Cost comparison
What a time clock actually costs for a small shop
Enter your headcount. These are the vendors’ own published list prices, checked 1 November 2026 — not our estimate of them.
Move the number and the table below updates.
| Product | How it charges | Per year | Per employee / month |
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List prices: Homebase Essentials $24/location/month billed annually ($288/yr, unlimited employees; free tier covers 1 location and up to 10 employees). When I Work $2.50/user/month single location. Deputy Lite $5.50/user/month. All Time Needs $49.99/yr for up to 20 employees, plus $19.99/yr for each additional block of 20. Prices change — check each vendor before you switch.
Where we are not the right answer
Ten employees or fewer, one location: Homebase’s free tier genuinely costs nothing and does basic time tracking. If that is all you need, use it — we are not going to pretend otherwise.
You need payroll, hiring and HR paperwork: Homebase and Deputy bundle those. We do not process payroll. We clock people in, schedule the week, and put hours against jobs and machines.
Twenty or more on the floor, one shop: this is the case we built for, and the one where the annual difference gets large enough to notice.
Put the whole floor on one clock.
Free for 30 days, no card required. Then $49.99 a year, 20 employees included.
Start free for 30 days