features come in Core, Advanced and Elite, and which need Engage, Compensation or Workforce Planning? Good answer: A written list by plan, with the price of every add-on.
2. Is my account on Analytics 2.0 today? When will each feature you showed me reach it? Good answer: Yes, or a date for each missing feature, written into the order.
3. How often does each data set refresh? Is a saved report live? Good answer: A stated refresh time for every data set, in writing.
4. Who holds the View all and Build and share all roles, and can I limit them? Good answer: A short list of named roles. Everyone else sees only the fields I set.
5. Does Signals flag the risk of leaving for a named person or only for a group? Which communication and calendar data does it read? Good answer: Group level by default, with every data source named and switchable off.
6. How complete is the salary data for my countries and roles, and when does it next update? Good answer: Coverage by country and role, and an update date later than April 2025.
7. What can an AI agent change in my account through your AI-tool connection? Can I limit it to reading? Good answer: A read-only option for analytics, with every action logged.
8. Is Deel HR free for my company, or do I pay $5 per person for Core? Good answer: One price in writing, with the date it holds until.
9. Could the legal cases involving Deel affect my contract or my service? Good answer: A plain written answer, and a clause that lets me leave if service changes.
10. When I leave, how do I get all my people records out at once, not report by report? Good answer: A full export in a stated format and time window, written into the contract.

Alternatives to Deel

If Deel comes off your shortlist, Rippling, Visier and One Model cover the same need in different ways. Your own HR system’s reports are another route, and buying nothing is the last.

Rippling is also an HR platform with analytics built in. It connects business data from Salesforce, GitHub or a warehouse to the people behind it. Its US pricing starts at $8 per employee per month, with a monthly base fee.

Visier and One Model suit a company that keeps its HR and payroll systems. Both work as one analytics layer across those systems. One Model brings together HRIS, ATS, payroll, engagement, performance, finance and other business data into one HR data model. Visier maps the systems a customer runs into one workforce model. Where Visier prices by employee capacity, extra employees may be bought in blocks of at least 1,000.

Buying nothing is a real option. If you already pay for an HR system, check its own reports first. Deel’s Core price already includes reporting across all workforce data. A separate tool only earns its cost if the reports in Deel or in your HR system fall short. Our page for companies whose HR system has analytics covers that route. Our comparison page sets the researched products side by side.