Clockora vs renting the software.
Staff clock in from their phone or a shared tablet; you approve exact hours, never a pay figure.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-26, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
6 months of TimeCamp costs what Clockora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. 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” Read 2026-09-03.
Who should stay with TimeCamp. 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.
How 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.
5 months of Hubstaff costs what Clockora costs once.
The fine print
How their 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” Read 2026-09-03.
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.
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.
3 months of Toggl Track costs what Clockora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Toggl meters per user, and the month-to-month price is higher than the annual one: Starter $12 against $9, Premium $24 against $16.
“Annual (Save 33.3%) Monthly” Read 2026-09-26.
Who should stay with Toggl Track. Stay with Toggl if you need the desktop and mobile trackers, the integrations catalog or SSO. Clockora is the timesheet itself — hours by project, exact totals and approvals — bought once for the whole team, and it deliberately does no invoicing.
How we counted. Stored at the entry PAID tier on annual billing for three seats ($9 x 3), matching the Clockify and Harvest rows on this product; month to month the same three seats are $36. Re-read 2026-09-26 at toggl.com/pricing, where /track/pricing/ now redirects: the first-year Premium offer ($14, renewing at $18) that the 2026-09-03 read quoted is gone, and Premium is $16 on annual billing or $24 monthly. Clockora is $69 once, for every member of staff, with no year two.
6 months of Clockify costs what Clockora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Clockify charges per seat, and every active or invited team member — owners, admins, managers, and members alike — occupies one billed seat.
“Every active or invited user listed on your Team page occupies one paid seat.” Read 2026-08-11.
Who should stay with Clockify. If you need built-in invoicing or billable rates, stay where you are — Clockora records hours only and handles no invoicing, billing rates, or money of any kind.
How we counted. Re-read 2026-09-07: the page renders EUROS to a European reader — same numerals, different symbol — while its OWN structured data declares "priceCurrency": "USD", so the dollars here are the vendor's denomination and the euro is our geography. Up to 5 users the free tier wins outright; from the 6th the per-seat meter starts and never stops, and a 20-person team pays back Clockora in about four weeks. Figure shown for 3 seats on Basic.
3 months of Harvest costs what Clockora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. 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.” Read 2026-08-11.
Who should stay with Harvest. 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.
How 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.
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Clockora deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
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”
- 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"…”
- Toggl Track: price checked 2026-09-26, source“Annual (Save 33.3%) Monthly Free $0 Free for a limited number of users. ... Starter $9 per user per month ... Premium Best value $16 per user per month ... [Monthly] Starter $12 per user per month ... Premium $24 per user per month ... Enterprise Contact Us”
- Clockify: price checked 2026-09-03, source“US$3.99 / 5.49 / 7.99 / 11.99 / 12.99 per seat /month billed annually (or US$4.99 / 6.99 / 9.99 / 14.99 / 15.99 if billed monthly); free plan "Up to 5 users" (verified 2026-09-03)”
- 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.