Choose Paychex Flex if
You are a US employer who wants payroll and HR in one package from a large provider, and you are happy to request a quote. It ships today.
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Paychex payroll software, and where Pay differs.
Paychex Flex is payroll and HR for US employers, sold in quoted packages, and it ships today. Pay is designed for businesses paying people in India, run by you with every change explained before you approve, and priced on the page. Here is where each fits.
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Product design preview · Pay has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Pay has not shipped yet.
Everything on these pages — the screens, the features, the prices — is Centilio Pay as designed. Pay has not shipped: it sits in the third wave of Centilio tools, after Team and Ledger, and there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet. At launch it is designed to run payroll in India only. We would rather set out the whole design and say so plainly than publish a thin page; join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Side by side
Centilio Pay and Paychex Flex, side by side.
Checked against the vendors’ public pages and published guides during research in 2026. We compare how each tool charges and where it pays people, not what it charges; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
| Centilio Pay | Paychex Flex | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Payroll inside a business suite, prepared from Team and posted to Ledger | Paychex Flex, payroll and HR from Paychex |
| Where it pays people | India at launch (designed); other countries by demand | United States |
| Taxes it handles | PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax, filings prepared (designed) | US payroll taxes |
| How it is sold | Four plans, published (proposed) | Select, Pro and Enterprise, with HR and PEO options |
| Pricing model | Per business, proposed: Free up to five people, then ₹799 a month | Quote-based packages; standard prices not published |
| Availability | Not shipped — wave 3, in design | Shipped and mature |
Choose
Which one to choose.
Choose Pay if
You pay people in India, you want to run payroll yourself with every change explained before you approve, and you want one published price for the business, your CA included. You can wait for wave 3.
The approach
Payroll you run, with the reasons written down.
Some businesses want a provider to look after payroll for them; others want a tool they run themselves, with nothing hidden. Pay is the second kind.
Pay is designed so the person who approves a run can see, in one screen, why every net pay moved since last month, and so nothing is paid or filed until that person agrees. The explanation is part of the run, not a call to a support line.
Paychex sells Flex in packages that add HR and other services as they go up; its own pages describe what each includes. If that is what you need and your people are in the United States, it is the better fit today.
If you switch, later
What moving from Paychex Flex will take.
- Switch at a clean point — the start of a month, ideally the start of a quarter — so filings do not straddle two tools.
- Bring people, salary structures and year-to-date figures, so TDS for the rest of the year stays right.
- Run one month in both and compare every net pay before you stop the old one.
- Ask your CA to check the first filings from the new tool before the due date.
Questions
About switching.
Is Pay a Paychex alternative?
For a business paying people in India, that is the design. Paychex Flex serves US employers, so if your people are in the United States, Pay will not run their payroll at launch.
How does Paychex price Flex?
As of research in 2026, Paychex sells Flex in packages — Select, Pro and Enterprise, with HR and PEO options — and does not publish standard prices. Ask Paychex for a quote for your headcount.
Does Pay include HR?
HR records live in Team, a separate Centilio tool in the same wave, and hiring in Hire, which runs today. Pay reads from Team rather than duplicating it.
Will someone run payroll for me?
Pay is designed as a tool you run, with Celia preparing and explaining each run and a person approving it. If you want a provider to run payroll on your behalf, a service is the better fit.
Is Pay available now?
No. Pay is in the third wave of Centilio tools and has no launch date yet. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Can I move from Paychex to Pay later?
If your people are in India, that is the plan: switch at the start of a month or quarter with year-to-date figures, and run one month in both. Tell us what you use today and it will shape the import.
Hear first when Pay opens.
Pay is in the third wave, after Team and Ledger, and it starts with India. Join the waitlist and you will hear before the announcement. Tell us how many people you pay, in which states, and what goes wrong in your month today; that shapes the design more than anything else.