A service business has a specific problem: somebody did work, a client has to pay for it, and the two have to be connected by a record rather than a memory. Most tools solve the left half of that and leave the right half to a spreadsheet. This page compares six products on the whole chain — quote, delivery, time, invoice, receivable — with every price read from the vendor’s own page on 4 October 2026, and with a plain statement of who should walk away from each one.
NoxOrigin makes one of the products compared on this page. NoxOrigin is described here from our own shipped product and our own published pricing. Every other product is described only from that vendor’s public website, read on 4 October 2026. We have not run a trial of Zoho Projects, ClickUp, monday.com, Harvest or Toggl, so we make no claim about how any of them feel to use, and we quote no review scores, ratings, customer counts or benchmark percentages anywhere on this page. Where a vendor page did not give us a price, this page says “check vendor pricing” rather than estimating one.
Plan names, plan prices in the currency shown, the billing period each price was attached to, seat and user allowances, trial lengths, storage allowances, and the feature descriptions quoted in the entries. Each one came from a vendor page in the sources list below, with the exact URL named. Where a page redirected, we record the redirect rather than pretending the first URL was the source. One entry, Zoho Projects, has no price at all, because the page would not give us one.
The “what it is genuinely good at”, “real limitations”, “who should skip it” and “who should choose which” judgements. This is interpretation by a vendor with a commercial interest in one entry, and we label it as opinion rather than dressing it up as research. It is also the part a reader should argue with. One entry carries maturity disclosures about our own product that we would rather you read here than discover in a sales call.
One product we wanted to include is missing, and a fifth candidate is not here at all. Worklane was on our list and we could not reach it: both worklane.com and www.worklane.com failed to connect from our network on 4 October 2026, and no pricing path returned a page, so it is absent from the table and we assert nothing about it. Zoho Projects is in the table with no price because we read its page and it would not expose a plan figure to us. We did not substitute a remembered number for either. A short verified list is more useful than a long unverified one.
All figures last checked 4 October 2026, read from the vendor pages in the sources list. A cell marked “not verified” means the page we read did not state it, not that the product lacks it. Vendor pricing pages are marketing documents, and a quiet cell is very often just a quiet page. Ask each vendor to demonstrate the specific control on a real project rather than accepting a feature tick.
| Dimension | Zoho Projects | ClickUp | monday.com | Harvest | Toggl | NoxOrigin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published price, last checked 4 October 2026 | No figure was exposed in the page we could read, so this page quotes none. The page title states Free for 5 users. | Unlimited US$7 per user per month billed yearly, US$10 monthly. Business US$12 yearly, US$19 monthly. Enterprise by contact sales. | Basic US$12 per seat monthly, US$9 annually. Standard US$14 monthly, US$12 annually. Pro US$24 monthly, US$19 annually. Enterprise custom. | Teams from US$9 per seat per month, US$108 per seat billed annually, or US$11 monthly. Enterprise from US$14 per seat per month, US$168 annually, or US$17 monthly. | Starter US$9 per user per month annual, US$12 monthly. Premium US$16 annual, US$24 monthly. Enterprise by contact. | Platform only: Starter INR 800 per month, Growth INR 1,600, Agency INR 5,000. Capped at projects and contacts rather than seats. |
| Free tier, as the vendor states it | A free plan covering up to 5 users, with a free trial of any of the three paid plans and no credit card required. | Free Forever: unlimited tasks, members, spaces, folders, custom views, 60 MB storage, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management and 24/7 support. | Free at US$0, described as a free forever plan up to 2 seats. Paid plans start from 3 users. | Free forever for one seat and two projects, including time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and Mac and iOS apps. | Free at US$0, described as free for a limited number of users. | No free tier. The Growth plan has a 30-day trial; Starter and Agency have no trial period in our published plan list. |
| How the price scales | Three paid plans. The per-plan figures were not readable, so how the price scales with users or project count is check vendor pricing. | Per user per month, so the bill scales with headcount whether or not anyone touches the project. | Per seat. The page FAQ states anyone over 40 users should request a quote, and that monthly billing is not discounted. | Per seat, plus usage-based charges: the page states that as the team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed on what you use. | Per user per month. Annual billing is stated to save 33.3%, with a 4 months free offer shown. | Per workspace plan, capped at active projects and contacts: Starter 3 users, 10 projects, 1,000 contacts; Growth 10, 50, 10,000; Agency 25, 250, 50,000. Add-ons at INR 500 per month for five team members and INR 750 for a workspace. |
