The self-hosted TimeCamp 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 TimeCamp every month.
Stop renting TimeCamp.
Clockora6 months of TimeCamp costs what Clockora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: The entry paid tier on the annual commitment for three seats ($3.99 x 3), the same basis as the Clockify row. The month-to-month price is 38% higher and is recorded in the text rather than averaged away. The AI feature is metered separately in tokens, which the vendor estimates at about $6 per user a month — a second meter on top of the seat. Clockora is $69 once, for the whole team, with no token bill behind it.
TimeCamp meters per user per month AND meters its AI tracker separately in tokens, so the seat price is not the whole bill.
“estimated token usage is about $6 per user/month”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
TimeCamp runs the wider time business — billing rates, invoicing, project profitability and an AI tracker that suggests entries.
“starter time & billing $3.99 /mo $ 3.99 per user billed annually or $5.49 month-to-month”, their own page
Stay with TimeCamp if you want automatic tracking, billing rates and profitability reporting as a service. Clockora is the timesheet a payroll run needs — hours by project, exact totals, approvals — bought once, on your own server, and it deliberately does no invoicing.
What Clockora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting TimeCamp.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in TimeCamp'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 TimeCamp.
Does Clockora invoice or bill these hours?
Is it payroll?
How exact are the totals?
MySQL or SQLite?
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Sources
- TimeCamp: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starter time & billing $3.99 /mo $ 3.99 per user billed annually or $5.49 month-to-month ... premium profit & productivity $6.99 /mo ... ultimate analytics & collaboration $9.99 /mo ... estimated token usage is about $6 per user/month”
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.