By Daan Haket · Tested hands-on · written with an AI assistant · who does what

Toggl's honesty problem is the good kind: the free tier is so capable that many teams never need to pay: the paid line is drawn exactly at 'do you bill clients' (budgets, rates, profitability). The tool we compare it with at each step below is Harvest.
From $9 · per user a month billed annually, or $12 monthly · read 2026-10-22
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Your pain“I bill by the hour and can't tell which clients and projects actually pay.”
Does Toggl solve it?YesOur test (28 Oct 2026): fifteen minutes logged against a $60 hourly project came out at exactly $15.00 billable, as it should.
Your planStarter, $9 per user a month billed annually ($12 monthly)
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Your pain“My team needs leave approvals and planning beyond this month, and the sticker price leaves those out.”
Does Toggl solve it?PartlyPricing page, read 22 October 2026: leave approvals and planning beyond the current month are paid add-ons, not part of any plan.
Your planPremium, $16 per user a month billed annually, plus the $2 Time Off Pro and $5 Capacity Management add-ons
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Which Toggl plan do you need?
4 plans, 3 questions, no signup.
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Your plan
Free
$0 (free forever)
Up to 3 users, time tracking for your own discipline
Your plan
Starter
$9 per user a month billed annually, $12 monthly
Billable rates, team revenue reports, capacity, PTO and holidays
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Premium
$16 per user a month billed annually, $24 monthly
Profitability, fixed-fee projects, timesheet approvals, SSO
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Enterprise
Quoted
Volume discounts on annual, multiple workspaces under one organisation
Prices as we read them on 2026-10-22; check the checkout before you pay. The plan button is an affiliate link: we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
What each plan costs a month on annual billing (monthly billing below it), per user from Toggl’s own pricing page. The cheapest plan at each size is marked. On annual billing the cheapest plan changes from Free to Starter between 3 and 5 users. Free stops at 3 users; Enterprise is quote only.
| Users | Free | Starter | Premium | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user | $0Best value at this size | $9 $12 monthly | $16 $24 monthly | quote only |
| 3 users | $0Best value at this size | $27 $36 monthly | $48 $72 monthly | quote only |
| 5 users | not available | $45Best value at this size $60 monthly | $80 $120 monthly | quote only |
| 10 users | not available | $90Best value at this size $120 monthly | $160 $240 monthly | quote only |
| 25 users | not available | $225Best value at this size $300 monthly | $400 $600 monthly | quote only |
| 50 users | not available | $450Best value at this size $600 monthly | $800 $1,200 monthly | quote only |
Prices read 2026-10-22; tax excluded unless the vendor says otherwise. Calculated by our cost engine; the same numbers are in our open data.
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Tested by our team on 28 October 2026 on the free trial: Daan created the account and our AI assistant ran the test in Daan's browser. We logged three time entries with known durations, set a billable rate, exported the reports, tried to import one export again and opened the upgrade without paying.
How we tested
✓ Pricing re-verified 22 Oct 2026
“$6 / per user per month”Source: toggl.com/pricing, read 25 Oct 2026
Free is $0 and the page calls it free forever; the pricing FAQ read 22 October 2026 sets its limit at up to 3 users. Starter is $9 per user a month billed annually and $12 monthly; Premium is $16 annually and $24 monthly; Enterprise is quoted. The introductory $14 Premium rate renewing at $18 that we recorded in August is gone, Premium now carries one annual price.
The billing toggle advertises 'Annual (Save 33.3%)' and '4 months free', which holds exactly for Premium but not for Starter, where $12 to $9 is 25%. Trial is 30 days; Enterprise adds volume discounts on annual and multiple workspaces under one organisation. Re-read on 22 October 2026 with the same four plans and figures. What is new is the product around them: the pricing page now sells one Toggl that combines time tracking with project planning and capacity management, and notes that Toggl Track and Toggl Plan remain available and supported for existing users.
Two paid add-ons sit on top of the paid plans: Time Off Pro at $2 per user a month (approval workflows, accrual balances, custom leave policies) and Capacity Management at $5 per user a month billed annually or $6 monthly (capacity beyond the current month, team roll-ups, draft projects, forecasting). Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.
Category context: Operations & Workflow. Across the 53 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $25 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Toggl’s entry price of $9 a month sits below that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
We read Toggl’s own pricing page on a schedule and keep every reading, so this is our record of the page. It is not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary. A change appears here only after we confirmed the new price on the page itself.
