# RUN Powered by ADP > ADP's payroll and HR service for US businesses of 1 to 49 people RUN Powered by ADP is ADP's payroll service for small US businesses. It runs payroll from the web, a phone app or a phone call, then files and pays federal, state and local payroll taxes. Four packages add state unemployment management, garnishment payments, an HR help desk and hiring tools in steps, and every price is quoted by ADP's sales team. - **Category:** Payroll - **Made by:** ADP, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/run-powered-by-adp.aspx - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing RUN Powered by ADP's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **3 months of payroll free** (Other savings): New RUN clients with 1 to 49 employees in the continental US who start payroll by October 22, 2026 get months 4, 5 and 6 of payroll processing free. Source: https://www.adp.com/terms/3-month-offer-terms.aspx ## Key features - **Payroll by web, app or phone:** Run payroll online, in the mobile app or by calling ADP. RUN & DONE repeats a recurring payroll without you starting it each time. - **Payroll tax filing:** ADP calculates, files, deposits and reconciles payroll taxes, answers tax agencies about them, and pays the penalties if it makes a filing error. - **ADP Assist:** An AI assistant that answers payroll and HR questions, flags likely mistakes before payroll runs and imports hours from an existing timesheet file. - **Multi-state and multi-company payroll:** Pay people who work in more than one state or locality in the same period, and report across several companies. - **HR tools by package:** Electronic onboarding comes with every package. Complete adds an HR help desk and handbook wizard; HR Pro adds CareerPlug hiring and online training. - **General ledger export:** Sends payroll journal entries to QuickBooks, Xero, Wave or Creative Solutions, or to a generic file, without retyping them. ## Good for - US businesses with up to 49 employees that want taxes filed for them - Owners who want payroll help by phone or chat at any hour - Small firms that expect to add HR support and hiring tools later ## Worth knowing - No prices are published: all four packages (Essential, Enhanced, Complete and HR Pro) are quoted after a form or a sales call. - Producing W-2 and 1099 forms costs extra, and time and attendance, retirement plans and workers' comp are add-ons. - State unemployment management, garnishment payments and job costing are left out of Essential; the HR help desk starts at Complete. - RUN covers US payroll in all 50 states; ADP sells other products for larger firms and for payroll in other countries. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. RUN is ADP's payroll for businesses of 1 to 49 people, and it does the lot: taxes filed, payroll by app or by phone, HR help on the bigger packages. Its app has the best rating in this category. The catch is that there's no price on the page, so you'll talk to sales before you know what it costs. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published: all four packages, Essential to HR Pro, are quoted after a form or a call, so there's no five-person figure to set against Gusto's $79 or ADP's own Roll at $64. W-2 and 1099 forms cost extra on top. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial. New clients who start payroll by 22 October 2026 get months 4, 5 and 6 free, but you pay for the first three, so it's a discount rather than a trial. - **Features: B.** Payroll by web, app or a phone call, taxes filed with ADP paying penalties for its own errors, multi-state and multi-company payroll, onboarding, and an HR help desk and hiring tools on the higher packages. The whole job, in steps. - **Ease of use: A.** 4.92 from about 51,700 App Store ratings, the highest in this category. RUN & DONE repeats a regular payroll without you starting it, and ADP Assist flags likely mistakes before payroll runs. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with ledger exports to QuickBooks, Xero and Wave and links to Clover, ZipRecruiter and CareerPlug. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ADP's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among payroll services - RUN Powered by ADP's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 18 other payroll services we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on ease of use (A, above 9 of 18) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace RUN Powered by ADP you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could make: Time tracking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks, Xero and Wave among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.9 out of 5 from 51,735 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id388928133 ## Works with QuickBooks, Xero, Wave, Clover, ZipRecruiter, CareerPlug **Tags:** Payroll, Time tracking, AI features ## Alternatives - [Paychex Flex](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paychex-flex): Paychex's payroll, tax filing and HR platform, priced by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adp-run-vs-paychex-flex) - [Gusto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gusto): Payroll and HR for small businesses, with apps for owners and staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adp-run-vs-gusto) - [QuickBooks Workforce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks-payroll): Intuit's payroll and HR service, sold alone or with QuickBooks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adp-run-vs-quickbooks-payroll) - [OnPay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/onpay): US payroll with published prices, plus HR and time add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adp-run-vs-onpay) - [Roll by ADP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/roll-by-adp): Chat-based payroll app for very small US businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adp-run-vs-roll-by-adp) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/run-powered-by-adp.aspx - https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/payroll/payroll-for-1-49-employees/payroll-packages.aspx - https://www.adp.com/terms/3-month-offer-terms.aspx - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adp-run/id388928133 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adp.run.mobile&gl=US&hl=en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/adp-run Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).