As of 13 August 2026, AI can compare prices for UK payroll software.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Write down your employee count, pay frequency, payroll features, pension requirements and whether you need the software to handle HMRC submissions.
   2. Open the official pricing pages for each UK payroll product you are considering and copy the relevant pricing and feature text, including any footnotes and links.
   3. Paste the business requirements and copied source material into a chatbot with the prompt above, keeping each vendor's text clearly labelled.
   4. Ask the chatbot to recalculate only comparisons supported by the supplied pricing terms and to mark missing, promotional, quote-only or VAT-exclusive prices instead of filling gaps.
   5. Open each cited vendor page again and compare the drafted price, allowance, add-on, VAT and contract entries against the current wording before using the table to request quotes or choose a product.

   Prompt

   Compare the UK payroll software options in the sources below for a business with [number of employees], paying [weekly/monthly/other], and needing [required features such as PAYE, pension support, holiday pay, payroll bureau access or HMRC submissions].
   
   Use only the supplied sources and do not invent prices, features, employee limits, discounts, VAT treatment or contract terms. For each option, extract the price, billing period, employee or payroll-run limits, setup fees, add-on charges, VAT wording, contract commitment, included features and the date or wording that shows the price is current. Preserve currencies and units exactly as shown.
   
   Create a table with one row per option and columns for the source link, stated price, billing basis, included allowance, extra charges, VAT treatment, contract terms, relevant features, missing information and confidence. Do not calculate a total unless the source gives enough information; if a calculation is possible, show the assumptions and formula. Flag prices that require a quote, appear promotional, exclude VAT or cannot be compared directly.
   
   Then provide:
   1. A like-for-like comparison for this business based only on the supplied information.
   2. The cheapest option only where the comparison is genuinely like for like.
   3. The questions I should send to each vendor before buying.
   4. A short list of every claim I must check on the live vendor page before publishing or deciding.
   
   Sources:
   [Paste current official pricing-page links or the relevant page text here]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.