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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.

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Stop renting absence.io.

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 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.

How absence.io pricing grows

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.

What Leavora deliberately doesn't do is on its 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 by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Leavora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off absence.io.

Is Leavora payroll?
No — it tracks leave entitlement, requests, approvals, and balances only. It never calculates wages, touches cards or bank rails, or initiates a payment, so it has zero payroll and zero payment surface.
How exact are the balances?
Exact by construction: leave is stored in integer centidays (a hundredth of a day), so half-days and monthly accrual are precise and a full year's accrual lands exactly on the entitlement. The shipped test suite covers accrual, carryover and both DST transitions — run it yourself with php tests/run.php.
Can I use a fiscal leave year, not the calendar year?
Yes — the leave year is configurable (calendar or a fiscal start such as April 1), and carryover is capped at that boundary.
Does it handle half-days and public holidays?
Yes — requests can be half-days, and a company holiday list plus your configured weekend are excluded from every working-day count.
Better together
Leavora is part of the Workforce Suite
5 apps for one price, $136 less than buying them separately.
$249once

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Sources

  1. 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, so 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.

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