The self-hosted Harvest 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 Harvest every month.
Stop renting Harvest.
Clockora3 months of Harvest costs what Clockora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Per-seat; figure for 3 seats on the base paid tier, on ANNUAL billing, which is the state the page opens in. Both states were walked on 2026-09-07: annual $9/$14, monthly $11/$17.50 — so the discount is real, and the earlier note ($108/12 = $9, "the same rate") had compared the annual price with itself. The switch says 20%: exact on Enterprise ($17.50 x 0.8 = $14), 18.2% on Teams. Clockora buys once for any headcount.
Harvest bills per seat on its Teams and Enterprise plans, and the bill grows further as the account's invoices, projects, clients, and tasks increase.
“As your team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use, so you're never overpaying.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11
Harvest ships with accounting and payment integrations into Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Deel.
“Integrate with Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Deel, and others”, their own page
If you need built-in invoicing and payment integrations, 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 Harvest.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Harvest'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 Harvest.
Does Clockora invoice or bill these hours?
Is it payroll?
How exact are the totals?
MySQL or SQLite?
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Sources
- Harvest: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starting from $9 seat/month - $108 per seat, billed annually ... starting from $14seat/month - $168 per seat, billed annually”
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.