# Workmotion review (2026): is it worth $31 a month? > Employer of record, direct hiring and contractor management Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Workmotion is a Berlin-born service for hiring and paying people abroad. It offers an employer-of-record route, a direct-hiring route where the company registers its own entity, and contractor management, plus an AI candidate-sourcing product. Prices are per person per month in euros, dollars, pounds or francs. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** WorkMotion - **Website:** https://workmotion.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you hire one or two people, as $549 a person a month is a starting rate. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Workmotion is a paid product, starting at $31 per contractor / month. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Contractor management | $31 per contractor / month, and up | Contractor invoices, projects and payments in 160+ countries, with misclassification checks. | | Direct Hiring | $429 per talent / month, and up | Register as an employer in another country for a longer-term presence; sold through sales. | | Employer of Record | $549 per talent / month, and up | Hire in 160+ countries without opening entities; the euro price is €499. Sold through sales. | Read from https://workmotion.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Workmotion before buying. ## Key features - **Employer of record:** Hires people in 160+ countries through Workmotion's subsidiary network, with contract negotiation, payroll and benefits handled for the employer. - **Direct hiring:** Helps a company register as an employer in another country, with legal and HR guidance and custom benefits, for a longer-term presence. - **Contractor management:** Manages international contractors and freelancers, their invoices and projects, and pays them in 160+ countries. - **Payroll and expenses:** Payroll management and expense management are part of the platform, which also covers onboarding and offboarding. - **AI-sourced candidates:** Synmatch AI supplies pre-screened candidates through AI interviews and identity checks, free when hired through Workmotion's EOR or Direct Hiring. ## Good for - Companies hiring in several countries without entities - Teams managing international freelancers - German and European businesses expanding abroad ## Worth knowing - Every plan routes to Talk To Sales; the listed figures are starting prices per person. - Synmatch AI is free only when the hire goes through Workmotion's EOR or Direct Hiring; otherwise it takes a 10% commission on gross annual starting salary. - Hiring in Switzerland is handled on a separate site, WorkMotion Switzerland. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Workmotion hires people abroad through an employer of record from $549 a person a month, or handles contractors from $31. Everything goes through sales, and the prices are starting rates. - **Value for money: D.** $549 a person a month for employer of record, $429 for direct hiring and $31 a contractor, all above the category's $86 dearest-tenth line. It is a different service, but it costs more than its listed rival RemoFirst at $199. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record in the listing, and a money-back guarantee would not count as one. - **Features: C.** Employer of record, direct hiring, contractor management and payroll in 160+ countries. Switzerland is handled on a separate site. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Hiring abroad means contracts and onboarding in each country. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with BambooHR, HiBob, Personio and Workday listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Workmotion's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Workmotion's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 22 of 63) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $31 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 31 of the 36 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Workmotion 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 51 of the 63 other HR software grade higher. It costs $372 a year. - You could make: Expense tracking, employee records and time off: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with BambooHR, HiBob, Personio, Workday **Tags:** Payroll, Expense tracking, Employee records, Time off ## Alternatives - [RemoFirst](https://toolgpa.com/tools/remofirst): Employer of record and contractor payments for global hiring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/remofirst-vs-workmotion) - [Lano](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lano): Global payroll consolidation, employer of record and contractors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lano-vs-workmotion) - [Personio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio): European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/personio-vs-workmotion) - [HiBob](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hibob): HR platform for mid-sized global firms, with US and UK payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hibob-vs-workmotion) - [BambooHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bamboohr): HR records, hiring, time off and reviews, with US payroll as an add-on. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-workmotion) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://workmotion.com/pricing/ - https://workmotion.com - https://workmotion.com/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/workmotion Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).