The self-hosted absence.io alternative
Leavora — Self-hosted staff leave & PTO — accruals, working-day requests, approvals, and live balances. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying absence.io every month.
absence.io Starter €2.99 per user/month, Pro €4.99, Complete €7.99, with a monthly/annual toggle marked "-10%". Priced per user, in euros, on every tier Leavora is $99.00 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
How absence.io pricing grows with you
absence.io meters per user per month on all three tiers, and holds single sign-on back for the middle one.
“pro €4.99 per userper month” — their own page, read 2026-09-03
What absence.io does that we don't
absence.io publishes its whole ladder openly, in prose and in the page's own structured data, which most of this category will not do.
“"name": "starter", "price": "2.99"” — their own page
Who should stay with absence.io
Stay with absence.io if you want time tracking, expenses and a digital personnel file around the leave calendar. Leavora is the leave record itself — accruals, working-day requests, approvals and live balances — bought once and kept on your own server. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting absence.io
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in absence.io's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Leavora vs absence.io comparison.
Sources
- absence.io — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “starter €2.99 per userper month ... pro €4.99 per userper month ... complete €7.99 per userper month ... "name": "starter", "price": "2.99"”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory — every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.