In August 2026 we recorded an introductory Premium rate of $14 renewing at $18. By 9 September Premium carried a single $16 annual price, and on 1 October 2026 the ladder was unchanged: Starter $9 a user a month billed annually or $12 monthly, Premium $16 or $24, Free at $0 and Enterprise on quote. Re-read on 22 October 2026: Starter $9 or $12 and Premium $16 or $24, unchanged for the third reading running. The add-on prices, $2 for Time Off Pro and $5 or $6 for Capacity Management, are the first we have recorded.

If you do, Starter earns itself fast; if you track time for personal discipline, resist the upgrade. Time tracking's real cost everywhere is adoption: the tool is frictionless, but the habit still has to be built. Two newer cost lines are easy to miss: leave approvals and accruals sit in the $2 Time Off Pro add-on rather than in any plan, and capacity planning beyond the current month is the Capacity Management add-on at $5 to $6 per user, so a team buying Premium for planning should price both.
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Time tracking and capacity planning for freelancers, consultants and agencies, with budgets, rates and profitability per project. Relaunched from Toggl Track to Toggl in 2026.

Hands-on: tested 2026-10-28Reported by buyers: G2 and Capterra, read August 2026
Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We tested Toggl ourselves on 2026-10-28, but one test is a narrow sample, so here is what other buyers report. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
Free is $0 for up to 3 users and Toggl calls it free forever. The introductory $14 rate renewing at $18 that we recorded in August is no longer on the page. Check the annual promise against the plan, because it only holds for one of them. The toggle offers '4 months free' and 'Save 33.3%', and Premium delivers exactly that: $24 monthly against $16 annually is eight months' money for twelve.
Starter does not: $12 to $9 is 25%, which is three months, not four. On a ten-person team the annual switch saves $960 a year on Premium and $360 on Starter, so the discount is worth most to the tier that already costs most. The line between free and paid is the useful thing here. Behind the paywall sits the client-billing layer: billable rates, team revenue reports, capacity. So the question is binary rather than gradual.
If you invoice by time, Starter at $108 a licence a year costs less than an hour and a half of billable time at a $75 rate, and the first unbilled hour it catches has paid for it. If you track time for your own discipline rather than to bill anyone, the free plan is the product. Premium adds profitability and labour costs, fixed-fee projects, timesheet approvals and SSO. At 78% above Starter, name the one report you would actually open before taking it.
One change since that reading is the name, and it is worth stating plainly because it affects what you are buying. Read on toggl.com on 18 September 2026, Toggl Track has relaunched simply as Toggl, positioned as a time tracking and capacity planning platform rather than a timer. The pricing page describes itself the same way, 'now with capacity management and project planning', and the plan cards carry it through: PTO, public holidays and flexible hours from Starter, capacity and margin monitoring on Premium, plus Toggl AI, which answers plain-language questions about hours logged, billable versus non-billable and projects over estimate.
Two things did not change. Every price above is the same at this reading, and Toggl's own site states that existing Toggl Track and Toggl Plan users keep both products, supported. Price the add-ons with the plan if planning is why you are buying. Leave approvals, accruals and leave policies are not in any plan but in Time Off Pro at $2 per user a month; paid plans without it log paid time off and public holidays but have no approval flow.
Capacity indicators on paid plans cover this week and this month, and looking further ahead is the Capacity Management add-on at $5 per user a month billed annually. A ten-person team on annual Premium with both add-ons pays $23 a user, $230 a month, against $160 for Premium alone.
Our monthly capture read this pricing page in September 2026 and again in October 2026. The price history below explains what changed.
The first findings are at the top of this page. The rest:
We set a claim from Toggl's own pages next to what we saw in our test, on the plan named. The status says whether the two describe the same thing and match; it is not a verdict on the product. Confirmations are listed too.
| What the vendor says | What we measured | Status | What it means if you buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-day trialSource: toggl.com, read 25 Oct 2026 | Measured 2026-10-28: The app states 31 days and Ends November 28 after signup on 28 October. The 30-day claim is from Toggl pricing; the account redirects to Toggl Focus.Our test, 28 Oct 2026; Premium trial in Toggl Focus | Not comparableSame session and tested trial; only the visible statements were compared. | Do not promise an extra free day. Counting the start day alone does not settle the difference between 30 and 31; exact start/end times are missing, and the tested app differs from the pricing context. |
| $24 per license a month (Premium, monthly billing)Source: focus.toggl.com, read 28 Oct 2026 | Measured 2026-10-28: Monthly in-app prices are Starter $12 and Premium $24. Upgrade warns that the current trial will finish immediately. The payment screen was not reached.Our test, 28 Oct 2026; Premium trial in Toggl Focus | Not testableNo checkout reached; cost-rule comparison unavailable. In-app prices differ in product context from the older Track rule. | Tax-inclusive price and final payment conditions remain unknown. |
Exported the custom time entries from the Toggl Focus trial as Summary CSV and Time logs CSV. Test date: 28 Oct 2026. We describe the friction rather than score it; this is one run with synthetic records, not a verdict on Toggl.