| Time tracking | Yes, and it is prominent: time logs and timesheets, multi-user and multi-project timesheets, plus timesheet multi-level approvals. | Yes. Native time tracking from Unlimited, with the comparison grid showing billable reports and timesheets, timesheet approvals and granular time estimates above that tier. | Yes, named as a time tracking feature. No invoice is generated from it on the pricing page. | Yes, and the product is built around it: time tracking is listed on the free tier, with team reporting and team capacity on Teams. | Yes, and the product is a time tracker first. Manual and real-time timers, focus mode, and calendar integrations. | No, and we are not going to imply otherwise. There is no timesheet record and no payroll module in NoxOrigin, so a business billing captured hours needs a timesheet product alongside this. |
| Client invoicing and quotes | Not on the page we read. The page links out to Zoho Billing, which is where invoicing is documented. | Not named on the pricing page. The word invoicing does not appear in it, so confirm the billing path with ClickUp.Quotes and invoices are named, with a stated allowance of 20 per month on Basic and 50 per month on Standard. Higher allowances were not read. | Invoicing is included on the free tier and on Teams, with integrations to Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Deel. | Invoicing is a named feature area in the site navigation and its full plan comparison has a Billing, Invoicing, Profitability and Revenue section, but the pricing page’s own tier lists emphasise billable rates and revenue reporting. Confirm invoice generation with Toggl. | Yes, from our own product: quotes with line items and tax raised against the client and the project, carried into the invoice, with GST-compliant invoices, payments and receivables against the same record. | |
| Planning and delivery | Gantt charts are named on the page, alongside tasks, bugs and phases, with timelogs and timesheets. | Unlimited Gantt charts, sprints and sprint management, resource management, goals and portfolio management, and unlimited Kanban boards on the free tier.Timeline and Gantt views are a headline feature, with formulas, dashboards, workload and sprint-style planning. | Deliberately thin. Harvest is a time and money product, not a planning product; the Enterprise plan adds unlimited custom reports rather than a Gantt chart. | Simple planning on Free: tasks, boards and task estimates. Starter adds timeline views, tags and milestones. Premium adds fixed fee projects and project dashboards. | Projects, tasks and delivery views exist, but we do not claim a Gantt chart or a resource planner, because we have not verified one. | |
| Profitability by client or project | Not verified from the page we read. | Not named on the pricing page. Enterprise lists custom roles, audit log and session management, not cost reporting. | Budget and cost management is named on the Pro tier in the page’s own feature mapping. | Yes, and this is a reason to buy it. Enterprise adds profitability reporting by client, project, task and team. | Yes, on Premium: labor cost and profitability reports, with the stated aim of monitoring capacity and optimising margins. | Yes, from our own product: project economics and profitability views, so you can see which clients and which engagements actually make money. |
| How a mid-project scope change is handled | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | A new quote raised against the same project, then invoiced, so the project carries the original quote and the additional one together. There is no change-request record, no milestone record and no deliverable record, and we would rather state that boundary than imply contract management. |
| Statutory filing | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | Not verified from the page we read. | None, and stated plainly: NoxOrigin prepares invoices and reports and exports them for your accountant, but it does not maintain a general ledger and does not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return. |
| Best case for it | A small delivery team that already lives in the Zoho ecosystem and wants Gantt plus timesheet approvals in the same place. | A business that wants one general work platform and will accept billing living elsewhere. | A non-delivery team that wants a flexible board, a timeline and automation, with a modest number of quotes and invoices. | A consultancy billing by the hour that wants invoicing to follow captured time automatically, on a free tier to start. | A business whose main question is whether the hours it sold turned into margin, especially on fixed-fee work. | An Indian service business where the client, the project and the money have to live in one record and be exportable to an accountant. |
Read the last two rows before the prices. On the scope change, five of six cells say not verified, and that is the honest answer rather than a defect in the products: a pricing page rarely documents how a contract variation is recorded. On statutory filing, the single verified cell is ours, and it is the one most likely to disappoint somebody. If filing GST returns is your reason for buying, none of these is the right category and an accounting package is.
