Kimai

Who it is for

For small teams and individuals. It runs on the web and a computer you control. License: AGPL-3.0. It is in the Time tracking group.

What you pay

Free plan: The AGPL app is free to run on your own server, including invoicing and timesheet export. The CSV importer plugin is marked for free on the store. Hosted price: Standard is €2.99 per user a month on the annual view and €3.99 on the monthly view. Professional is €3.99 and €4.99 on those views. Per user, excl. tax. The page says annual billing saves 20%. The two printed Standard prices are not a 20% gap. Checked 9 November 2026. Run it yourself: Setup: medium. Docker, or PHP with MariaDB or MySQL. The expense plugin is €99 a year excl. VAT on the store, and it keeps working after that year without updates. Cloud Professional includes expense tracking.

How to switch

• Compared with Harvest. Its price on file: Teams starts at $9 per seat a month, billed yearly ($108 per seat a year), or $11 billed monthly. Enterprise starts at $14, or $17.50 billed monthly. One customer reported $133.98 a month.

  What you give up: expenses.

  Free alternatives to Harvest·Migrate from Harvest to Kimai

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

• 88
  Instead of Harvest6 of 6 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: expenses.Customers, projects, and activities. An activity is the timesheet task.Invoice files from billable time, including PDF and DOCX. Card checkout is not the core invoice.Not in the free core. The store lists the expense plugin at €99 a year excl. VAT. Checked 9 November 2026.Timesheets export to CSV, XLSX, PDF, and HTML.

Related alternatives

Time tracking alternatives

• solidtime: Open-source time tracking. Invoicing is a paid plan.
• Invoice Ninja: Invoicing under the Elastic License.

Free apps in this group

• Actual Budget: Envelope budgeting on a file you own.
• Akaunting: Accounting under the Business Source License.
• Crater: An open-source invoice app. Time tracking was not shipped.
• Dolibarr: ERP and invoicing for a small company.
• ERPNext: Accounting, inventory, and CRM on Frappe.
• Firefly III: A money book you run yourself.
• GnuCash: Desktop double-entry bookkeeping.
• HomeBank: A desktop personal-finance app.
• Invoice Ninja: Invoicing under the Elastic License.
• KMyMoney: A KDE personal-finance ledger.
• Odoo Community: The LGPL community apps, not the enterprise modules.
• solidtime: Open-source time tracking. Invoicing is a paid plan.

Switch guides

• Migrate from Harvest to Kimai

Where we looked

• https://github.com/kimai/kimai
• https://www.kimai.org/en/pricing
• https://www.kimai.org/documentation/invoices.html
• https://www.kimai.org/store/keleo-importer-bundle.html
• https://www.kimai.org/documentation/plugin-import.html
• https://www.kimai.org/en/store/expenses-bundle.html