# Tempo Timesheets review (2026): is it worth $10 a month, billed yearly? > Time tracking and timesheet approvals built into Jira Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tempo Timesheets is an app that installs into Jira and records time against Jira issues. People log hours from a calendar, timesheet or list view, teams approve timesheets, and managers report on billable and non-billable work by account, team or project. The license size must match your Jira license. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** Tempo - **Website:** https://www.tempo.io/products/jira-time-tracking - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you don't use Jira, as it runs only inside it. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Tempo Timesheets is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial offered; length not stated on the page. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | Read from https://www.tempo.io/pricing/jira-time-tracking on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tempo Timesheets before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing option** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://www.tempo.io/pricing/jira-time-tracking ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Teams that already run Jira and want time logged on issues - Finance teams that classify billable hours and CapEx or OpEx - Organizations that need approvals and audit-ready time records ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Tempo Timesheets logs time from inside Jira, with team approvals and reports. It only runs inside Jira, the licence follows your Jira user count, and approvals by project and revenue reports need other Tempo products. - **Value for money: A.** $10 a month for up to 10 users, which is $2 a head for five, under 60% of the cheaper quarter of time tracking at $2.70. It also needs a Jira licence. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A free trial is offered, but the page states neither its length nor whether a card is needed, and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Logging, team approvals, reports and workload schemes, but project approvals and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. An app to install and configure inside Jira, with accounts and work attributes to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web inside Jira Cloud or Data Center, with an API and 8 integrations on record; no desktop or phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tempo Timesheets's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among time tracking apps - Tempo Timesheets's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 25 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 60 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 4). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 46 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 30 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/time-tracking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A time tracker at its plainest is a start button, a stop button and a table of hours. You could make the core of Tempo Timesheets for yourself: time tracking, reports and calendar. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $120 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, reports and calendar: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Jira, Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Jira, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, GitHub, GitLab, JetBrains, VS Code, Slack **Tags:** Time tracking, Reports, Public API, Calendar ## Alternatives - [Everhour](https://toolgpa.com/tools/everhour): Time tracking that sits inside Asana, Jira, Linear and Trello. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/everhour-vs-tempo-timesheets) - [Clockify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clockify): Team time tracker and timesheets with a free plan for 5 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clockify-vs-tempo-timesheets) - [TMetric](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tmetric): Time tracking with billing, invoicing and team monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tempo-timesheets-vs-tmetric) - [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/harvest-vs-tempo-timesheets) - [actiTIME](https://toolgpa.com/tools/actitime): Timesheets with project budgets, billing and a self-hosted option. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/actitime-vs-tempo-timesheets) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.tempo.io/pricing/jira-time-tracking - https://www.tempo.io/products/jira-time-tracking Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/tempo-timesheets Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).