The self-hosted Vacation Tracker alternative
Leavora — Self-hosted staff leave & PTO — accruals, working-day requests, approvals, and live balances. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Vacation Tracker every month.
Stop renting Vacation Tracker
2 months of Vacation Tracker equals this one-time price (competitor bills in EUR — approximate).
Assumption: Re-read 2026-09-05 and the $25-vs-$50 question is SETTLED: both are real, in different toggle states. Monthly billing shows '$50 minimum' with $2/user; YEARLY shows '$25 minimum' with $1/user. Earlier reads that disagreed were reading different states, not misreading one. Crossover is 25 people either way. Page served USD on 09-05 where it served EUR on 09-03. The badge reads 'Save ~ 10% yearly' while both rate and floor halve.
How Vacation Tracker pricing grows with you
Vacation Tracker charges per user, with annual-plan rates set by which team-size tier the buyer's headcount falls into.
“Annual plans are priced in user tiers, so your rate is based on the range your team falls into rather than your exact headcount.” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Vacation Tracker does that we don't
Vacation Tracker gives each employee their own self-service login to view balances and submit leave requests without going through an admin.
“Employees manage their time off independently by accessing quotas, submitting requests, and viewing upcoming leaves and holidays.” — their own page
Who should stay with Vacation Tracker
If you need employees to log in themselves and submit their own leave requests, stay where you are — Leavora does not do that (it is admin-managed, with no separate per-employee self-service login in this version). Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Vacation Tracker
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Vacation Tracker'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 Leavora vs Vacation Tracker comparison.
Sources
- Vacation Tracker — price checked 2026-09-05 —
source “EUR 2 / month - EUR 50 minimum - Billed monthly ... EUR 4 / month - EUR 100 minimum (page shows EUR to EU visitors)”
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.