| What we checked | What we saw |
|---|---|
| Came along in the export |
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| Lost in the export |
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| Awkward but not lost | Export options carry a paid-feature star. Availability on Free after the trial was not tested. |
| Export route | Reports > Export; Summary and Time logs were exported separately. |
| Export format | CSV files opened and checked. PDF and XLSX options were visible but not inspected. |
| Re-importing the export | Reimport dry run of a modified Time logs CSV was blocked: combined start/stop fields need manual editing, and dash placeholders are treated as names. All three time entries would be skipped in match-only mode. Nothing was submitted; no native ID column was available. |
| Cancelling | Billing offers Change plan and Cancel trial on Trial - Focus Premium. No plan change or cancellation was confirmed. |
What the exit test does not show:
How this compares: across our exit tests of 102 tools, 57 gave us an export file. Toggl gave us a file, but some of our test data was missing or changed in it. Report 08: can you get your data out?
15 emails in the 14-day window; first email after signup: unknown (exact signup time not recorded); 0 with an explicit offer.
Retained inbox and junk only; removed or archived mail is outside this observation. Ambiguous supplier attribution is excluded. Day numbers use elapsed 24-hour periods since the recorded signup date at midnight Europe/Amsterdam; the signup hour is unknown. Offer flags quote literal subject/body text. Replies in our own correspondence (support tickets, our comment requests) are excluded; one-time codes, our own address, our account name and our name are replaced in brackets.
| Day | Time (UTC) | Sender | Literal subject | Folder | Offer evidence |
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| Day 0 | 2026-10-28 07:49:22 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Your Toggl code is [code] | inbox | |
| Day 0 | 2026-10-28 07:57:39 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Create tasks and track your time (1/6) | inbox | |
| Day 1 | 2026-10-29 07:01:50 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Morning, [our name], here's your day | inbox | |
| Day 1 | 2026-10-29 07:57:41 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Invite more people into your organization (2/5) | inbox | |
| Day 2 | 2026-10-30 07:01:51 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Morning, [our name], today's a blank slate | inbox | |
| Day 2 | 2026-10-30 07:57:38 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Use Reports to analyze where your time goes (3/5) | inbox | |
| Day 3 | 2026-10-31 07:57:46 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | You started tracking, let's not lose it | inbox | |
| Day 4 | 2026-11-01 07:57:47 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Here's what Premium gets you (5/5) | inbox | |
| Day 5 | 2026-11-02 07:01:50 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Morning, [our name], today's a blank slate | inbox | |
| Day 6 | 2026-11-03 07:01:32 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Morning, [our name], today's a blank slate | inbox | |
| Day 6 | 2026-11-03 07:57:49 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | One week in: here's why tracking pays off | inbox | |
| Day 7 | 2026-11-04 10:07:40 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Roles, My activity, lock time logs & more | inbox | |
| Day 9 | 2026-11-06 07:58:05 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Getting set up in Toggl | inbox | |
| Day 12 | 2026-11-09 07:03:29 UTC | Toggl team / toggl.com | Morning, [our name], today's a blank slate | inbox | |
| Day 12 | 2026-11-09 07:58:07 UTC | Toggl team / email.toggl.com | Your meetings, straight into Toggl | inbox |
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What this test does not show:
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Facts about Toggl that would change a buying decision, and where we stand on each. An unanswered question does not mean the feature is missing; it means we have not confirmed it yet.
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Answer one question before you look at plans: do you bill anyone by the hour? If yes, Starter is the plan: billable rates and revenue reporting are exactly what sits behind the paywall, and one recovered unbilled hour covers the year. If no, stay free; the free tier is a real product rather than a trial and a great many teams never need more. Start it on one person or one project rather than the whole team.
