# Employment Hero Payroll vs Gusto (slim)

> Gusto scores 63.3 (B) on agent readiness against Employment Hero Payroll's 50.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Employment Hero Payroll leads on reliability. Both do payroll run. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Gusto scores 63.3 (B) on agent readiness against Employment Hero Payroll's 50.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Employment Hero Payroll leads on reliability. Both do payroll run.

- Employment Hero Payroll: D 50.4, rank #591 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/employment-hero.min.md
- Gusto: B 63.3, rank #314 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gusto.min.md
- Employment Hero Payroll, good for An agent acting for an employer or bureau already on Employment Hero Payroll in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore or Malaysia, and white label partners who create businesses through the brand endpoints. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 58.
- Gusto, good for A software platform that wants to run US payroll for its own customers and can pass Gusto's partner reviews. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 86 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 53; Security & auth, 60 against 46; Payments & pricing, 15 against 10; Maintenance & community, 76 against 68.

| Category | Employment Hero Payroll | Gusto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Employment Hero Payroll | Gusto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Employment Hero Pty Ltd | Gusto, Inc. |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Employment Hero's General Terms. The `KeyPayV2` .NET client is MIT | Proprietary service under Gusto's API Policy and Developer Terms of Service. The API clients on GitHub are MIT, and the React SDK and the Gusto CLI are Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 6 stars | 2 stars, 25k npm/wk |