A Guide to Hubstaff Plans: How to Find the Best One for You

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Which Hubstaff plan is right for you?

Hubstaff has four pricing plans you can choose from: Starter, Grow, Team, and Enterprise.

Every plan works for time tracking and employee monitoring. From there, we just need to figure out what else you need for your business to operate smoothly.

To help streamline the decision-making process, this post will cover each Hubstaff plan. You’ll be able to see what features are included, how much it costs, and what kind of teams generally choose each option.

As you’ll see, Hubstaff is more than just time tracking software. We’re all about maximizing your productivity and empowering you to fit more work in your workday.

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Hubstaff Starter Plan

Price: $7.00/user/month ($5.83/user/month if paid annually). Starts at a minimum requirement of 2 users.

The Starter plan includes time tracking, timesheets, and activity levels, which makes it ideal for teams just starting with productivity monitoring.

Aside from the features already included in the Free version, the Basic plan comes with some extras that power your team’s productivity.

Most importantly, the Basic plan allows you to start adding team members to your organization. Track their time and productivity automatically so that you can all focus on your top priorities.

Starter plan features:

• Limited activity monitoring
• 500 screenshots/user/month
• Limited payments
• Client invoicing to take billing concerns off your plate
• 24/5 support
• Per-user settings

Time tracking for teams

Hubstaff’s intelligent activity tracking gives you a quick glance into how your team is doing at any time.

The optional screenshots are a powerful way to help diagnose potential problems. If a team member needs help, you have objective data to pinpoint exactly which tools and tasks are presenting problems.

Every Hubstaff user has access to time logs, screenshots, and productivity data collected while the software is turned on.

It’s even possible to delete screenshots and activity logs. For example, if a user accidentally logs into their online banking while the software is turned on, they can delete that time, thus deleting the screenshots that shouldn’t go to their manager.

Built to save time

Hubstaff Starter gives you the tools needed to understand how your team works to better benchmark of their productivity.

The employee payments feature makes payroll much easier. You can export payment information from Hubstaff and mark those hours as paid, saving you loads of time chasing down timesheets.

Per-user settings allow you to customize Hubstaff for each team member. Set separate bill and pay rates, turn screenshot capture on or off, and more.

Who uses Hubstaff Starter the most?

Hubstaff Starter is ideal for small companies, startups, or distributed teams new to time tracking.

We designed Hubstaff to work well for remote teams, but lots of traditional office-based teams use it, too.

If you need more integrations, more robust reporting, advanced payroll features, or GPS location tracking, you should look at the next plan on the list.

Easy efficiency: benefits of a Starter plan

The Starter plan is ideal for tracking your small team’s productivity and time. It’s flexible enough to work for all kinds of teams, even when you need different things for different people.

• Simplify time and productivity tracking
• Customize the experience for each team member, from timeout warnings to occasional screenshots
• Scale up or down as needed by easily adding or removing users

Hubstaff Grow Plan

Price: $9/user/month/ ($7.50/user/month if paid annually). Starts at a minimum requirement of 2 users.

It’s easier to be efficient in a small team. As your business grows, you need better tools to make sure that all areas of your business stay at maximum productivity.

Hubstaff’s Grow plan is designed to support large and growing organizations. We give you all the tools you need to monitor your team, save time, and work as efficiently as possible.

Grow features:

• All features included in the Starter plan
• 1 integration
• More screenshots and activities and URL tracked per user
• Project budgets so you won’t lose sleep over blown budgets
• Expense tracking to keep track of all non-time related costs to your organization
• Auto-discard idle time so you don’t pay for accidental hours

Built-in peace of mind for business owners and teams alike

As the size of your team increases, it becomes more difficult to monitor individual productivity.

Frequent check-ins waste everyone’s time. Managers might not realize there’s a productivity issue until tasks start falling behind. Some employees may even leave the timer running when they’re not working, either accidentally or intentionally.

The Grow plan addresses all of those concerns.

We built Hubstaff Grow to give you back hours of your day. It’s a complete solution to help you stay productive, no matter when and where your team works.

Skyrocket your productivity: benefits of a Grow plan

Hubstaff Grow automates the simplest business processes so you can spend that time getting more done. Save time on invoicing, payroll, expense tracking, and several other tedious tasks.

All of this adds up to more time that you can spend doing important work every day. Think about how much your time is worth.

In fact, you can experience the Grow plan for free:try it out during the 14-day free trial period and see how much time you get back every week.

Companies that benefit from Hubstaff Grow

Hubstaff’s Grow plan is best for productivity-minded companies that leverage technology to get more done. It scales up or down as needed, so it’s popular among teams of all sizes.

