Clockify Review 2026: Free Plan Limits, Paid Pricing, Pros and Cons

Clockify built its name on being the free time tracker, and for a small team it still is. The catch arrived in 2026: the pricing card now says the free plan is for up to 5 users, so a growing business hits a paywall at its sixth hire instead of never.

This review is for an owner or HR lead choosing a time tracker for employees, not a freelancer logging billable hours.

It covers what the free plan holds, which paid tier unlocks the controls payroll depends on, and how the bill compares with Toggl Track, Harvest and Jibble.

Hourly crews who need GPS-stamped clock-ins should also read our time clock software comparison.

Toolradar data: Clockify is listed as an alternative to 42 other tools on Toolradar, the most of any of the 115 time tracking tools it tracks (November 2026). Buyers who shortlist anything in this category tend to end up comparing against Clockify, which is why its free-plan change matters.

Methodology: every price and limit below was read on the vendors' own pricing pages on November 4, 2026. The free-plan change comes from archived copies of Clockify's pricing page dated April 21 and May 5, 2026. Totals are our arithmetic from printed per-seat prices; we do not run a test lab.

Clockify is a time tracker and timesheet app from CAKE.com, sold on web, desktop and mobile. Employees start a timer or fill in a weekly timesheet, and managers see who is working on what and run reports by project, client or person.

The free plan is generous inside its cap. It covers unlimited tracking, a timer and timesheet, an auto tracker for apps and websites that only the user can see, calendar sync, idle detection and reminders, the team activity view and reports.

For a 4-person agency or a small office that only needs hours on record, that is the whole job.

What the free plan lacks is control. There is no kiosk, no way to add time for someone else, no required fields and no way to hide other people's entries; those start on Basic. Approvals, locked timesheets, time off and overtime reports start on Standard, and GPS tracking, scheduling and expenses sit on Pro. If the reason you track time is payroll or labor law, plan on a paid tier from day one.

People who want the wider category can start from our best time tracking software ranking, and teams that only need a free punch clock should see the free time clock apps guide.

You create a workspace, invite people, and they track time by timer, timesheet, calendar or a shared kiosk. Every active or invited user takes a paid seat once you upgrade, including the owner, admins and managers, so a pending invitation costs money; deactivate people who have left.

The tiers stack. Basic adds the kiosk, adding time for others, bulk edits, required fields and break tracking. Standard adds timesheet approval, locking past entries, time off and holiday policies, attendance and overtime reports, rounding and the QuickBooks sync.

Pro adds GPS tracking, kiosk photo capture to stop buddy punching, scheduling, expenses, labor cost and a choice of data region in the EU, UK, USA or Australia. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM provisioning and an audit log.

Kiosk-only workers are the cost lever most buyers miss. On paid plans, staff who only clock in at a shared kiosk can sit on limited seats, priced from $0.79 a month on Basic with yearly billing. A warehouse or shop floor can therefore stay far cheaper than its headcount suggests, as long as only office staff get full seats.

Prices on the pricing page follow your general location, and you can switch the currency by hand, so confirm you are reading the US dollar card before you budget.

Clockify's pricing page, checked on November 4, 2026, prices every tier per seat per month. Basic is $3.99 billed yearly or $4.99 monthly, Standard $5.49 or $6.99, Pro $7.99 or $9.99, and Enterprise $11.99 or $14.99.

The CAKE.com Bundle, which adds team chat and project management apps on top of Enterprise features, is $12.99 billed yearly or $15.99 monthly.

Limited kiosk seats cost $0.79 on Basic, $1.19 on Standard, $1.59 on Pro and $2.39 on Enterprise with yearly billing, or $0.99, $1.49, $1.99 and $2.99 monthly. Paid plans also come with a free 30-minute onboarding session.

The free plan changed this year. The April 21, 2026 archived copy of the pricing page shows the free card with no user limit, while the May 5, 2026 copy adds "For up to 5 users".

Some Clockify copy still calls the free plan unlimited; the pricing card is the current rule.

Here is what a 12-person team that needs approvals and time off pays for a year on Standard: $790.56 on yearly billing, or $1,006.56 paying monthly (our arithmetic from the printed seat prices).

On Toggl Track, timesheet approvals sit on Premium at $16 per user a month billed annually, so the same 12 people cost $2,304 a year. Harvest Teams is $108 per seat billed annually, or $1,296 for 12 seats.

Jibble stays free for unlimited users; check the current price of its paid upgrades on Jibble's site.

Pick Clockify Free if your team is 5 people or fewer and you only need hours on record. Pick Standard on yearly billing if you pay people from tracked time, because approvals, locked timesheets and overtime reports are what keep payroll clean.

Add limited kiosk seats for hourly staff who only clock in on a shared device, and keep full seats for managers.

Skip Clockify if your team is growing past 5 and nobody will pay for software, because Jibble keeps its time clock free for unlimited users. Skip it if you need GPS-verified clock-ins on a budget, since GPS sits on Clockify's Pro tier; compare the field in our construction time clock ranking.

If time off is the main job, our PTO tracking software page compares dedicated tools.