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.
Stop renting Hubstaff
5 months of Hubstaff equals this one-time price.
Assumption: 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 with you
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. Full honest limitations are on the 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 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 Clockora vs Hubstaff comparison.
Sources
- Hubstaff — price checked 2026-09-03 —
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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.