Tempo Timesheets vs TimeTac (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 TimeTac if

• Fits if you track hours and leave for a team and want apps on phones and computers
• Works for teams that bill projects as well as hours

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want one price per head, as there is a base fee on Working Hours
• Tight if you need compliance, approvals or the API, which start on Standard
• Pricey if you want automated tracking, which sits on Project Time Advanced at $18
• Watch out: prices vary by visitor country, and hardware is priced separately

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.

TimeTac

• The Working Hours licence adds a base fee on top of per-user prices: $20 a month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly.
• The price table is built by page script and varies by visitor country; the dollar prices here are the page's US rates.
• The page invites teams of 20 or more users to request a personalised quote.
• Hardware such as terminals and premium support services are priced individually, not listed.

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.

TimeTac

Several ways to clock in

Browser, mobile apps with offline mode, NFC tags, terminals and a time tracking cube, with GPS and geofencing on higher plans.

Absence management

Leave requests with approval workflows, absence quotas, public holidays and holiday templates, with balances and entitlements from Standard.

Overtime and payroll data

Overtime rules, paid breaks, automatic break rules and compliance checks prepare hours for payroll on the Standard plan and above.

Project time and budgets

Track hours by client, project and task, compare against budgets and run billable-hours and client reports.

Automatic time tracking

A desktop app records apps and browser tabs in the background and suggests entries to confirm. The plan matrix lists it under Project Time Advanced.

Integrations and API

Integrations and an API are part of the Standard plans, with API users and bulk actions on Advanced working hours.

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.

TimeTac

• Working Hours: Essential$5

  per user / month, billed yearly ($6 billed monthly)

  Time tracking, absence management, reporting, multi-device access and exports. Plus a base fee of $20 a month ($25 billed monthly).

• Working Hours: Standard$9

  per user / month, billed yearly ($11 billed monthly)

  Adds compliance checks, approval workflows, overtime and payroll, geofencing, integrations and API. Base fee applies.

• Working Hours: Advanced$11

  per user / month, billed yearly ($13 billed monthly)

  Adds advanced absence rules and team workshops or pilot projects. Base fee applies.

• Project Time: Essential$10

  per user / month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly)

  Project time tracking, basic reporting and budget overview. No base fee when bought without Working Hours.

• Project Time: Standard$14

  per user / month, billed yearly ($17 billed monthly)

  Adds budgets and cost control, billable hours, client reports, team utilization, geofencing and API.

• Project Time: Advanced$18

  per user / month, billed yearly ($22 billed monthly)

  Adds automated time tracking, custom workflows, advanced BI and team workshops or pilot projects.

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.

TimeTac

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing is cheaper per user

  The pricing configurator defaults to yearly billing and lists a lower per-user rate for each plan than the monthly one, for example $5 against $6 on Working Hours Essential.