Square Payroll Pricing

Square Payroll pricing starts at $35/mo plus $6 per employee paid per month for the Full-service payroll plan; contractor-only payroll is $6 per employee paid per month. Billed monthly.

Square Payroll does not advertise a free tier on its public pricing page as of 2026-05-06. A free trial may be available on request.

Yes — Square Payroll's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.

xpay scored Square Payroll as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. Square Payroll's pricing URL resolves, but plan structure is not surfaced clearly enough for an agent to enumerate without hand-parsing. No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. All advertised paths route to a sales conversation rather than a self-serve checkout. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.

In the Payroll category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Square Payroll to compare with 3 nearest peers.