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The self-hosted Hubstaff 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 Hubstaff every month.

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Stop renting Hubstaff.

Rented Hubstaff Starter $4.99, Grow $7.50, Team $10, Enterprise $25.00 — per seat, each marked "annual" in the page's own structured data, with the FAQ confirming "hubstaff's team plan, which costs $10 per seat per month". The rendered plan cards are drawn client-side and show nothing to a fetcher [1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud
Yours
Clockora
$69 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

5 months of Hubstaff costs what Clockora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The entry paid tier for three seats ($4.99 x 3), the same basis as the other rows on this product. The figures come from the vendor's OWN embedded Offer data, which its FAQ then confirms in prose for the Team plan — two places on one page agreeing, which is more than most pricing pages give a reader. Clockora is $69 once, for the whole team.

How Hubstaff pricing grows

Hubstaff meters per seat and prorates mid-period additions — its FAQ works the example itself, charging a seat added in July for July through December.

“hubstaff's team plan, which costs $10 per seat per month”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
What Hubstaff does that we don't

Hubstaff is a workforce-monitoring platform as much as a timesheet: activity levels, screenshots and GPS job sites that clock crews in and out.

“gps time trackingcreate job sites that automatically clock teams in and out.”, their own page
Who should stay with Hubstaff

Stay with Hubstaff if you want monitoring, GPS and payroll attached to the tracking. Clockora records hours by project with approvals and nothing else — no screenshots, no location, no monitoring of anybody — bought once for the whole team.

What Clockora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Hubstaff.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Hubstaff'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 Clockora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Hubstaff.

Does Clockora invoice or bill these hours?
No — and that is deliberate. It records hours worked and approves them; it applies no billing rate and produces no invoice. That is what keeps it distinct from an invoicing product and free of any payment surface. Pair it with your own billing system.
Is it payroll?
No. It computes no wages, holds no pay rates, and moves no money. The overtime feature is a flag against an hours threshold, never a pay figure.
How exact are the totals?
Exact to the minute. Time is stored as integer minutes and summed in PHP, with cross-midnight spans and DST handled — the shipped test suite proves it, and you can run it yourself with php tests/run.php.
MySQL or SQLite?
Either — SQLite for a zero-config trial, MySQL/MariaDB for production on ordinary shared hosting.
Better together
Clockora is part of the Workforce Suite
5 apps for one price, $136 less than buying them separately.
$249once

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Sources

  1. Hubstaff: price checked 2026-09-03, source“"name": "starter", "url": "https://hubstaff.com/pricing", "pricecurrency": "usd", "price": "4.99" ... "name": "grow", "url": "https://hubstaff.com/pricing", "pricecurrency": "usd", "price": "7.50" ... "name": "team", "url": "https://hubstaff.com/pricing", "pricecurrency": "usd", "price": "10"…”

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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