Tempo Timesheets vs TimeLog (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Tempo Timesheets if

• Fits if your team already lives in Jira and wants time logged there
• Works for admins who need team approvals and reports on Jira work

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you don't use Jira, as it runs only inside it
• Watch out: the licence must match your Jira user count, not the number who log time
• Watch out: project approvals and revenue reports are separate Tempo products
• Tight if you use Data Center, which has no calendar, IDE or AI suggestions
• Pricey if your team passes 10 users, as the flat $10 becomes about $5.99 a user

Pick TimeLog if

• Fits if you run a consultancy that wants hours, projects and invoices in one place
• Makes sense if you work in euros

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you are a small team, as the cheapest plan is €14 a user
• Tight if you stay on Starter, which has no integrations or API
• Watch out: prices are in euros and the page does not say whether they assume annual billing
• Watch out: Starter support is email only, through your TimeLog contact

Tempo Timesheets

• It runs only inside Jira, and the license must match your Jira user count, not the number of people who log time.
• Project-level approvals, revenue reports and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products.
• The calendar, IDE and AI suggestion features are not available on Data Center.
• Prices are for Jira Cloud and Data Center licenses bought through Atlassian Marketplace.

TimeLog

• Prices are shown in euros per user per month, and the page does not say whether they assume annual or monthly billing.
• Integrations and APIs are not on Starter; they begin on Growth.
• Starter has no salary administration and only email support for the designated TimeLog responsible.

Tempo Timesheets

Logging from where work happens

Log time from Jira issues, a calendar view, a timesheet view or a list view, with Cloud suggestions from calendars, IDEs and connected work systems.

Team-level approvals

Organize people into Tempo teams whose leads approve timesheets; once a period is approved, no more time can be logged or changed.

Accounts and work attributes

Group worklogs by customer or cost center, mark them billable or non-billable, and add custom fields such as overtime or travel.

Reports and exports

Logged-time reports by team, project, account or user, with export to CSV or XLS, PDF summaries and a Tempo API with webhooks.

Holiday and workload schemes

Define holidays and working-week lengths per country or office so expected hours are right for each team.

Financial and capacity add-ons

Project-level approvals and revenue reports need Financial Manager, and planned-versus-actual views need Capacity Planner, both sold separately.

TimeLog

Time and expense tracking

Log time on mobile, web and desktop, register expenses with receipts, record absences and flex, and route hours through approval.

Project management

Gantt charts, budgets by project, task and employee, and work breakdown structures that go up to five levels on higher plans.

Resource planning

A resource planner with a utilization heatmap, booking by competence and availability, kept in step with project plans and logged time.

Invoicing and finance

Price lists, multi-currency invoicing, automated invoice suggestions and accounting periods that lock data for revenue follow-up.

Integrations and API

Connects to more than 25 finance and salary systems, with single sign-on through Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID.

Tempo Timesheets

• Cloud, 1 to 10 users$10

  per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly)

  Flat fee for the whole Jira site. Yearly billing is listed at $100 for 1 to 10 users.

• Cloud, 11 to 100 users$5.99

  per user / month, billed monthly, for 11 to 100 users

  Price falls with size, to $4.21 at 101 to 250 users. Yearly: $898.50 for 11 to 15 users, $5,990 for 51 to 100.

• Data Center$2,622

  per year for up to 50 users

  Self-managed Jira. $5,245.15 a year for 51 to 100 users; calendar, IDE and AI suggestions are Cloud only.

TimeLog

• Starter€14

  per user / month, billing basis not stated

  Time and expense logging, project management features, invoicing for time spent and fixed rates. No integrations or APIs.

• Growth€34.50

  per user / month, billing basis not stated

  Adds project and organization management, salary administration, travel logging, multi-currency invoicing, integrations and APIs.

• Professional€53

  per user / month, billing basis not stated

  Adds income logging, retainers and prepaid deals, KPI reporting, automated invoicing and advanced salary administration.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds licensed invoicing support, advanced contract management and rate indexing. Sold through sales.

Tempo Timesheets

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing option

  The pricing page offers a yearly billing toggle: $100 a year for 1 to 10 users on Cloud, against $10 a month on monthly billing.

TimeLog

• Nonprofit

  Discounted rate for NGOs

  TimeLog's solutions menu describes a discounted rate for NGOs and non-profit organisations.