Check vendor pricing We reached Zoho’s Zoho Projects pricing page on 4 October 2026, after a redirect, and read the page title “Zoho Projects Pricing plans : Free for 5 users”. It states a free plan covering up to 5 users, three paid plans, and a free trial of any of the three paid plans with no credit card required. This page quotes no Zoho Projects price, because the plan figures were not exposed in the page version we could read. Confirmed on the page: Gantt charts, time logs and timesheets, multi-user and multi-project timesheets, timesheet multi-level approvals, and 15 GB of storage per user with a 150 GB per organisation minimum. Get the price from Zoho before you compare it to anything here.
Timesheet discipline inside a project tool, which is more than most competitors document. Multi-level timesheet approvals is a real operational control rather than a feature label, and it is the kind of thing that matters when a delivery manager signs off billable hours before they reach an invoice. The 5-user free tier is also a genuinely usable starting point, and a trial of all three paid plans with no card is a fairer evaluation offer than most of this page.
No readable price, which on a page about choosing software is the most important number, and we will not approximate it. Invoicing is not documented on the page we read; the page links out to Zoho Billing, so budget for the possibility that billing is a second product with a second price. Storage is 15 GB per user with a 150 GB floor, which is fine for project records and will not hold your files. And Zoho Projects is a project tool, so a client relationship, a quote pipeline and a receivables view are not what it is built around.
Skip it if you need one product to hold the quote, the client, the project and the receivable together, because that is a different design goal. Skip it if you are outside the Zoho ecosystem already, because the argument for it is strongest when the rest of the business is already Zoho. And skip it if you need a published price before a conversation, because neither you nor we could get one today.
Source-verified price The page displayed Unlimited at US$7 per user per month billed yearly and US$10 per user per month billed monthly, Business at US$12 yearly and US$19 monthly, and Enterprise priced by contact sales. The page shows a Free Forever plan with unlimited tasks, members, spaces, folders, custom views, 60 MB storage, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view and 24/7 support.
Being the most capable general work platform on this page, and it is not close. Unlimited Gantt charts, sprints, resource management, goals and portfolio management, unlimited custom views, and on Business unlimited dashboards with advanced cards, portfolio workload management and unlimited message history. The Free Forever tier is more usable than most products’ paid tiers, which is a strange and genuinely valuable thing to say about a vendor with a commercial interest in moving you up.
Two that matter here. First, the word invoicing does not appear anywhere on the pricing page: you get native time tracking from Unlimited, and billable reports, timesheet approvals and granular time estimates above that, but the billing conversation is somewhere we did not read. Second, the cost is per user, so every person you add costs money whether or not they ever open a project. Add Brain AI at the per-user-per-month rate the page shows and the per-seat maths gets worse, not better.
Skip it if the whole point of the purchase is that the invoice and the delivery work are the same record, because ClickUp is a work platform with strong time tracking rather than a client billing system. Skip it if your delivery team is large but your billing contacts are few, because per-seat pricing charges you for the whole team. And skip it if a tool this configurable frightens you: the honest trade for that power is that somebody on your side has to decide how it is set up.
Source-verified price Read from the page’s own structured data for monday.com Work Management: Basic at US$12 per seat billed monthly and US$9 per seat billed annually, Standard at US$14 and US$12, Pro at US$24 and US$19, Enterprise as custom pricing. Free is stated as a free forever plan up to 2 seats. The page’s FAQ states that plans start from 3 users, that anyone over 40 users should request a quote, and that paying monthly is not discounted.
