Oyster AI features, pricing and GDPR (November 2026)

Oyster is an employer-of-record and global payroll platform that lets companies hire and pay employees and contractors in more than 180 countries without opening local entities. It targets HR and people teams managing distributed international teams of any size.

Oyster is an employer-of-record and contractor-management platform run by Oyster HR, Inc., a Delaware-registered public benefit corporation with no parent company and a fully distributed team. Beyond EOR and global payroll, it covers contractor payments, benefits administration, visa sponsorship and a salary-benchmarking calculator, plus hourly People Partner HR advisory for more complex cases. There is no minimum team size, so pricing scales from a single contractor up to larger enterprise headcounts.

• Answers labor law questions by countryOyster AI is a chatbot that answers questions on employment law, notice periods, and leave or sick-pay rules for a specific country, drawing only on Oyster's reviewed country compliance guides and help center articles. HR teams get instant first-line answers instead of waiting on a case worker for routine country questions.
• Guides users through platform processesThe same chatbot explains Oyster-specific processes, such as how invoicing works or how to change an existing contract, using the platform's help center content. This reduces the number of routine how-to tickets that reach Oyster's human support and customer success teams.
• Supports employees with self-service tasksTeam members can ask the chatbot how to submit expenses, fill in a timesheet, find a pay stub, or update bank details, without opening a support ticket. Oyster states the assistant only reads its country guides and help articles and has no access to individual account or team member data.

• Pricing is fully published: EOR from $699 per employee per month, contractors from $29 per month after a 30-day free trial.
• Operates as a fully distributed public benefit corporation with a Delaware registered office, not a conventional single-city headquarters.
• Discounts for certified nonprofits, B Corps and startups, plus free or discounted hiring of refugee talent, on top of standard per-employee pricing.
• The AI chatbot is scoped to public country guides and help articles only, with no access to individual customer or employee records.

Oyster offers employer of record hiring in more than 120 countries and lists 180+ locations across all its services, contractors included. It says more than 80 percent of hires run through its own entities, but it publishes no country breakdown of entities, revenue or named reference customers that would single out a strong market, so none is listed.

Oyster stores platform data on AWS in Ireland according to its public Data Processing Addendum, although staff in other countries can access personal data on a limited basis under standard contractual clauses. Confirm exact per-country pricing, since the published $699 EOR rate is an entry price and country fees can apply. The AI chatbot only reads public country guides and help articles, with no access to employee records, so treat its labor law answers as a starting point.

• No federal employee privacy law, a state patchwork instead
• NYC requires bias audits for AI hiring tools
• Illinois bans discriminatory AI in employment decisions

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