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Harvest pricing

Harvest pricing: Free for 1 seat; Teams from $9/seat/mo (annual) plus usage charges. Free plan: yes — 1 seat, 2 projects. Each figure links to the comparison it was verified in.

Entry price
Free for 1 seat; Teams from $9/seat/mo (annual) plus usage chargesPer seat per month, billed annually ($11 monthly), plus usage charges on Flex billingVerified in clockify-vs-harvest
Free plan
Free planYes — 1 seat, 2 projects
Bill Belcamino
Bottom line up frontby Bill Belcamino, founder of HelpCompare
Editorial assessment

Bottom line up front: Is Harvest's $9 per seat the real price?

Not quite: Harvest Teams is from $9/seat/mo billed annually ($11 monthly), plus usage charges on Flex billing whose rates Harvest does not publish.

Flex billing adds charges for projects, clients, tasks and invoicing above an allowance, so an agency with many small clients is the buyer most exposed. Usage pricing creeps quietly, because nobody gets an alert when the fortieth small job goes in. Two habits keep it honest: ask Harvest in writing whether archived projects and clients count toward the allowance, and if they don't, make archiving part of closing every job. Then check each invoice against the allowance every month for the first quarter, so a surprise shows up while it's small. Invoicing is on every plan, and Enterprise from $14/seat/mo annual adds SAML SSO but no SCIM.

My read of the verified data on this page, checked against vendor sources on September 19, 2026. Disagree or spot an error? Tell Bill

Everything we have verified about Harvest

Every row was recorded on a HelpCompare comparison page. The Source column links to the page it was verified on and the date it was last checked.

AttributeValueSource & date
Entry price Free for 1 seat; Teams from $9/seat/mo (annual) plus usage charges clockify-vs-harvest
Free plan Yes — 1 seat, 2 projects clockify-vs-harvest
Usage charges Flex billing adds charges for projects, clients, tasks and invoicing above an allowance (rates not published) clockify-vs-harvest
Enterprise From $14/seat/mo annual clockify-vs-harvest
Invoicing Every plan clockify-vs-harvest
SSO / SCIM SAML SSO on Enterprise; no SCIM clockify-vs-harvest
Verified data

Harvest security, offline access & remote work

Compliance reports, sign-in controls, offline access and the setup details that matter for remote, hybrid and in-office teams. Each value links to the vendor page it came from. Harvest’s own security documentation: support.getharvest.com. Scope: Harvest time tracking and invoicing; Harvest Forecast not researched.

Security & compliance

SOC 2 report
Not published
ISO/IEC 27001
Not published
Other certifications
PCI DSS (merchant certificate)source
HIPAA (BAA)
Not published
GDPR data processing agreement
DPA offeredsource
Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
YesEnterprisesource
SCIM user provisioning
Nosource
Two-factor authentication
YesEnforcement: Teamssource
Admin audit log
YesEnterprisesource
Data residency choices
US onlysource
Encryption
TLS 1.2/1.3 in transit; backups AES-256 at rest; attachments encrypted at rest on Amazon S3source
Self-hosting option
Cloud onlysource

Offline access

Offline mode
Works offlineThe iPhone and Android apps track time and log expenses offline and sync when reconnected; the browser and desktop apps need an internet connection, though a running timer keeps running.source
Desktop apps
Windows, macOSsource
Mobile apps
iOS, Androidsource
Offline limits
Offline works only in the mobile apps; browser and desktop apps require a strong internet connection.source

Remote, hybrid & in-office

IP allowlisting
Not published
Device & session controls
Not published

Harvest: worth knowing

  • SecurityWhen enabled, two-factor authentication is an account-wide sign-in requirement for everyone, and it is mandatory for accounts connected to Xero. source
  • RemoteAll Harvest data is stored in the U.S. (Google Cloud, with AWS backups), with no customer-selectable region. source
  • OfficeHarvest's Gusto payroll sync is only for US-based Gusto customers and must be run by an Administrator. source

Checked September 19, 2026 against each vendor’s own trust center, help docs and app pages. Hover or tap “source” to see the exact wording we relied on. “Not published” means we could not find the vendor saying it on its own site; it doesn’t mean the feature is missing. Plan names are the lowest plan the vendor says includes the feature. Security · Offline · Remote vs office · Download the data

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Where this data comes from

HelpCompare records pricing and feature data from vendor pricing pages and documentation at the time each comparison is researched, then re-checks it on a published schedule. This entity page is generated from those records — it does not introduce any figure that has not already been verified on a comparison page.

  • Vendor pricing and documentation — www.getharvest.com, checked September 19, 2026.
  • HelpCompare research — 2 comparison pages listed above, each with its own verification date.
  • G2 — aggregate rating and review count (none recorded for this tool). Review counts change daily; treat them as a snapshot.
  • Machine-readable copy — /data/tools.json, /data/tools.csv, and the open data hub.
Prices change often and vendors do not always announce it. Every figure here carries the date it was last checked — confirm current pricing with the vendor before you buy. If you find something out of date, the comparison page it came from is linked in the table above.
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Bill Belcamino

Founder and author, HelpCompare

Engineer by training, operator by experience, marketer by choice. Bill spent eight and a half years as an engineer at HP, was COO of Auctiva (the number one third-party selling platform on eBay, past 200,000 users) and ran Google’s $70M/year search syndication partnership at Alot.com. Then he spent 13 years building his own web properties with his own money at stake. He has bought, trialled, integrated and cancelled more SaaS tools than he can count, and started HelpCompare because the real cost of switching tools is the part nobody covers.

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