All five tools here have a free plan, and they disagree about how many people may use it. TimeCamp is the only one that keeps unlimited users and unlimited projects free forever. Clockify frees up to 5 users with unlimited tracking, timesheets, auto tracker and desktop and mobile apps. Toggl's free tier covers a limited number of users without publishing the number, alongside unlimited projects and tags. Harvest's free plan is 1 seat and 2 projects, a genuine single-freelancer product rather than a team plan. Hubstaff's free plan holds exactly 1 seat for the organization owner, with basic time tracking and activity levels. The paid step-up is where the long-term cost shows: Clockify Basic and TimeCamp Starter both start at $3.99 per user per month annual, Toggl Starter at $9, Harvest Teams at $9, Hubstaff Starter at $4.99 with a 2-seat minimum and per-seat add-ons. Watch two meters: TimeCamp's AI time tracker bills by token usage at roughly $6 per user per month, more than the Starter plan itself, and Hubstaff's monitoring extras are all per-seat. Decision: five or fewer users start on Clockify; more than five starts on TimeCamp; a solo freelancer can live on Harvest; a reporting-led team graduates to Toggl. Prices re-checked on the date shown.
4.1/5: unlimited users and unlimited projects at $0, plus timesheets, desktop app and 2-factor authentication; paid floor $3.99/user/mo annual.
Free tier: Yes · 14-day trial on paid plans, no card
Paid from: $3.99/user/mo (Starter, annual) (Seat-based, but the free plan already allows unlimited users and unlimited projects. An AI Time Tracker add-on bills by token usage at an estimated $6 per user per month for time-entry suggestions, with the trial including $10 in credits. Enterprise is custom-quoted.)
TimeCamp is the unlimited-free pick: a free forever plan with unlimited users and unlimited projects, paid tiers from $3.99 per user per month annual, and an AI time tracker billed by token usage.
4.3/5: free for up to 5 users with unlimited tracking, timesheets, auto tracker and mobile and desktop apps; paid from $3.99/seat/mo annual.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $3.99/seat/mo (Basic, annual) (Seat-based; every active or invited user occupies a seat and deactivated users do not. The free tier allows up to 5 users with unlimited time tracking, timesheets, auto tracker and desktop apps. Kiosk access for shared devices is sold as limited seats at $0.79 to $2.39 per seat per month annual. A combined CAKE.com bundle is listed at $27.97 per seat per month, advertised as saving 53%.)
Clockify is the volume leader on price: free for up to 5 users with unlimited tracking, then Basic $3.99 and Standard $5.49 per seat per month annual — the cheapest paid entry in this comparison.
4.4/5: free for a limited number of users with unlimited projects, tags and calendar integrations; Starter $9/user/mo annual once the cap bites.
Free tier: Yes · 30-day trial on Starter and Premium
Paid from: $9/user/mo (Starter, annual) (Seat-based. The free tier covers a limited number of users with unlimited projects and tags; paid tiers add billable rates, team capacity signals, PTO and holiday tracking, and a dedicated customer success manager on Premium. Enterprise plans are custom-quoted via sales.)
Toggl Track is the design-first tracker: free tier for a limited number of users, then Starter $9 per user per month and Premium $16 on annual billing, with capacity planning layered on top.
4.2/5: free forever with 1 seat and 2 projects, including invoicing features; Teams $9/seat/mo annual for a second seat.
Free tier: Yes · 30-day trial on Teams and Enterprise, no card required
Paid from: $9/seat/mo (Teams, annual) (Seat-based with unlimited users on the free plan's limits replaced by seat counts on paid plans. Teams covers unlimited seats' worth of tracking and invoicing features; Enterprise adds unapproved time tracking rules, expense and budget forecasting, and custom provisioning. Payments and invoices run inside Harvest, so a share of billing volume flows through the platform.)
Harvest is the invoicing-shaped tracker: a free plan with 1 seat and 2 projects, Teams at $9 per seat per month annual, Enterprise at $14, and payments processed through the product itself.
3.9/5: free plan is 1 seat for the organization owner with basic tracking and activity levels; Starter $4.99/seat/mo annual with a 2-seat minimum.
Free tier: Yes · 14-day trial, no card; 30-day money-back guarantee
Paid from: $4.99/seat/mo (Starter, annual, 2-seat minimum) (Seat-based with a 2-seat billing minimum on every paid tier. The free plan covers exactly one seat for the organization owner. Per-seat add-ons run alongside the plan: Insights $2.50, Tasks $2.50, Data retention $1.67, more screenshots $2.50, Locations $3.33 and Silent app $2.50 per seat per month, some with a 3-month trial.)
Hubstaff is the monitoring-first tracker: a 1-seat free plan, paid tiers from $4.99 per seat per month annual with a 2-seat minimum, plus per-seat add-ons for insights, screenshots, locations and silent app tracking.
Bottom line: TimeCamp has the most generous free plan in the class with unlimited users and projects; Clockify is the strongest free plan for a team of up to five; Toggl gives the best free experience but will not tell you when the cap bites; Harvest's free plan is for one person with two projects; Hubstaff's free plan is one seat that exists to lead into paid monitoring tiers. Free plans are for starting — the bill begins with the sixth user, the second seat or the first invoice.
TimeCamp, with unlimited users and unlimited projects on its free forever plan. Every other tool here caps the free tier: Clockify at 5 users, Harvest at 1 seat, Hubstaff at 1 seat, Toggl at an unpublished number.
Up to 5 users, with unlimited time tracking, timesheets, auto tracker, desktop and mobile apps. The 6th user requires a paid plan starting at $3.99 per seat per month on annual billing.
No. Toggl's free tier covers a limited number of users — the page does not publish the number — with unlimited projects and tags. Teams that outgrow it move to Starter at $9 per user per month annual.
Only partially. Harvest's free plan includes invoicing for 1 seat and 2 projects. Clockify and TimeCamp include invoicing features on paid tiers. Hubstaff's free plan has no payments or invoices.
TimeCamp, because it is the only free plan here that allows more than five users. The alternatives are Clockify above five, or paid plans from $3.99 per seat per month annual.
The free plans themselves are $0. Watch the step-ups instead: TimeCamp's AI time tracker costs about $6 per user per month in tokens, and Hubstaff's monitoring add-ons cost $1.67 to $3.33 per seat per month.