Miru vs Clockify
Free doesn't mean good enough. Clockify's free tier gets you in the door, then charges $3.99-$7.99/user for everything useful. Here's the honest comparison.
Quick verdict
Clockify markets itself as "free forever." And technically, it is — if you only need a basic timer. But invoicing? Standard plan. Expenses? Pro plan. Reports older than a month? Basic plan. At $7.99/user/month, a 20-person team pays $1,918/year for Clockify Pro. The same team on Miru pays $240/year — and that buys every feature, including CLI and the full source code. Or self-host it for free.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Feature | Miru | Clockify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1/member/mo — all features | Free (up to 5 users) / $3.99-7.99/user/mo (Basic-Pro) |
| Time Tracking | Timer + manual + CLI | Timer + manual (good) |
| Invoicing | ✓ Full invoicing + payments | ✗ Free / ✓ Standard ($5.49) & up, no online payments |
| Expenses | ✓ | ✗ (not on free plan) |
| Reports | 5 reports + 4 analytics views, all included | 3 report types; Free capped at a 1-month range |
| Team Management | 5 roles + leave tracking | Basic team features |
| CLI | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open Source | ✓ MIT licensed | ✗ |
| Self-Hostable | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dark Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| API Access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stripe Payments | ✓ Clients pay from invoice | ✗ |
Key differentiators
One price, everything
Clockify's free plan strips out invoicing, expenses, and reports longer than a month — then charges to get them back: reports on Basic ($3.99), invoicing on Standard ($5.49), expenses on Pro ($7.99). Miru is $1/member/month and includes everything. No feature gates. No gotchas.
Open source
Miru is MIT licensed and on GitHub. Self-host it. Audit it. Own your data completely. Clockify is a closed-source SaaS product — your data lives on their terms.
CLI-first workflows
Track time from your terminal. Generate invoices from a script. Automate billing with cron jobs. Clockify has desktop and mobile apps but no first-party CLI — no terminal workflows, no scripting.
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