A Harvest alternative whose free plan you can actually join

Harvest is time-tracking software with invoicing attached, and for a team that bills by the hour and wants timesheets, budgets and invoices in one place, that combination is the appeal. This page is about the one thing its pricing page doesn't lead with: you cannot sign up for the free plan directly.

BillingHub — 25 invoices USD 25.00 once, never expires
What Harvest costs Free (1 seat, 2 projects), or from $11 a seat a month for Teams — Harvest's own FAQ says the free plan is reached during the upgrade process, not at signup.
Clients Not capped by client — Free caps 1 seat and 2 projects instead
Multi-currency Per client, not per invoice — Harvest performs no conversion between currencies

Prices checked August 2026 — source , source

See what leaving Harvest would cost you at your own volume — try the invoice cost calculator.

What Harvest is good at

It's genuinely good time-tracking software with invoicing built on top — timesheets, project budgets and team reporting sit behind the same login as the invoice. For a team that bills hourly and wants all of that together, Harvest is a mature, capable choice, and this page isn't arguing otherwise.

Where it stops

  • Harvest's own FAQ says you reach the free plan during the upgrade process — it is not something a new visitor picks at signup the way it is elsewhere.
  • The route there is a 30-day trial first, and Harvest's own FAQ says a trial that hasn't been upgraded by then will be automatically deactivated — the default outcome of doing nothing is losing the account, not landing on free.
  • It is a time-tracking tool that also invoices, not an invoicing tool — a business that only wants to send invoices sets up timesheets and project budgets it may never open.

What we do differently

BillingHub has no trial to fall out of. The free generator hands you a finished invoice with no account and no clock running, and the paid side is a credit you buy when you're ready rather than a plan you get deactivated out of.

When to choose Harvest over us

If your business already tracks time and wants invoices generated from those hours, Harvest is the more complete tool and worth the trial. We only do invoices, estimates and quotes — we track nothing about how the work was done.

Make an invoice without an account

Common questions

Do I need to start a trial to use BillingHub for free?
No. The invoice generator has no trial and no account to fall out of — it is free the first time you open it, not after 30 days.