Plane Startup Deals & Discounts

Plane runs an application-based program that gives qualifying startups a year of reduced pricing on its Employer of Record and contractor services. The headline is a 10% discount applied across both EOR employment and contractor payments for the first 12 months, an offer worth roughly $646 to a typical early-stage team depending on headcount and worker mix.

It is aimed at companies that are still building out their global hiring motion and want to keep per-head costs predictable while they grow. Because Plane already prices on an active-only, no-minimum, no-lock-in basis, layering a startup discount on top makes it one of the cheaper ways to put a first international employee or a handful of overseas contractors on compliant payroll.

Who tends to qualify: newer, venture- or bootstrap-stage companies that are not yet existing Plane customers and are ready to onboard real workers rather than just trial the product. Approval is reviewed rather than automatic, so the value lands for teams that genuinely plan to run global payroll, not for one-off sign-ups looking only for a price break.

Plane fits teams whose hiring outgrows a single country:

• First international hire - employ someone abroad through EOR without opening a local entity or learning each country's labor rules.
• Mixed US and global teams - pay W-2 employees, overseas full-timers, and contractors in one run instead of stitching payroll tools together.
• Contractor-heavy startups - onboard and pay freelancers in 240+ countries, with billing only for active months.
• Engineering-led ops - automate onboarding, payroll, and reporting through the API or CLI, or let AI agents run tasks via native MCP support.
• Scaling distributed companies - keep PTO, documents, and compliance for every worker type in one HRIS as the team grows.

Plane prices per worker type with no setup fees, no minimums, and no annual contract:

• HRIS - free; onboard the team, store documents, and track PTO at no cost.
• Contractors - around $39 per active contractor per month, with no charge for inactive months.
• US employees - roughly $19 per US employee per month for W-2 payroll.
• EOR hires - a flat fee in the range of $499 per international employee per month, the same regardless of country.

Plane charges no FX markup and pays contractors directly to their bank accounts without withdrawal fees. Published figures can change, so confirm current rates with Plane before budgeting.