Harvest vs Paymo
No leader: the top candidate Harvest has only 0.26 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time tracking. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Harvest
Harvest enables teams to track billable time, automatically generate and send invoices, analyze project profitability, and manage team capacity with integrated reporting and tool connections.
Paymo
A web-based project management system that helps businesses organize and track work throughout the project lifecycle, with programmatic access via REST API supporting JSON and XML formats.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Harvest
Free 30-day trial. Paid plans starting from approximately $19–24/user/month
Paymo
From free to $16.9/mo with 15-day free trial. Up to 40% discount with annual billing.
- FreeFree
- Unlimited Time Tracking
- Unlimited Invoices
- Unlimited Tasks
- Task List View
- Desktop & Mobile Apps
- +1 more
- Solo$5.9/mo (first 3 months), then $9.9/mo
- Unlimited Time Tracking
- Unlimited Invoices
- Flat Rate Projects
- Retainer Projects (limited to 3)
- Task Kanban View
- +4 more
- Plus$10.9/user/mo (first 3 months), then $15.9/user/mo
- Everything in Solo
- Recurring Invoices
- Estimates & Expenses
- Integrations & API Access
- 50GB Storage
- Pro$16.9/mo (first 3 months), then $23.9/mo
- Everything in Plus
- Project Schedule Timeline
- Timesheet Approvals
- Automatic Ghost Bookings
- Employee Leave Management
- +3 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Stripe
- PayPal
Harvest
- Asana
- Trello
- Jira
- monday.com
Paymo
- LambdaTest
Harvest or Paymo: which one depends on you
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