Being the friendliest way for a non-technical team to run a board, a timeline and an automation, and it does carry the billing job further than ClickUp does on its pricing page. Its own feature mapping names quotes and invoices with a stated allowance of 20 per month on Basic and 50 per month on Standard, and puts budget and cost management on the Pro tier. If your team will not adopt a dense work platform, adoption risk is a real reason to prefer it.
The document allowances are the number to check first: 20 quotes and invoices a month on Basic and 50 on Standard is a low ceiling for a business that invoices weekly, and the higher-tier allowances were not readable to us, so we will not guess them. The free tier is two seats while paid plans start at three, which is a step straight from a one-person free account to a three-person bill. Time tracking is named as a feature, not described, so we cannot tell you what it produces. And per-seat pricing means the 40-user quote threshold is worth understanding before your team grows.
Skip it if you invoice more than a handful of documents a month without first confirming your tier’s allowance, because 20 a month is not many. Skip it if you need deep time-to-money reporting, since a named time tracking feature is not the same as a timesheet that reconciles to an invoice. And skip it if you are a two-person shop, because you fall either side of the free-to-paid step.
Source-verified price The page displayed Teams from US$9 per seat per month, with US$108 per seat billed annually, or US$11 per seat per month billed monthly, and Enterprise from US$14 per seat per month, with US$168 per seat billed annually, or US$17 per seat per month billed monthly. Free is stated as forever for individual freelancers, with 1 seat, 2 projects, time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and Mac and iOS apps. Both paid tiers show a 30-day free trial, and the page shows a 20% annual discount.
The invoice following the clock, at a genuinely usable price, with a free tier that already includes invoicing. Teams adds team reporting, team capacity tracking and invoicing with integrations to Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Deel, so the money lands in a system your accountant already uses. Enterprise then adds the thing most tools leave you to build yourself: profitability reporting by client, project, task and team, plus unlimited custom reports, timesheet approvals and an activity log. If you bill by the hour and want to know whether the hours sold became margin, this is the most direct product on the page.
The seat price is not the whole bill, and the page says so: as the team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed on what you use, and some features may carry usage fees. That is a fair model and a hard one to forecast. Planning is the other gap — Harvest is not a Gantt or resource planner and does not pretend to be, so if scheduling is your problem you are buying a second tool. And project management is thin: projects exist as a container for time and money, not as a delivery system with dependencies and milestones.
Skip it if scheduling and delivery planning are the actual pain, because it will not solve that. Skip it if you want one predictable number per month rather than a base plus usage, because the variable component is real. And skip it if your billing needs an Indian GST invoice with a specific place-of-supply treatment configured, because we did not read Indian tax handling anywhere on the page and will not assume it.
Source-verified price The page displayed Starter at US$9 per user per month on annual billing and US$12 per user per month on monthly billing, and Premium at US$16 annual and US$24 monthly, both with a 30-day trial. Free is stated as US$0 for a limited number of users. Enterprise is priced by contact. The page states annual billing saves 33.3% and shows a 4 months free offer. Note for anyone following our link trail: the path toggl.com/plan-pricing returned a 404, so we record the URL that actually resolved.
Time, and the question of whether the time sold became money. Starter is built around what Toggl calls accurate billing, with billable rates and team-level productivity and revenue reports. Premium is the strongest entry on this page for a single commercial question: labor cost and profitability reports, fixed fee projects, and project dashboards showing time actuals against estimates broken down by task and member, plus timesheet approvals. For a consultancy that has been guessing whether a fixed-fee project made money, that is the report that answers it.
Invoicing is the open question. Toggl’s navigation names it as a feature area and its full plan comparison has a Billing, Invoicing, Profitability and Revenue section, but the pricing page’s own tier lists stop at billable rates and revenue reporting, so we will not claim it generates an invoice you can send until Toggl shows us. There is no client or CRM layer, no quote document and no receivables view, and it is a time tracker with planning attached rather than a client-facing system. Free is limited to an unspecified number of users, so check what that number is before you plan around it.