The Grow plan is the best option when you can’t afford to waste time. Use this plan to maximize efficiency and get tighter control over project budgets and expenses.

Hubstaff Team Plan

Price: $12 per user/month ($10 per user/month when billed annually). Requires a minimum of 2 users.

The Team plan builds on Grow by adding approval workflows, deeper automation, and advanced workforce analytics. It’s designed for teams that want tighter coordination across time tracking, scheduling, payments, and reporting without extra manual steps as they scale.

Team plan features:

• All features included in the Grow plan
• One-click timesheet approvals for managers
• Automatic idle time discarding
• Company-wide automatic tracking policies for managed devices
• Unlimited screenshots and unlimited app & URL tracking
• Scheduling and attendance tools, including daily and weekly limits
• Overtime tracking, work breaks, and attendance rules
• Time off and holiday tracking
• Team invoices and client billing tools
• Full payroll and payments workflow, with calculations based on approved hours and pay rates
• Unlimited integrations with third-party tools
• Client budgets and budget alerts
• Advanced workforce analytics (Insights included)

Streamlined timesheet approvals and payments

The Team plan introduces a complete approval flow. Team members track time, managers review and approve timesheets in one click, and payments can be processed automatically based on approved hours and set pay rates. This removes the need for manual calculations or exporting data between systems.

Built-in scheduling and attendance

With scheduling, attendance, overtime, and time off managed in the same system as time tracking, teams can keep expectations, availability, and actual work hours aligned. This is especially useful for teams working shifts, managing coverage, or operating across time zones.

Advanced workforce analytics for growing teams

The Team plan includes Hubstaff Insights, providing higher-level views into how time is used across the organization. Instead of focusing on individual moments, these analytics help teams understand patterns, trends, and work habits, supporting planning and workload balance as teams grow.

Which businesses benefit from the Team plan?

The Team plan works well for growing teams that need structure without micromanagement. This includes agencies, service businesses, distributed teams, and organizations managing multiple projects or clients. It’s a strong fit when approvals, scheduling, payroll automation, and deeper analytics become crucial parts of day-to-day operations.

Hubstaff Enterprise Plan

Price: $25/user/month (annual billing only).

The Hubstaff Enterprise plan has all of the features of the Team plan, but with extra perks for those who want the best of the best for their business.

Enterprise plan features:

• All features included in the Team plan
• VIP support
• Unlimited Job Sites
• Concierge account setup
• Higher limits on public APIs

Enjoy peace of mind with VIP support

Hubstaff gives high-quality, reliable support to all of our customers. However, the Enterprise plan comes with a little extra care from the Customer Support team.

We know that implementing new software isn’t always easy, and technical difficulties will probably arise when you move your enterprise organization to a new tool.

With VIP support, your tickets go to the top of the queue and you get super fast responses. Whether you want technical help or just have a question about a feature, you’re always first in line.

Enterprise-grade security and compliance

For larger organizations, compliance and access control often matter as much as features. The Enterprise plan adds security and governance capabilities designed to support internal policies, audits, and IT requirements.

These include a single sign-on feature, compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC-2 Type II guidelines, and SCIM user & group provisioning.

Concierge account setup

If you need help setting up your Enterprise account, a member of our Customer Success team can help with that. They will personally answer any of your questions, walk you through your new Hubstaff software, and help you get set up quickly and easily.

What businesses will benefit the most from an Enterprise plan?

Hubstaff’s Enterprise plan is a great choice for high-volume businesses that need lots of data. You’ll have quicker access to our servers and higher data transfer rates.

Large field service companies with a big mobile workforce use the Enterprise plan for the ability to set up unlimited job sites. The built-in productivity features help save a lot of time in the back office, too.

If you own a big business with lots of moving parts, or if you want to be an MVP customer with the fastest support, you should splurge on the Enterprise plan.

Check out our guide about enterprise workforce management.

Which Hubstaff plan should you choose?

The decision is based mostly on how much you want Hubstaff to streamline your business.

If you’re only looking for accurate time tracking for one, the Free plan is plenty. If you just want to reliably track time for 2+ team members, try Hubstaff Basic.

To save more time and really start to supercharge your productivity, Hubstaff Premium is worth the investment. The Premium plan will grow with you, and you can always scale back by removing users whenever you need to.

For the ultimate Hubstaff package, take advantage of all that the Enterprise plan has to offer.

You know what your business needs now and where you expect it to grow. Choose the plan that will best help you reach your next big milestone, whatever that may be.

For even more information, check out our full plan comparison.

This post was originally published in September 2018. It has been updated in July 2020 for accuracy.