From €10.5 per month🇩🇪
German cooperative software for tax advisors, accounting and payroll with AI salary benchmarking and the DATEV Copilot assistant.
Payroll in Germany
3 tools for payroll are among the strongest in Germany: home market, a large share of customers or revenue, local data centers or many named customers. 7 more are available there.
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Strong in Germany (3)
Strong means the markets where a tool is strongest: home market, customer or revenue share, market leadership, local data centers or many local customers. It is not a statement about data protection. How we review
Contact for pricing · Free trial🇺🇸🇩🇪🇯🇵and 1 more country
SAP's HCM suite with the Joule AI assistant for recruiting, payroll, workforce planning and HR service.
Per employee🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦and 3 more countries
Global EOR and payroll platform with AI Workforce agents for hiring, onboarding, payroll checks and visa assessment.
Available internationally (7)
Contact for pricing · Free trial🇨ðŸ‡
Swiss ERP and HR software with the DeepAnalyze and Abacus Intelligence AI modules, processed on Abacus's own servers in Ticino.
Contact for pricing🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷
Major global payroll and HCM provider with the ADP Assist AI copilot for payroll anomalies, compliance and analytics.
Contact for pricing🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺
HCM suite (formerly Ceridian) with AI agents for pay clarity, people analytics, scheduling and compliance content.
From $29 per employee/month · Free trialAvailable internationally
Global EOR platform with employer of record hiring in more than 120 countries and the Oyster AI chatbot answering questions on local employment law.
Per employee🇺🇸
Global payroll and EOR platform with AI-powered variance detection and real-time cost dashboards for more than 180 countries.
Per employee🇺🇸
Global EOR and payroll platform with AI support for HR automations, approvals and misclassification risk.
Contact for pricing🇮🇹
Italian HR and payroll suite with an in-house AI team (AI Factory) for CV screening, staffing forecasts and HR chatbots.
What HR teams in Germany should know
- Employee data: the GDPR applies directly, Section 26 BDSG only in part. Since the CJEU ruling C-34/21 of March 30, 2023, and a Federal Labor Court ruling of May 8, 2025 (8 AZR 209/21), Section 26(1) sentence 1 BDSG no longer counts as a separate legal basis. Employers process employee data directly under Article 6 GDPR, for example to perform the employment contract, or under a works agreement based on Article 88 GDPR. Employee consent works only in narrow cases, and Germany has not passed a dedicated employee data law yet. LfDI Baden-Württemberg, FAQ zum EuGH-Urteil C-34/21 · as of September 2026
- Works council consent for AI monitoring tools. Section 87(1) No. 6 of the Works Constitution Act (BetrVG) gives the works council a binding right of co-determination before any technical system able to monitor employee behavior or performance goes live. Courts apply this to most AI-based HR tools, so employers typically need a works agreement before rollout. § 87 BetrVG, Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de) · as of September 2026
- EU AI Act high-risk employment duties postponed to December 2027. The EU AI Act lists AI for recruitment, promotion, termination, task allocation and performance monitoring as high risk (Annex III No. 4). The Digital Omnibus Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since July 27, 2026, moved the compliance deadline for these duties from August 2, 2026, to December 2, 2027. Verordnung (EU) 2026/1744, EUR-Lex · as of September 2026
General information with sources, not legal advice.