Skip it if the quote, the client relationship and the receivable have to live in the same system as the timesheet, because Toggl is built the other way round. Skip it if you need GST invoicing configured for an Indian business without a separate accounting package, because we did not read tax handling on the page. And skip it if you want planning depth beyond tasks, boards and timeline views.
Our own product, our own numbers NoxOrigin is a commercial operating record for Indian service businesses, so this entry is about the platform plan rather than a project tool with a timesheet attached. Our published plans are Starter at INR 800 per month for 3 users, 10 active projects and 1,000 contacts; Growth at INR 1,600 for 10 users, 50 projects and 10,000 contacts, with a 30-day trial; and Agency at INR 5,000 for 25 users across 3 workspaces, 250 projects and 50,000 contacts. Add-ons are published at INR 500 per month for five team members and INR 750 per month for an additional workspace.
Keeping the client, the project, the quote, the invoice and the payment in one attributable record, priced per workspace rather than per seat so adding a delivery person does not reprice the platform. A scope change is a new quote raised against the same project and then invoiced, so the project holds the original quote and the additional one together and the increase is explained by a record rather than a recollection. Invoices carry their tax treatment and export in a form your accountant can post without re-keying, and project economics and profitability views answer which clients and engagements actually make money.
These are the boundaries we would rather you read here than in a sales call. There is no timesheet record and no payroll module, so a business billing captured hours needs a time product alongside this — Harvest or Toggl on this page would be a fair pairing. There is no change-request record, milestone record, deliverable record, contract editor or e-signature. We do not maintain a general ledger and we do not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return; expense tracking lives in Nox-Billings as a separately scoped deployment and purchasing lives in the Commerce area. And we are a young product next to the five entries above, which have years of installed base behind them.
Skip it if you need time tracking, because we do not have it and three of the entries above do. Skip it if your need is Gantt charts, sprints or resource planning, because ClickUp and monday.com are better buys and we would rather say so. Skip it if you want statutory accounting, ledgers and filing, because that is an accounting package and an accountant. And skip it if a single person does all the quoting and invoicing, because a commercial operating record is then solving a problem you do not have.
A roundup that never says this is not finished. In four situations the correct answer is not one of the six products above, and in each case the cheapest option wins.
Harvest’s free tier gives one seat, two projects, time tracking, invoicing and expense tracking at no cost, and that is enough for two people and a fixed client list. If you can live inside the seat and project limits, a paid platform is a status symbol. Move up when a client number or a project number exceeds the limit, not before.
If the reason you are shopping is that a GST return or a TDS payment is due and you do not trust the numbers, none of these six is the right purchase. An accounting package with statutory filing is. NoxOrigin does not file anything, and we would be selling you the wrong thing if we implied otherwise. Name the problem as a filing problem and you will arrive at the right category in one step.
If every invoice is the same rate times the same hours, with no quote, no scope variation and no milestone, you are buying a clock. Toggl Starter or Harvest Teams is that, done well, and neither needs a client master file. Buying a platform with a CRM, a proposal engine and a receivables module to produce one repeating invoice is over-buying.
If nobody has ever lost a job because a total was typed into the wrong cell, and your clients accept your existing invoice, then the spreadsheet is a solved problem and this page is not for you. The failure mode we see is not that spreadsheets are wrong, it is that they cannot tell you which client owes what, by how long, without somebody reconstructing it from memory. If you can answer that in under a minute, you do not have the problem these products solve.
Most of these are legitimately right for the same business at different sizes, and none of them wins outright. These are the situations we think separate them, and we have said plainly where the better buy is not us.
