Staffify vs Belay: which fits your business in 2026.

Who Belay is, accurately.

Belay (belaysolutions.com) is a US-based remote staffing firm founded in 2010, headquartered in Atlanta. They place virtual assistants, executive assistants, bookkeepers, social media managers, and accounting professionals, all US-based. Their stated bar is the top 3 percent of US applicants, and they typically match a client in around a week.

Belay does not publish pricing. Industry references and third party reviews put the cost range for part-time US-based VAs at roughly $1,200 to $3,000 per month, with bookkeeping and full-time arrangements running higher. They emphasize a "flat monthly fee" and offer what they call the BELAY Guarantee on placements.

If you want the cultural alignment and time zone overlap of a US-based assistant and you can absorb US labor pricing, Belay is one of the most established options on the market.

Who Staffify is, accurately.

Staffify pairs you with a full-time dedicated virtual assistant based in the Philippines or Latin America. One VA, one client, paired and trained on your tone and standard operating procedures. We focus on service businesses and back every placement with a lifetime replacement guarantee.

Roles we staff most often: Executive Admins, Video Editors, Customer Service Reps, and Sales and Outbound. Pricing typically runs $2,000 to $4,500 per month per VA depending on role and seniority, which is full-time, not part-time.

Side by side comparison.

When Staffify is the better choice.

If you want full-time leverage, not 10 or 20 hours a week, Staffify is structurally cheaper. A dedicated 40 hour per week VA at $3,000 per month works out to roughly $18 per hour fully loaded. A Belay-style part-time arrangement at 20 hours per week and $2,000 per month is closer to $25 per hour, with half the capacity.

If your business is a service company that already runs on SOPs and async work (agencies, consultancies, real estate teams, home service operators, e-commerce, coaches), an offshore full-time VA tends to outperform a domestic part-time one because the bottleneck is bandwidth, not accent.

If you want one person who learns your tone deeply, our positioning is reply-first: we reply to leads, we draft your emails, we own your inbox cadence. Read more on first employee vs VA and offshore talent fit if you are weighing the model.

When Belay is the better choice.

Belay is the right pick in a few clear situations:

• Regulated or compliance-heavy work (financial advisory, certain legal and medical contexts) where US-only talent is a procurement requirement.
• Client-facing voice work where you genuinely need a US accent (high-end concierge brands, certain luxury services).
• Part-time only need where 15 to 25 hours per week is enough and paying offshore full-time would be over capacity.

If you only need 10 to 20 hours of light admin per week, paying for a Staffify full-time seat is the wrong shape. Pay Belay (or Time etc) and keep the lights on.

Pricing reality check.

The most common mistake we see in this comparison is buyers anchoring on the hourly rate instead of the monthly outcome. A US-based assistant at $40 to $46 per hour for 20 hours per week is around $3,500 per month. A dedicated Philippines or Latin America VA for the same monthly spend is typically working 160 hours, not 80. The work that gets done is roughly 2x for the same check.

That said, offshore is not always the right answer. Time zone fit, voice work, and procurement constraints all matter. We will tell you on a discovery call if Staffify is the wrong fit, and refer you accordingly.

Frequently asked questions.