BuddyPunch
For small-to-mid teams that need straightforward employee time tracking with GPS and payroll-ready exports
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Category
Operations & Workflow
Price
from $5.99
Price basis
per user a month plus $19/mo base fee
Our research
price read 22 Oct 2026
Our research · cost as your team grows
What BuddyPunch costs at each size
The cheapest plan that fits, on annual billing, in USD. Price rules written from the vendor’s pricing page as we read it on 2026-10-22, every amount quoted; tax excluded unless the vendor says otherwise.
| users | Cheapest fit | Per month | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starter | $23.99 | $287.88 per year |
| 2 | Starter | $28.98 | $347.76 per year |
| 3 | Starter | $33.97 | $407.64 per year |
| 5 | Starter | $43.95 | $527.40 per year |
| 10 | Starter | $68.90 | $826.80 per year |
| 15 | Starter | $93.85 | $1,126.20 per year |
| 20 | Starter | $118.80 | $1,425.60 per year |
| 25 | Starter | $143.75 | $1,725 per year |
| 50 | Starter | $268.50 | $3,222 per year |
| 100 | Starter | $518 | $6,216 per year |
Not in these numbers: The payroll add-on ($8 per user plus a $49 base a month) and the six-year data retention add-on ($24 per user a year) are not modelled.
What we found — independently
Researched by AIBM, not supplied by the vendor. The vendor has not been involved in this page at all.
Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence
Genuinely good for
small-to-mid teams that need straightforward employee time tracking with GPS and payroll-ready exports
Skip it if
you're a team of two or three: the fixed base fee makes the per-head cost sting until you scale up
Read our full BuddyPunch review →
Source: our own researched dossier on BuddyPunch, the same one behind the Honest Software Atlas and our reviews. Flags are derived from that text and each one carries the sentence it came from, so you can judge it yourself. Prices move — always check the vendor’s live pricing page before you buy.
Open questions
What our research could not answer about BuddyPunch
- Can an administrator bulk-import employees from a CSV file, or does support have to do it?
- When will Buddy Punch webhooks send punch and time card events?
- Is the six-year data retention add-on billed yearly even on a monthly plan?
- Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?
- Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?
- Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?
- Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: The payroll add-on ($8 per user plus a $49 base a month) and the six-year data retention add-on ($24 per user a year) are not modelled. Can you publish the price or the rule?
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