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Oyster pricing
Oyster publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Oyster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor | $29/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| Employee | $599/month | 5 | +$570/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Contractor
$29/monthThe entry tier. It covers contractor payments, compliant contracts, invoicing, multi-currency.
Employee
$599/monthOver Contractor, this tier adds:
- Global Employment
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Compliance
- Time Off
What the product covers
The full Oyster 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.
Core
- Global Employment
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Compliance
- Contractor Management
- Time Off
- Expenses
Integrations
- BambooHR
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- QuickBooks
- NetSuite
- Slack
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring Oyster in for hiring employees abroad without setting up a local legal entity, onboarding and paying international contractors, getting country specific employment compliance advice for distributed teams. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Oyster are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Oyster
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: 2 tiers between $29/month and $599/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Oyster runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Oyster HR Inc of Charlotte, North Carolina. The full record is on the Oyster review.
Oyster pricing questions
- How much does Oyster cost?
- Oyster publishes 2 tiers, from $29/month for Contractor up to $599/month for Employee. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Oyster have a free plan?
- Yes, Oyster is recorded as subscription, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Contractor and Employee on Oyster?
- Employee costs $599/month against $29/month, and adds global employment, payroll, benefits, compliance.
- Is the Employee plan on Oyster worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is global employment, payroll, benefits, compliance. It costs $599/month against $29/month for Contractor. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Oyster?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for hiring employees abroad without setting up a local legal entity, onboarding and paying international contractors, getting country specific employment compliance advice for distributed teams.
- Does Oyster charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Oyster 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 Oyster against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Oyster to make a useful price comparison.