Clockify Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons and Alternatives

Clockify built its name on a free plan with no user limit, and a lot of small teams adopted it for exactly that reason. That plan has changed, so the real question in 2026 is not whether Clockify is free, but which paid seat your team needs and whether it still undercuts the rivals.

Techpresso data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracks 115 time tracking tools as of November 2026, and half of them are free, freemium or open source. The median cheapest paid plan is $8 a month across the 55 that publish a price (Toolradar time tracking category). Clockify's Basic seat costs less than half that median, which is why its paid tiers matter more now than its free one.

This review walks through the free limits, the five paid seats and the bill for a 10-person team, then prices Toggl Track, Harvest and Everhour on their own pages. All prices were read on November 4, 2026.

Clockify is a time tracker and timesheet app from CAKE.com, the company that also makes the Pumble team chat and Plaky project boards. People log hours with a timer, a weekly timesheet, a calendar view or an automatic tracker on web, desktop and mobile, and managers turn those entries into reports, invoices and payroll-ready attendance.

It sits between a pure freelancer timer and a workforce management suite. The higher tiers add scheduling, GPS tracking, a kiosk for shared devices and labor cost reporting. That lets the same app serve an agency billing clients by the hour or a field crew clocking in on a tablet. If your hours feed project plans rather than invoices, our project management software ranking covers tools with tracking built in.

A new workspace starts on a 7-day trial of the paid features with no card, then falls back to the Free plan unless you upgrade. During the trial you can invite as many people as you like; when it ends, Clockify keeps the owner and the first four invitees active and deactivates everyone else.

Paid plans are billed per seat, and a seat is any active or invited user, owner and admins included. Deactivating someone frees the seat, and a seat bought mid-cycle is charged pro rata. You can cancel at any time from the Subscription page, but Clockify says it does not refund payments except for billing errors. The trial is therefore the place to test before you pay for a year.

Clockify lists five paid plans per seat per month in USD, each 20% cheaper on annual billing: Basic $3.99 annually or $4.99 monthly, Standard $5.49 or $6.99, Pro $7.99 or $9.99, Enterprise $11.99 or $14.99, and the CAKE.com Bundle $12.99 or $15.99. Prices were checked on November 4, 2026 on the Clockify pricing page, and the free plan limits in the Clockify help article on the Free plan update.

Scenario: a 10-person team for one year. The free plan is out, because it keeps only five active users. On annual billing, Basic costs $478.80, Standard $658.80 and Pro $958.80 (10 seats x 12 months, our arithmetic). Monthly billing raises the same year to $598.80, $838.80 and $1,198.80. The same team pays $1,020 on Everhour Team, $1,080 on Harvest Teams ($108 per seat a year) and $1,080 on Toggl Track Starter, all on annual billing. Even Clockify Pro, with scheduling and GPS, costs less than the entry paid tier of those three.

Scenario: a team of five. Clockify Free and Everhour Free both cover five people at $0, Toggl Track's free plan stops at three users and Harvest's free plan has one seat and two projects. For a small team that only needs hours, Clockify Free remains the most generous of the four, provided 31-day reports and PDF exports are acceptable.

What changed: an archived copy of the pricing page from January 2026 said the free plan let you invite as many users as you wanted, and the April 2026 copy limits it to four invitees. Paid seat prices are unchanged between the two copies. Rival prices come from the Toggl Track, Harvest and Everhour pricing pages, read the same day. Methodology: list prices before tax, annual and monthly billing compared like for like, totals shown as our arithmetic.

Clockify fits teams of six to a few dozen people who bill by the hour or need attendance data and want to pay as little per seat as possible. Agencies and consultancies get billable rates on Basic, and invoicing and approvals on Standard, for less than rivals charge for their entry tier. Field and shift teams get GPS, scheduling and kiosk clock-in on Pro without moving to a separate workforce suite.

A freelancer or a team of five should stay on the free plan until a report longer than a month, a CSV export or a billable rate becomes a weekly need. Pass on Clockify if your team cares most about planning: Toggl Track sells capacity management as an add-on to its paid plans. And if hours are only a side feature of project work, ClickUp or Asana may already cover them.