File No. 133
ADP pricing, checked October 2026
ADP sells payroll and HR services. Its small business product, RUN Powered by ADP, comes in four packages, and the packages page publishes no price for any of them: each card ends in a Get pricing link.
The short answer. ADP pricing is not published. The small business payroll packages page names four RUN Powered by ADP packages (Essential, Enhanced, Complete and HR Pro) with no figure on any of them, and each card carries a Get pricing link to a quote. No free plan is listed. Read off adp.com on 11 Oct 2026.
What each plan costs
| Plan | Price | Billed | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Payroll | not published | quote only | Vendor page | |
| Described on the page as for small businesses that need payroll, taxes and help with compliance. No figure is shown; the card ends in a Get pricing link. | ||||
| Enhanced Payroll | not published | quote only | Vendor page | |
| Marked Most Popular. Described on the page as basic payroll plus ZipRecruiter, State Unemployment Insurance and a garnishment payment service. No figure is shown. | ||||
| Complete Payroll & HR Plus | not published | quote only | Vendor page | |
| Described on the page as everything in the Enhanced package, plus basic HR support. No figure is shown. | ||||
| HR Pro Payroll & HR | not published | quote only | Vendor page | |
| Described on the page as everything in the Complete package, plus enhanced HR support and perks for the owner and employees. No figure is shown. | ||||
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What the free tier actually allows
- No free plan is listed on the page.
- No free trial is mentioned on the page. It offers a self-guided interactive demo.
- A banner on the page offers 3 months free for new small business payroll sign-ups, ending 10/22, subject to terms and conditions that were not read for this file. That is a promotion on a paid service, not a free plan.
What the pricing page does not say
- The cost cannot be worked out in advance: none of the four packages carries a figure, so the only route to a number is a Get pricing link or the sales phone line.
- The page title calls itself a payroll price and plan comparison, and the page text still contains no dollar amount for any package, fee or add on.
- Retirement plans and Workers' Compensation are marked on the page as add ons. No price is given for either.
- Independent contractor payments are presented in a separate box with its own Get Pricing button, apart from the four packages.
- The page covers RUN Powered by ADP, the product for businesses with 1 to 49 employees. The employee count prompt on the page also offers a 50+ Employees option, which leads to other products that this file does not cover.
- The 3 months free banner carries an asterisk and an end date of 10/22. The value of the offer cannot be worked out without the price it applies to.
Why there is no ADP pricing on the page
The ADP small business payroll packages page is titled as a price and plan comparison, but it compares packages, not prices. It shows four package cards under the heading RUN Powered by ADP payroll packages comparison, and each card ends in a Get pricing link. The captured page text contains no dollar amount for any package, fee or add on.
What is published
The four packages, in the order shown, with the page's own descriptions:
- Essential Payroll: for small businesses that need payroll, taxes and help with compliance.
- Enhanced Payroll: basic payroll plus ZipRecruiter, State Unemployment Insurance and a garnishment payment service. Marked Most Popular.
- Complete Payroll & HR Plus: everything in Enhanced, plus basic HR support.
- HR Pro Payroll & HR: everything in Complete, plus enhanced HR support and perks for the owner and employees.
The page also lists key features: payroll check delivery to the business, payroll tax calculation and filing, a general ledger interface that exports journal entries to accounting software, and employee handbook support. Retirement plans and Workers' Compensation are marked as add ons. Payments to 1099 independent contractors sit in a separate box with its own Get Pricing button.
What a team pays
It cannot be worked out from ADP's page. A worked cost for a team of 1, 5 or 20 needs a base fee or a per-employee rate, and the page publishes neither. No estimate is given here, because any figure would have to come from somewhere other than ADP.
What the page does show is one price driver. Before the packages can be read, it asks how many employees the company has, with three options: 1-5, 6-49 and 50+. Headcount is therefore the first thing a quote depends on, followed by the package and any add ons.
Billing details
No billing terms are stated on the page: no contract length, no payroll frequency charge, no setup fee and no cancellation terms. A banner offers 3 months free for new small business payroll sign-ups, ending 10/22, with terms and conditions that were not read for this file.
Other payroll tools are filed in the payroll drawer. Two of them are also sold by quote: see Paychex's price file and Rippling's price file. Gusto's price file records a published base fee and per-person rate.
If this one does not fit
- Gusto From $49/mo + $6/person/mo
- Payroll software for small businesses that publishes a base fee and a per-person rate, as recorded in its Tooldossier file.
- QuickBooks Payroll From $50/mo + $7/employee/mo
- Payroll software that publishes a base fee and a per-employee rate, as recorded in its Tooldossier file.
- Paychex Quote only
- Payroll and HR services for small businesses in the same drawer, also sold by quote, as recorded in its Tooldossier file.
- Rippling Quote only
- Payroll and HR software in the same drawer that is also sold by quote, as recorded in its Tooldossier file.
Questions
- Is ADP free?
- No free plan is listed. The ADP small business payroll packages page, read on 11 Oct 2026, names four paid packages with no published price and mentions no ADP free plan. A banner offers 3 months free for new sign-ups, ending 10/22, under terms that were not read.
- What does ADP cost?
- The ADP cost is not published. The small business payroll packages page shows no dollar figure for any package. A price comes only from a Get pricing link or the sales phone line shown on the page.
- What are the ADP plans?
- The page lists four ADP plans for small business payroll under the RUN Powered by ADP name: Essential Payroll, Enhanced Payroll, Complete Payroll & HR Plus and HR Pro Payroll & HR. Each has a one-line description and no price.
- What is the ADP price per user?
- Not published. The page gives no per-employee or per-user rate, no base fee and no setup fee, so no per-head figure can be read off ADP's own page as of 11 Oct 2026.
- How is an ADP quote requested?
- Through the Get pricing link on any of the four package cards, the Get Pricing link in the page header, or the Talk to Sales phone line. The page first asks how many employees the company has: 1-5, 6-49 or 50+.
- Does ADP charge setup fees?
- Not stated. The packages page shows no dollar amount for any package, fee or add-on, so any setup cost comes only with a quote.
- Is ADP billed monthly or annually?
- The page does not say. No price or billing period is published for any RUN package.
What this check confirmed
Read off the small business payroll packages page on adp.com (the source link on this file) on 11 Oct 2026 from a US connection. No prices are published; every package card carries a Get pricing link, and the page header offers Get a quote with a phone number, a Get Pricing link and a Talk to Sales line. The page opens with a prompt asking how many employees the company has; the 1-5 Employees option was selected to clear it for the screenshot, and the package cards read the same before and after. Confirmed: the four package names Essential Payroll, Enhanced Payroll, Complete Payroll & HR Plus and HR Pro Payroll & HR, each with a one-line description and no figure; the Most Popular label on Enhanced; the absence of any dollar amount in the page text; Retirement and Workers' Compensation marked as add ons; a banner offering 3 months free for new small business payroll sign-ups, ending 10/22. Not confirmed: any price, base fee, per-employee rate, setup fee or contract term; what the quote form asks for, since it was not opened or filled in; the terms and conditions of the 3 months free offer, which were not read; the full feature list behind See All Features; whether a free trial exists; prices for other ADP products such as those for businesses with 50 or more employees, which this page does not cover.
Figures on this file were read off the vendor's own pricing page on the dates shown. Prices change without notice; check before buying.
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