Beepo vs Cloudstaff: Only One Of Them Will Tell You What It Costs

Cloudstaff publishes a price. Beepo does not. Run Beepo vs Cloudstaff as a buyer and that is the only difference you can put in a spreadsheet today. Cloudstaff's pricing page puts full-time office-based staff "between $1,200 - $1,800 USD (all inclusive) per month". Beepo's site returns a 404 on its pricing URL, and its sitemap, fetched this afternoon, holds no pricing page.

Both make the same savings claim. Cloudstaff says its model "can save you up to 70% of the cost of hiring domestically". Beepo's navigation says "Save up to 70% on employment costs". We publish a monthly per-employee figure on our own pricing page, so read this as disclosure, not neutrality.

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A softer failure rate does not make a monthly commitment smaller. It makes you less careful about measuring one before you sign it.

What the Beepo vs Cloudstaff gap does to a twelve-month forecast

How wide is a published range once it is converted?

At the Reserve Bank's 7 October rate of 0.6970 US cents to the Australian dollar, Cloudstaff's floor of USD $1,200 is about A$1,722 a month and its ceiling of USD $1,800 is about A$2,582. One seat therefore sits somewhere between A$20,660 and A$30,990 a year. The spread on a single head is A$10,330.

Three people widens that to A$61,980 against A$92,970. The gap is A$30,990, a whole additional seat you may or may not be buying, decided by a quote nobody has given you yet.

What happens when a provider publishes nothing at all?

The range is not wide. It does not exist. A percentage cannot go in a payroll line and it cannot be stress tested either. The question worth answering before signing is what this costs in a quarter where revenue falls 20 per cent, and "up to 70%" does not answer it. Beepo publishes an article asking what the hidden costs of the model are, which is a fair question from a company publishing no cost of its own, and the same gap shows up in what actually sits underneath an offshore staffing invoice.

The honest case for publishing nothing

It is stronger than it looks. Salaries in Manila move by role, by seniority and by month, and a public rate card invites a buyer to line up two numbers measuring different scopes. Cloudstaff's own range is 50 per cent wide from floor to ceiling for that exact reason. A provider quoting after a scoping call will often land a client on a better structure than a self-serve number would.

That holds right up until a buyer has to choose between two providers. Then it stops being prudence and becomes an information advantage held by the seller.

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What to ask instead of comparing two websites

Ask for the split. Not the all-in figure, the split: what reaches the person, what the provider keeps, and which of the two moves when the salary moves. Cloudstaff describes employee direct costs as billed "at cost with no markup" alongside a fixed fee, which is the right shape even with the numbers missing. Then ask what it costs to stop, because that is the figure deciding whether a bad quarter is survivable. The ten vetting criteria most buyers run ask neither question.

Comparing Beepo and Cloudstaff on their websites is comparing one number against none, and that is a verdict on the websites rather than on the companies. If you are carrying somewhere between A$20,660 and A$30,990 a year per seat and cannot say which end you sit at, sign up and price one role properly. Which number would you rather argue about: the monthly rate, or what it costs to walk away from it?