Harvest is a solid, well-known time tracker. Timebun is built for firms that sell retainers and prepaid hours and want clients to see their own balance. Here's where the two differ, including the part of Harvest's pricing that isn't on its pricing page.
Harvest bills each paid plan one of two ways. On Flex, you pay a per-seat rate plus usage-based charges for active projects, active clients, active tasks and invoicing above a free allowance, starting at your second paid renewal. Harvest's help center gives its own example of a bill going "from a seats-only $44 to $404 once usage is added". On Unlimited billing there are no usage charges. Harvest's pricing page shows neither the usage rates nor the price of Unlimited billing; an account's Billing settings do.
Timebun's per-seat and flat-rate plans include unlimited clients, projects, and invoices — no meter, no overage line item, no surprise renewal invoice.
Harvest's billing options as described in its help center, read October 13, 2026. See sources below.
Harvest has a free plan and two paid plans priced per seat. It advertises 20% off for paying a year up front.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1 seat, 2 projects |
| Teams | $11 per seat a month | $9 per seat a month ($108 a year) | Time tracking, team reporting, invoicing, accounting and payment integrations |
| Enterprise | $17.50 per seat a month | $14 per seat a month ($168 a year) | Everything in Teams, plus profitability reporting, timesheet approvals, activity log and SAML SSO |
| Enterprise Plus | Custom | Custom | Custom integrations, white labeling, a dedicated success manager |
On the paid plans the per-seat price is a base rate. Harvest's pricing page says "additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use". Its help center calls this Flex billing, and says each plan can instead be billed as Unlimited, at a fixed price with no usage charges. Neither the usage rates nor the price of Unlimited billing is on the pricing page.
Timebun is priced per seat while a team is small, then a flat $199 a month (or $159 a month billed yearly) from 14 people, with no usage charges.
Prices as published at getharvest.com/pricing, checked October 13, 2026.
Timebun sells named retainer plans and pre-paid hour bundles as first-class objects, with rollover rules and low-balance alerts. Harvest has retainers too, as funds collected up front that invoices draw from, and project budgets in hours or fees. We found no retainer or block counted in hours, with rollover, on Harvest's site as of October 13, 2026.
Every Timebun plan includes a portal where clients see their balance, pay invoices, and top up hours themselves. Harvest gives clients a dashboard of their outstanding invoices and recent payments, where they can pay without signing in. We found nothing on Harvest's site, as of October 13, 2026, that shows a client their hours, time entries or a balance.
Clients, projects, and invoices are unlimited on every Timebun plan. On Harvest's Flex billing, usage above a free allowance is charged on top of seats, from the second paid renewal. Harvest also offers Unlimited billing, at a fixed price that is not on its pricing page.
| Timebun | Harvest | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per seat while small; flat $199/mo (or $159/mo billed yearly) from 14 people — every hire after that is free | Per seat: $11/seat/mo (Teams) or $17.50/seat/mo (Enterprise) billed monthly, $9 or $14 billed yearly, plus usage on Flex billing |
| Clients, projects & invoices | Unlimited on every plan | Flex billing: a free allowance, then usage charges. Unlimited billing: a fixed priceNeither the rates nor the Unlimited price is on the pricing page |
| Retainers & pre-paid hours | Named plans, rollover, low-balance alerts | Retainers as funds that invoices draw from; project budgetsNo retainer counted in hours found on their site |
| Client portal | Included on every plan | Client dashboard: invoices and paymentsNo client view of hours or a balance found on their site |
| Margin / profitability reporting | Included from the Unlimited plan ($199/mo) | Included, Enterprise plan only ($17.50/seat/mo) |
| AI / MCP integration | Built in on every plan | Not listed on their site |
| Online payments | Stripe, including recurring retainer billing | Stripe or PayPal, per invoice |
| Billing terms | Month-to-month, cancel anytime | Month-to-month, cancel anytime |
Harvest pricing and features as published at getharvest.com and in its help center, checked October 13, 2026. The calculator's overage rates are user-reported, not published by Harvest — full sources below.
Seats, plus an estimate of the usage charges on Harvest's Flex billing, which its pricing page doesn't put a number on. Toggle it off to compare seats only.
Overage estimate assumes roughly one project and one invoice per client per month, on top of Harvest's reported free allowance (3 clients, 4 projects, 4 invoices) at user-reported rates (~$15 per extra client, project, or invoice). Harvest doesn't publish these rates — treat this as directional, not exact. On Harvest's Unlimited billing there are no usage charges; its price is not published either. Sources below.
The overage rates in source 6 are user-reported (shared account screenshots), not confirmed by Harvest directly — we've labelled every figure derived from them as an estimate throughout this page, and the calculator lets you turn the estimate off to compare seat cost only.
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Yes. Connect a Harvest access token and Timebun imports clients, projects, people, tasks, and time across in five guided steps. You can re-run it right up until the day you switch, so nothing has to happen in one sitting.
No. Harvest has timesheet approval and copies invoices and payments to QuickBooks Online or Xero, and it sells Forecast, a separate product, for scheduling teams. Timebun has none of those. What Timebun has, and we did not find on Harvest's site, is retainers and prepaid blocks counted in hours, and a portal where clients see their balance and buy more hours. If your team needs a shared timer and invoicing with no retainer in hours, Harvest's Free or Teams plan may be all you need; on Flex billing, check the usage charges in your Billing settings.
Because per-seat pricing stops making sense once a team is big enough — it just taxes every hire. Unlimited is cheaper than Starter's per-seat rate from 14 people on, flat, however many you add after that.
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