The self-hosted Clockify alternative
Clockora: Self-hosted staff timesheet — hours by project, exact totals, approvals. No invoicing. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Clockify every month.
Stop renting Clockify.
Clockora6 months of Clockify costs what Clockora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Re-read 2026-09-07: the page renders EUROS to a European reader — same numerals, different symbol — while its OWN structured data declares "priceCurrency": "USD", so the dollars here are the vendor's denomination and the euro is our geography. Up to 5 users the free tier wins outright; from the 6th the per-seat meter starts and never stops, and a 20-person team pays back Clockora in about four weeks. Figure shown for 3 seats on Basic.
Clockify charges per seat, and every active or invited team member — owners, admins, managers, and members alike — occupies one billed seat.
“Every active or invited user listed on your Team page occupies one paid seat.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11
Clockify offers a genuinely free tier that lets a small team track unlimited time and invite a few people at no cost.
“You can track as much time as you want and invite up to 4 people for free.”, their own page
If you need built-in invoicing or billable rates, stay where you are — Clockora records hours only and handles no invoicing, billing rates, or money of any kind.
What Clockora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Clockify.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Clockify's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
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 Clockora vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off Clockify.
Does Clockora invoice or bill these hours?
Is it payroll?
How exact are the totals?
MySQL or SQLite?
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- Clockify: price checked 2026-09-03, source“US$3.99 / 5.49 / 7.99 / 11.99 / 12.99 per seat /month billed annually (or US$4.99 / 6.99 / 9.99 / 14.99 / 15.99 if billed monthly); free plan "Up to 5 users" (verified 2026-09-03)”
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.