Provider at a glance
- Category
- Crypto Payroll
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- deel.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 83 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Deel
Global payroll and employer of record
Crypto Payroll
#1 Overall
Ranked #1 of 7 crypto payroll in the published ranking
83
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Deel right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Compliant coverage where you employ6/10, the category best
- Cost clarity per seat7/10; the category best is 8
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Custody of payroll float5/10 here; Papaya Global scores 7
- Tax forms & filing coverage7/10 here; Toku scores 8
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best crypto payroll platform shows where it lands for you.
What will Deel cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Deel?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Deel
Compare all 4- 2Toku5 points below · stronger on tax filings (8 against 7)78
- 3Bitwage (a Paystand company)18 points below · stronger on float custody (6 against 5)65$240
- 4Papaya Global20 points below · stronger on float custody (7 against 5)63
For your setup
Find out if Deel fits you
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Why it leads
Why Deel ranks #1
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (19.8 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
306+5.763.06#1/7Loading evidence…
265+4.165.07#3/7Loading evidence…
247+5.386.09#3/7Loading evidence…
207+4.487.08#3/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin+5over Toku, #2
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 83–84 and stays #1
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Deel’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Compliant coverage where you employ 6 → 3 on its ladder · Toku passes it−382#1 → #2
Custody of payroll float 5 → 1 on its ladder · Toku passes it−481#1 → #2
Tax forms & filing coverage 7 → 3 on its ladder · Toku passes it−481#1 → #2
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Compliant coverage where you employ — 6/10, the category best
- Cost clarity per seat — 7/10, category best 8/10
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Custody of payroll float — 5/10 against a category best of 7/10
- Tax forms & filing coverage — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- The '150+ countries' headline describes fiat EOR, not stablecoin payroll — and Deel's own page elsewhere says 130+.
- Every call to action on Deel's pricing page reads 'Book a demo', and its per-seat figures are 'Starting at' floors.
Competitive position
Where Deel leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 720.0 of 20 · pool best
Published criteria#1 / 714.8 of 30 · pool best
Friction#1 / 74.7 of 10 · pool best
Trust record#1 / 74.8 of 8 · pool best
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Deel leads
- Compliant coverage where you employ#1 / 7
- Custody of payroll float#3 / 7
- Tax forms & filing coverage#3 / 7
- Cost clarity per seat#3 / 7
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Toku#2 of 7 · score 78 · 5.0 points behind
Deel leads on
- Custody of payroll float5 vs 3
- Cost clarity per seat7 vs 4
Toku leads on
- Tax forms & filing coverage8 vs 7
Largest single reason Deel is ahead: published criteria (+5.5 display points).Scenario cost: Toku has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Bitwage (a Paystand company)#3 of 7 · score 65 · 18.0 points behind
Deel leads on
- Compliant coverage where you employ6 vs 2
- Tax forms & filing coverage7 vs 3
Bitwage (a Paystand company) leads on
- Custody of payroll float6 vs 5
- Cost clarity per seat8 vs 7
Largest single reason Deel is ahead: published criteria (+10.4 display points).Scenario cost: Deel has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Papaya Global#4 of 7 · score 63 · 20.0 points behind
Deel leads on
- Compliant coverage where you employ6 vs 1
- Tax forms & filing coverage7 vs 6
- Cost clarity per seat7 vs 3
Papaya Global leads on
- Custody of payroll float7 vs 5
Largest single reason Deel is ahead: published criteria (+12.5 display points).Scenario cost: Papaya Global has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against #2
83 vs 78 · gap 5.0Why Deel ranks above Toku
DimensionThisTokuGap share
Availability · 23% weight20.020.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight14.812.7+5.5, better
Friction · 12% weight4.74.7same
Trust record · 9% weight4.84.8same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisTokuPoints
Custody of payroll float · w2653+1.66, better
Tax forms & filing coverage · w2478−0.77, worse
Cost clarity per seat · w2074+1.92, better
Net8378+5.0
Your scenario
Deel is not priced for this scenario
Payroll spread on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 22 October 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median and cheapestNot statedOnly 2 of 7 rows publish a comparable price; a median and a cheapest row need at least 3.
4 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
1 of 7 quote a zero fee that leaves costs out, so they are absent from the median and the cheapest row, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 22 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #1 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 22 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Compliant coverage where you employstrength 6 · weight 30Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Custody of payroll floatstrength 5 · weight 26Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Tax forms & filing coveragestrength 7 · weight 24Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Cost clarity per seatstrength 7 · weight 20Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Custody failure (Deel 5/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Custody of payroll float · 26%
- Regulatory failure: no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.Scored by Compliant coverage where you employ · 30% (Deel 6/10)Scored by Tax forms & filing coverage · 24% (Deel 7/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Insolvency failure, Execution failure, Exit failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Cost clarity per seat (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Deel pricing page (deel.com/pricing, read 22 October 2026): Find talent "Starting at $14 per worker per month"; contractors "Starting at $49 per contractor per month" and "Starting at $325 per contractor of record per month"; employees "Starting at $125 per US PEO employee per month" and "Starting at $599 per EOR employee per month"; every call to action reads "Book a demo", so these are floors. The "Get 3 months free of PEO" promotion is excluded: it needs a new PEO Order Form executed between 15 July 2026, and 31 December 2026, with "minimum two (2) year terms", the credit is applied "at the end of the initial Term", and it is forfeited on breach or early termination. Crypto leg (help-centre article "Funding Your Deel Account and Paying Invoices with Stablecoins", read 22 October 2026): an employer funding Deel in USDC or USDT pays "Provider fee: 1% of the deposit amount" at a "Guaranteed 1:1 conversion from stablecoin to USD", and "Deel does not apply FX markups or crypto conversion spreads"; employees receiving salary in stablecoins pay "no provider fees, transaction fees, or gas fees" (article "Getting Paid in Stablecoins").Deel official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDDeel official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain stablecoin rails
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Employers paying globally
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Stablecoin salary payouts cover EOR and Direct Employee Payroll employees with a USD, EUR or GBP contract currency in the US, the UK and 30 European countries; the DLUSD stablecoin wallet is for contractors.
- Availability note
- Deel help centre, "Stablecoin Wallet Overview" (help.letsdeel.com, read 22 October 2026): the contractor DLUSD wallet "is rolling out globally in phases. Argentina is live at launch", and it is not available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the EU countries the article lists, or "Countries on Deel's compliance-restricted list, including Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela". "Getting Paid in Stablecoins" (read 22 October 2026): employee stablecoin salary payouts are "available for EOR and Direct Employee Payroll employees with a USD, EUR, or GBP contract currency in selected countries" (the United States, the United Kingdom and 30 European countries), for "between 10% - 25% of their net salary"; after the USDT line it adds "Availability is limited in some countries; not available for employees in EU countries." Every call to action on the pricing page reads "Book a demo".
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
11 methodology entries
- 22 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 83, #1 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt crypto_payroll:deel:2026.10.18:9b43441821c5
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