# Ever Gauzy review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source ERP, CRM, HRM and project platform with time tracking Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Ever Gauzy is an open-source business management platform that covers project and task management, time tracking with activity monitoring, invoicing, client and employee records and reporting. It can be run on your own servers from the public source code or used as a hosted cloud service, with timer apps for desktop. - **Category:** Project Management - **Made by:** Ever Co. LTD - **Website:** https://gauzy.co - **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the site says Gauzy is built in public, so some parts may be incomplete or broken. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Ever Gauzy has a free plan, and paid plans start at $34 per month for up to 25 members, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter plan: free, limited to 1 company and 15 members, excluding transaction and additional member fees. - **Free trial:** 90-day free trial on paid cloud plans. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $0 | Free for 1 company and 15 members, with no card required. Transaction and extra-member fees still apply. | | Business | $34 per month for up to 25 members, billed annually | Single company, 25 members included, $5 a month for each extra member. Shown as 30% off; $408 billed yearly. | | Unlimited | $349 per month, billed annually | Unlimited members for one company, or unlimited companies with 50 members and $10 a month per extra member. $4,188 yearly. | | Business Lifetime (self-hosted) | $99 one-time, for 1 company and 25 members | One payment for a self-hosted license without AGPL restrictions; extra members cost $5 a month each. | Read from https://gauzy.co/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ever Gauzy before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Business Edition lifetime license for $99** (Lifetime license): A limited-time one-time payment covers one self-hosted company with 25 members, without AGPL v3 restrictions; extra members are $5 a month each. Source: https://gauzy.co/pricing ## Key features - **Time tracking and timesheets:** Staff start and stop a timer from desktop apps, and managers see timesheets, activity levels and statistics per project and task. - **Employee monitoring:** The timer app can record activity and screenshots for employees, with dashboards for schedules, appointments and filters. - **Task and project management:** Tasks, projects and teams are managed alongside organization records, with project budgeting and team scheduling. - **Invoicing and sales:** Invoices and client records sit in the same platform, together with employee records and an online payroll feature. - **Self-hosted or cloud:** The Community Edition source code is on GitHub, and a self-hosted server runs with SQLite or an external PostgreSQL database. - **Multi-company setups:** The Unlimited plan can cover several companies in one installation, with 50 members included and extra members charged separately. ## Good for - Agencies and freelancers that want time tracking and invoicing in one place - Teams that want an open-source system they can host themselves - Companies tracking employee activity as well as projects ## Worth knowing - The site says Gauzy is built in public, so some parts may be incomplete or broken. - Starter's free price excludes transaction fees and fees for additional members. - The pricing page shows annual figures only; no monthly-billing price is displayed. - Employee monitoring with screenshots may raise privacy and legal questions for some teams. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Ever Gauzy is an open-source platform covering time tracking, projects, invoicing, CRM and HR, in the cloud or self-hosted. The site says it is built in public so some parts may be incomplete or broken, and it includes screenshot-based employee monitoring. - **Value for money: A.** Business is $34 a month for 25 members, $1.36 a member, under the category's cheapest quarter. There is also a $99 one-time self-hosted license. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Starter is free for 1 company and 15 members with no card, but transaction and extra-member fees still apply. Paid cloud plans have a 90-day trial. - **Features: C.** Time tracking, tasks, invoicing, sales and multi-company setups. The site says some parts may be incomplete or broken. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is a big platform, and self-hosting means doing the setup yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web plus desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, with no phone apps or integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ever Co. LTD's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among project management tools - Ever Gauzy's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 98 of the 149 other project management tools we grade, and level with 21. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 135 of 149) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $34 a month, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 109 of the 121 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 103 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/project-management ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Ever Gauzy you could make: tasks, time tracking, invoicing, reports and employee records. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $408 a year. Ever Gauzy is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could make: Tasks, time tracking, invoicing, reports and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Tasks, Time tracking, Invoicing, Reports, Employee records ## Alternatives - [OpenProject](https://toolgpa.com/tools/openproject): Open-source project management for classic and agile teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ever-gauzy-vs-openproject) - [Worklenz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/worklenz): Project and time tracking for agencies, with a self-host option. 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