Lano

What Lano actually is

Lano is a Berlin-based global employment platform, founded in 2018, that covers four jobs most companies otherwise buy separately: consolidating payroll you already run across multiple providers, running managed payroll in new countries, hiring employees abroad via Employer of Record, and managing and paying international contractors. Integrated payments sit underneath all of it, covering 28 currencies.

The distinctive piece is payroll consolidation. Rather than replacing your existing local payroll providers, Lano standardises their data into one dataset with multi-entity reporting, AI-assisted audits, PTO tracking and expense management — at €3/employee/month, which is a very different proposition (and price point) from ripping out incumbent providers. Coverage runs to 170+ countries for both EOR and contractors, with the usual sanctions exclusions (Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria and others).

The four products and what they cost

Verified from Lano's pricing page. All prices are in euros and all are "from" floors:

• Payroll Consolidation — from €3/employee/month. Standardises data across your existing providers, HRIS integrations, multi-entity reporting, AI-assisted audits, PTO and expenses.
• Multi-Country Payroll — from €19/employee/month. Adds managed payroll run through local partners in 170+ countries, plus entity incorporation and legal/accounting services.
• Contractor Management — from €19/contractor/month. Compliant contracts for 170+ countries, onboarding, invoicing, local-currency payments and approval workflows. Contractors get free invoicing and timesheet tools.
• Employer of Record — from €499/employee/month. Hire with no local entity: compliant local contracts, tax and HR expertise, visa support, PTO and expenses.
• Integrated Payments — included in every plan. Local payment rails are free where available; SWIFT transfers cost €25 per transaction.

Neither monthly-versus-annual terms nor an annual prepay discount are published. Volume discounts exist but are negotiated case by case.

Where it shines

The consolidation product is genuinely differentiated — most competitors want to replace your payroll stack, whereas Lano will unify what you already have for €3 a head, which is a far easier internal sell. Integrated payments across 28 currencies with free local rails (only SWIFT costs €25) is clean, and bundling entity incorporation, legal and accounting services, visa support and IT hardware provisioning means Lano can handle the awkward parts of international expansion that pure-software platforms push back to you. HRIS integrations cover HiBob, Workday, Personio, SAP, Zoho People, Lucca and Sage, with a public API for the rest. Lano cites 1,500+ businesses served and a 4.7 G2 rating.

Where it falls short

Four honest caveats. Every price is a floor — €3, €19 and €499 are starting points, and Lano funnels you to a demo and a "tailored proposal" for the real number, so you can't compare against Rise or the bigger EOR platforms without a sales conversation. There's no free trial, no free tier and no self-serve signup: you need an MSA and a sales process before you can onboard even one contractor, unlike contractor-first rivals that take a card and go. EOR is delivered through in-country partner networks rather than owned entities in most markets, which adds a layer between you and the legal employer and can slow edge-case resolution. And the integration list is short and HRIS-weighted — no named accounting connectors like QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite, so finance teams will lean on the API or CSV.

Who should buy

Lano fits European-headquartered companies and scale-ups with people in several countries — especially anyone whose real pain is fragmented existing payroll rather than hiring somewhere new, because the €3 consolidation product solves that cheaply and nothing else prices it that way. Book the demo with your country list and headcount ready, since every quote is bespoke. If you want to hire one contractor today on a credit card with published pricing, a self-serve platform will be faster and more transparent.