Tally Whacker

This is a timesheet bill.

One project. One task. The more you invoice, the more they charge: $104 a month for two people to track their time.

A Harvest billing screen headed 'What's included in your next bill'. The plan is Enterprise, billed monthly, at $17.50 a seat struck through to $13.82, for 2 seats. Two usage packages are offered: Unlimited at $199 a month, and Flex, which is selected, at $104.00 struck through to $82.16 with a 21% discount. Flex's last 30 days of usage is listed per category, with the amount invoiced redacted.
My own Harvest account, 5 September 2026. Nothing is cropped. The one redacted row is the amount invoiced, because my revenue isn't the point. The struck-through prices are a temporary retention discount — 21% off both the seat rate and the usage charge — which is what you get offered when you start looking at the exit.

Look at what drives the $104. Projects, tasks and clients each carry a free allowance, and this account is inside all three. The entire charge comes from the last line: the amount invoiced. Harvest is not charging for resources used. It is charging a percentage of the business you did.

How the pricing works

Harvest bills a per-seat rate and then bills usage on top of it. The usage package is called Flex, and it meters five things at once: active projects, tasks, clients, invoices sent, and the amount you invoice. The first four carry small free allowances. The fifth does not.

The way out of Flex is Unlimited, at $199 a month on top of your seats. For two people that is about $221 a month to stop your bill from moving. Predictable pricing is the paid upgrade. Tally Whacker is $30.

What the invoiced-amount band costs

Under $3,000 invoiced$0measured
$3,000 – $20,000$15measured
$20,000 – $200,000?not published
One point inside that band, from my own bill$104measured
$200,000 and above$650measured

The measured rows are from my own account. The invoiced figure behind the $104 point is the redacted row above; the calculator uses it without printing it. Harvest does not publish the bands between the measured points, which is why every "Harvest alternatives" post hand-waves at usage fees. The calculator below interpolates them and marks the interpolation rather than pretending to know.

The story is the row you can't see. Somewhere past $20,000 a month in billings, the charge goes from $15 to $104 — about sevenfold, for doing more business.

What it would cost you

Harvest$137/ mo
Tally Whacker$45/ mo

Tally Whacker would save you $1,104 a year.

Our Harvest figure is an estimate — they don't publish multiplier rates.Check it against your bill.

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Harvest costs increase as your invoicing grows.The flat line is Tally Whacker.

Harvest is offering accounts a loyalty discount of 21% off if they stay. Ask what your rate is when the promo ends.

Where these numbers come from

Harvest's usage charge is measured from real world experience: free under $3k a month invoiced, $15 from $3k to $20k, $650 at $200k and up, and $104 at one point in between, read off my own bill. That figure is the redacted row on the Harvest page; the calculator uses it without printing it. Between the measured points we interpolate, and this page says so when it does. The per seat rate is Harvest's cheaper Teams plan at $11. List prices throughout, not the temporary loyalty discount.

What you'd be moving to

$15 per person per month. One plan, nothing metered, no tier above it. Timesheets, dated bill rates, invoices and PDFs, recurring schedules, automatic overdue reminders, partial payments, AR aging, an audit log, two-factor. The whole list is on the homepage.

Whatever you decide, get your data out of Harvest before you cancel. Their free tier is one seat and two projects, and downgrading can lock you out of your own invoice history.