Clockify pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Clockify (clockify.me) is a time tracker. Per-seat monthly plans from Basic to Enterprise plus a CAKE.com bundle, with annual billing about 20% cheaper and a free plan for up to 5 users.. Free plan: Up to 5 users; public projects only; reports limited to a one-month window..
What Clockify costs
- 1 user: $4.99/mo (Basic $4.99/user/mo on monthly billing ($3.99 annual); no base fee, seat minimum or project cap.)
- 10 users: $49.90/mo (Basic $4.99 x 10 seats = $49.90/mo; the free plan caps at 5 users so it does not qualify; no seat minimum; kiosk-only seats not used.)
Plan compared: Basic plan at $4.99 per user per month on monthly billing, one user.. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). The headline is one user on the cheapest paid plan; the team figure is the total for 10 users on the cheapest plan, free plans included, that gives an admin team-wide reports.
What Clockify does
Core: Project time tracking, Work-tool integrations, Mobile apps, Desktop and browser apps.
Important: Automatic time capture (partly), Billable rates, Budgets and profitability, Timesheet approvals, Advanced reporting.
Also has: Employee activity monitoring, Personal focus insights (partly), Invoices & online payment (partly), Expense tracking, Time clock & attendance (partly), Time off & leave, Payroll and contractor pay, Workload & capacity planning (partly), Security and compliance (partly).
Clockify price hikes
- Clockify capped its free plan at 5 users and moved features to paid · Apr 21, 2026
Free workspaces were cut to five active users and reports to a one-month window, and CSV/XLS export, kiosk mode, shared reports, private projects and billable tracking moved to paid. Announced 21 Apr 2026; no effective date is stated.
Alternatives to Clockify
Clockify is the cheapest time tracker we track at 1 user. The others:
- Harvest: $11/mo
- Toggl Track: $12/mo
Clockify alternatives: 2 time trackers compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Clockify
- Bonsai (Freelancer business tools): covers 47% of Clockify; missing or partial: Work-tool integrations (partly), Desktop and browser apps (partly), Automatic time capture, Billable rates (partly), Budgets and profitability (partly)
- FreshBooks (Accounting): covers 47% of Clockify; missing or partial: Work-tool integrations (partly), Desktop and browser apps (partly), Automatic time capture, Billable rates (partly), Budgets and profitability (partly)
- Gusto (Payroll & HR): covers 34% of Clockify; missing or partial: Project time tracking (partly), Work-tool integrations, Mobile apps (partly), Desktop and browser apps, Automatic time capture
Every change we logged
- Apr 21, 2026 · Free tier cut: Free workspaces were cut to five active users and reports to a one-month window, and CSV/XLS export, kiosk mode, shared reports, private projects and billable tracking moved to paid. Announced 21 Apr 2026; no effective date is stated.
Sources
Pricing page: clockify.me/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from Clockify's official pricing page and match Capterra's monthly and actiTIME's annual figures. The only recorded change is the April 2026 free-plan cut, sourced to a rival vendor's write-up (Jibble) with no effective date stated; CostBench's conflicting '$27.97' (Feb 2026) and 'top tier $15 to $16' (Aug 2026) entries are unsupported and left out, and the Aug 2026 tier-count rise matches the new $15.99 CAKE.com Bundle, a new tier rather than a hike.