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Rent or own · 4 rivals, each price dated

Leavora vs renting the software.

Exact leave balances, holiday-aware working days, and rules for who can be off before anyone books.

Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-10-11, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.

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The subscription math.

Yours Leavora $99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server Buy once
Rented Factorial One figure renders to a plain fetch: "Factorial starts at $8 per month, per user". No plan ladder, allowance or billing term is published to a fetcher, so none is recorded here [1]

13 months of Factorial costs what Leavora costs once.

What Factorial does that we don't. Factorial is a whole HR platform — leave, time, documents, onboarding and payroll in one hosted account.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. Factorial meters per user per month and publishes only where that meter STARTS — the rest of the ladder is not rendered.

“factorial starts at $8 per month, per user” Read 2026-09-03.

Who should stay with Factorial. Stay with Factorial if you want HR records, onboarding and payroll together. Leavora answers one question completely — who is off, what they have accrued, and what the balance is today — on your own server, bought once.

How we counted. The vendor's own starting price, per user per month, and deliberately nothing more: the plan cards render nothing to a fetch, so no tier, allowance or annual discount is claimed. Read it as a floor rather than a price. Leavora is $99 once, for any number of staff, with no per-head meter above it.

Rented Vacation Tracker Core, 1 to 25 users: $550/yr billed yearly ($45.83/month), or $2/user/month billed monthly with a $50 minimum (EUR 50/month minimum to European visitors). Complete $3.67/user/month yearly ($1100 minimum), $4 monthly ($100 minimum). Same numerals in euros or dollars, chosen by location [2]

3 months of Vacation Tracker costs what Leavora costs once (it bills in EUR, so this is approximate).

What Vacation Tracker does that we don't. Vacation Tracker runs leave requests inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, where the team already works.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. 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.” Read 2026-09-26.

Who should stay with Vacation Tracker. Leavora has employee self-service too: invite someone from their record and they see their own balances and history and request leave, and an administrator decides. Stay with Vacation Tracker if you want requests made from inside Slack or Microsoft Teams — Leavora works in the browser and its installable app.

How we counted. Stored at the lowest published price: Core billed yearly, $550 a year for 1 to 25 users ($45.83 a month; month to month it is $50, as 1 to 25 users bill as 25). Re-read 2026-10-11 in the page's own pricing script (first Core annual bucket { maxUsers: 25, basePrice: 550 }), where the symbol 'is resolved at runtime (geo detection)' over one set of numbers. The '$1 per user, $25 minimum' read on 2026-09-05 is now only HTML placeholder text.

Rented Timetastic Business $1.50/user/month, Pro $2.50/user/month, Rota and Time Clock $5.50/user/month; 30-day trial, no free tier [3]

22 months of Timetastic costs what Leavora costs once.

What Timetastic does that we don't. Timetastic sells a dearer Rota and Time Clock tier that turns phone clock-ins into payroll-ready timesheets.
The fine print

How their pricing grows. Timetastic bills per user per month on every plan, so the cost rises as headcount grows.

“$1.50 per user per month” Read 2026-08-11.

Who should stay with Timetastic. If you need payroll-ready timesheets and wage calculations bundled with leave tracking, stay with Timetastic — Leavora tracks leave only and never calculates or pays wages.

How we counted. Per-seat monthly and the cheapest anchor on the market. Figure shown for 3 staff - break-even shortens with team size (10 staff: about 4 months). Leavora is one payment for unlimited staff. Re-read 2026-09-07, unchanged: three plans, one rate each, no annual toggle and no free tier - 'Three super simple price plans, each with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.'

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.

Also in this category.

absence.io [4] Starter €2.99 per user/month, Pro €4.99, Complete €7.99, with a monthly/annual toggle marked "-10%". Priced per user, in euros, on every tier Priced in euros, so no cents are stored and no dollar saving is computed — the Pleo, Soldo, Vizito and Trail rule. The shape is the comparison: absence.io meters per user on every tier, so a growing team pays more for the same leave calendar, while Leavora is $99 once for unlimited staff.
How their pricing grows. absence.io meters per user per month on all three tiers, and holds single sign-on back for the middle one.
“pro €4.99 per userper month”
What absence.io does that we don't. absence.io publishes its whole ladder openly, in prose and in the page's own structured data, which most of this category will not do.
Stay with absence.io if you want time tracking, expenses and a digital personnel file around the leave calendar. Leavora is the leave record itself — accruals, working-day requests, approvals and live balances — bought once and kept on your own server.

Why owning beats renting here.

One payment

No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.

Your data

Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.

No plan ceilings

Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

If the vendor stops

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 Leavora deliberately doesn't do.

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Sources

  1. Factorial: price checked 2026-09-03, source“factorial starts at $8 per month, per user”
  2. Vacation Tracker: price checked 2026-10-11, source“[rendered, European address] Core €2 per user / month €50 minimum Billed monthly ... Complete Popular €4 per user / month €100 minimum Billed monthly ... [Yearly] Core €1.83 per user / month €550 minimum Billed yearly ... €3.67 per user / month €1100 minimum Billed yearly ... [served HTML] Core $ 2…”
  3. Timetastic: price checked 2026-09-03, source“$1.50 per user per month (Business); Pro $2.50 and Rota and Time Clock $5.50 per user per month”
  4. absence.io: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starter €2.99 per userper month ... pro €4.99 per userper month ... complete €7.99 per userper month ... "name": "starter", "price": "2.99"”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.

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