Ease vs Gusto
Gusto is excellent payroll software. Ease is excellent payroll inside a complete back office.
Best-in-class payroll.
Or payroll plus everything else.
Gusto is one of the best payroll products in the U.S. small business market. The interface is clean, the support is solid, the compliance work is reliable, and the price is fair. If you only need payroll and benefits, Gusto is a sound choice.
Payroll is one piece of running a practice. Ease handles payroll as one of ten modules, all run by an AI agent that knows your practice. If you want payroll plus everything else in one product, Ease is the better fit.
Feature Comparison
Who Should Pick What
Pick Gusto if...
You only need payroll and strong benefits.
Pick Gusto if you only need payroll, you want strong benefits administration (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), HSA), and the rest of your back office is handled elsewhere. Gusto's benefits broker work is genuinely strong and pricing for small teams is among the best in the market. If you already have a CPA, a bookkeeper, a lawyer, and a payment processor you trust, Gusto is the right tool to add.
Pick Ease if…
You want payroll as part of a complete back office.
Pick Ease if you do not want to maintain a stack of separate tools. Ease handles payroll as one of ten things the agent does for you. Pick Ease if you want clinical context in your payroll (W-2 vs 1099, reasonable salary for physician S Corps, multi-state telehealth). Pick Ease if you want to run payroll over chat. "Ease, run payroll Friday" is the experience.
Pricing Compared
What you actually pay
Gusto
$49 – $80/mo + per employee
Simple is $49/mo plus $6/employee. Plus is $80/mo plus $12/employee. Premium is custom. Contractor-only plans run $35/mo plus $6 per contractor per month.
Ease
$299/mo
Platform and agent. $99/mo for the first 3 months for the first 250 verified clinicians. Additional team members are $10/mo each for payroll plus $5/mo each for HR.
SWITCHING
Switching from Gusto in Three Simple Steps
Bring your payroll history.
Ease imports your prior year's payroll runs, employee records, and tax filings from Gusto.
Connect your bank and tax accounts.
State and federal tax registrations move over. Direct deposit flows continue without interruption.
Run payroll through the agent.
Your first payroll run on Ease takes a single message to the agent. The work happens behind the scenes.
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