Payroll · pricing
Openwage pricing
Openwage publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the payroll tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Openwage pricing is on request. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Per-transfer fee, paid by the employee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Openwage plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openwage | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Openwage feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- On-demand pay
- Transparent per-transfer fee
- Payroll and T&A integration
- No credit impact
- Automatic payday reconciliation
- Employer-free deployment
People bring Openwage in for a uk employer with shift or hourly staff wanting an on-demand pay benefit at no cost to the business, an employee wanting to know the exact cost of an advance before requesting one, rather than an opaque fee, a company already running standard uk payroll and time and attendance systems wanting straightforward integration, an hr team comparing earned wage access providers on published unit economics rather than sales quotes. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Openwage are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Payroll
Too few payroll tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openwage (this page) | On request | Per-transfer fee, paid by the employee | - | |
| Rain Instant Pay | On request | quote | - | vs Openwage |
| Clair | On request | quote | - | vs Openwage |
| Refyne | On request | quote | - | vs Openwage |
| Hastee | On request | quote | - | vs Openwage |
| Wagestream | On request | quote | - | vs Openwage |
| Payactiv | Free | Free for employers, fees apply only to expedited transfers | - | vs Openwage |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Openwage badges page.
Before you pay for Openwage
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Openwage against the tools that do have one before committing.
Openwage runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Openwage of United Kingdom. The full record is on the Openwage review, and the rest of the category is under best payroll tools.
Openwage pricing questions
- How much does Openwage cost?
- Openwage publishes a single tier, Openwage, at On request.
- Does Openwage have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Openwage is listed as Per-transfer fee, paid by the employee. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which payroll tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 payroll tools listed alongside Openwage have a free tier: Payactiv.
- What am I actually paying for with Openwage?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a uk employer with shift or hourly staff wanting an on-demand pay benefit at no cost to the business, an employee wanting to know the exact cost of an advance before requesting one, rather than an opaque fee, a company already running standard uk payroll and time and attendance systems wanting straightforward integration.
- Does Openwage charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Openwage prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Openwage against before paying?
- The closest payroll tools in this directory are Rain Instant Pay, Clair, Refyne, Hastee. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Openwage covering price, platforms and features.