The thing that fails in time tracking is never the software, it is the habit, so find out whether the logging survives a busy week before you buy licences for everyone. If you are weighing annual against monthly, the toggle's promise does not apply evenly. It advertises '4 months free', and Premium delivers exactly that: $24 a month becomes $16. Starter goes $12 to $9, which is 25%: three months, not four.
Worth knowing before you assume the same saving carries to the cheaper plan. If you are switching from another tracker, start with the CSV import, which takes clients, projects, tasks, tags, members and time entries from another tool's export or a spreadsheet, so the history arrives with the team. On a free workspace count heads first: the pricing FAQ puts the free tier at up to 3 users, so the fourth person turns the trial into a purchase.
And decide before roll-out whether leave approvals matter, because they sit in the $2 Time Off Pro add-on rather than in Starter or Premium.
Sources for this review
toggl.com/track/pricing read on 9 September 2026, the four plan cards (Free, Starter, Premium, Enterprise) in both the annual and the monthly state of the billing toggle, together with the toggle's own '4 months free / Save 33.3%' claim and the feature lists each card carries. Re-read 1 October 2026: toggl.com/track/pricing/ now redirects to toggl.com/pricing, which serves both billing states and the 30-day trial line in its HTML; toggl.com/llms.txt and toggl.com/track/pricing.md return 404.
Re-read 22 October 2026 by plain fetch: toggl.com/pricing in both billing states, the add-on cards, the full plan comparison and the pricing FAQ (free tier up to 3 users, no-surveillance policy). No dated Toggl changelog was reachable without a browser.
The natural comparison is Harvest or Clockify: the classic trio: Clockify undercuts on price, Harvest bundles invoicing; Toggl wins on tracking UX and reporting depth. Weigh it against Harvest on the job you actually need done.
Exit check 2026-10-28; route excerpt: Reports > Export; came along (excerpts): Time logs retains all three entries, exact durations, start/stop times, project, client, billable flag and amount; lost (excerpts): The Summary CSV assigns all 0:18:48 to one project even though only 0:15:00 belongs to it; re-import: not tested.
Free is $0 for up to 3 users. Starter is $9 per user a month on annual billing and $12 monthly; Premium is $16 annually and $24 monthly; Enterprise is quoted. Read on 9 September 2026. The first-year $14 Premium rate that renewed at $18, which our August capture recorded, is no longer on the page: Premium now carries a single annual price.
On Premium, exactly what the toggle claims: $24 a month becomes $16, which is eight months' money for twelve: the advertised "4 months free". On Starter it is less: $12 becomes $9, a 25% cut, or three months. For a ten-person team that is $960 a year saved on Premium and $360 on Starter, so the discount is worth most to the tier that already costs most.
It covers up to 3 users with time tracking, which is enough for a freelancer or a pair. What it does not include is the budgeting and profitability reporting that make it a business tool: those start on Starter and Premium respectively. If you bill clients from the data, you are on a paid plan.
No. The pricing FAQ (read 22 October 2026) says Toggl does not monitor employees, take screenshots or record keystrokes, browsing history or location, and calls that a deliberate product decision. What it does offer is desktop activity tracking on Windows and macOS: apps and websites used for more than 10 seconds appear in a timeline that stays private to the user, who decides which of them become time entries. Idle detection and keyword-triggered reminders work the same way.
Time Off Pro is $2 per user a month and adds approval workflows routed to each requester's Team Lead, accrual balances, custom leave policies, an absence-and-balances report and a time-accounting report for payroll reviews. Capacity Management is $5 per user a month billed annually or $6 monthly and adds capacity beyond the current month, timeline roll-ups by team, draft projects for work not yet won and forecasting in the workload, utilisation and profitability reports. Read on toggl.com/pricing on 22 October 2026.
The plan comparison (read 22 October 2026) lists CSV imports of clients, projects, tasks, tags, members and time entries, from another tool's export or from your own spreadsheet, and exports of the Summary and Time Logs reports as CSV, Excel or PDF. Guests can be invited to view and manage tasks on projects they are added to, but cannot track time or see reporting and billing.
Premium. The Premium card lists timesheet approvals (weekly or monthly, with approved periods locked against edits), data-accuracy features, labour costs and profitability reports, fixed-fee projects, the Jira and Asana integrations and SSO. Enterprise adds custom roles, several workspaces under one organisation, priority support and a dedicated customer success manager, at a quoted price.
Yes. We tested Toggl ourselves on 2026-10-28; the section above says what we tested, what we found and what we did not test, and where a figure comes from the vendor's own documentation instead. Most of our reviews are researched rather than run; we say which is which. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
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