Harvest, and its free tier is a real starting point rather than a demo: one seat, two projects, time tracking and invoicing at no cost, moving to Teams from US$9 per seat per month. Get the usage-based charge clarified before you commit, because the seat price is not the whole bill. See how project profitability works
Toggl Premium. Labor cost and profitability reports, fixed fee projects, and dashboards showing time actuals against estimates by task and member are the most direct answer on this page to whether a project overran. Confirm invoice generation with Toggl first, because the pricing page did not make that clear to us. Read the client profitability position
ClickUp, at US$7 per user per month on Unlimited billed yearly. It is the most capable product here and the free tier is unusually generous. Accept two things first: it prices per seat, and it did not name invoicing on the pricing page we read. See the ClickUp comparison
monday.com, from US$9 per seat per month billed annually on Basic. Adoption risk is a legitimate reason to prefer a simpler board over a more powerful one, and this page has no right to pretend otherwise. Check your quote and invoice allowance against your volume first: Basic is stated at 20 per month. See the monday.com comparison
Zoho Projects, with a free plan up to 5 users and a free trial of all three paid plans. We could not read a price, so get the number from Zoho before comparing. Budget for the possibility that client billing is a separate Zoho product with a separate price. See the agency management position
This is the narrow case NoxOrigin is built for, and it is worth saying plainly that three entries above are better buys for most people. Starter is INR 800 per month for 3 users, 10 projects and 1,000 contacts, and pricing is per workspace rather than per seat. A scope change is a new quote against the same project; we do not file your returns and we have no timesheet. Read the project billing product page
When the problem is money, not work. A client master that is not the same thing as your project list, quotes that have to survive a scope change, invoices whose tax treatment is settled, and receivables you can read by client and by age without asking anyone. In that situation the useful features are the unglamorous ones: a scope increase as a second quote on the same project, a payment recorded as an allocation against an invoice, and an outstanding value view rather than a report you have to run. How the quote-to-cash chain works.
Far more often than a vendor page would admit, and this page is the place to say it. We have no timesheet, so if you bill captured hours then Harvest or Toggl is the better buy and you should buy one of those. We are not a Gantt chart or a sprint board, so ClickUp and monday.com are better buys for planning. We do not maintain a general ledger and we do not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return, so if that is the requirement you want an accounting package. And we are younger and smaller than every other entry here, which is a real risk to weigh rather than a footnote. Read the project tools versus one platform comparison.
A note on the sources. We read all of these on 4 October 2026 and vendor pricing changes without notice. One entry here has no printed price because the page would not give us one, one candidate is absent because we could not connect to its site at all, and two vendors quote in US dollars to an Indian reader without explaining the tax treatment. Open the vendor links below and confirm each figure yourself before you commit to anything.
Three things, and if a product does none of them you are looking at a task list with an invoice bolted on. First, the bill has to be attached to a piece of delivery work rather than floating on its own, so that when a client asks why they were charged 40 hours, there is a record rather than a recollection. Second, when the scope changes mid-project, the increase has to be a document in the system, not a note in someone's head. Third, money has to be traceable back to the work that caused it, so you can answer which clients are profitable and which are just busy. Several products on this page handle time tracking beautifully and none of the three delivery questions at all.
Because Zoho's own pricing page would not give us one in the version we could read on 4 October 2026. The page title is 'Zoho Projects Pricing plans : Free for 5 users', and it names the free tier, three paid plans, and a trial, but the plan figures are not present in the page markup. We are not going to fill that gap with a remembered number. What we could verify is more useful than a guess anyway: the free plan covers up to 5 users, and the page names Gantt charts, time logs and timesheets, multi-user and multi-project timesheets, timesheet multi-level approvals, and 15 GB of storage per user with a 150 GB per organisation minimum. Get the price from Zoho before you compare it to anything here.
It is the opposite. Toggl, Harvest and ClickUp all sell time tracking as a core feature, and that is genuinely a point in their favour, because for a service business billing by the hour the clock is the product. Toggl's Starter plan is built around what it calls accurate billing, with billable rates and team-level revenue reports, and its Premium plan adds timesheet approvals and profitability reports. Harvest's Enterprise plan adds profitability reporting by client, project, task and team. We do not have a timesheet record and no payroll module, so if you bill captured hours you need one of these products or a timesheet product alongside whatever else you buy. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
Because in most of the situations below it is not. ClickUp, monday.com, Harvest and Toggl are far more established than we are, and if your requirement is task management, Gantt charts, sprints or time tracking, they are the better buy by a wide margin. Harvest will invoice from captured time on a free tier. Toggl will tell you whether a fixed-fee project overran. We are a commercial operating record for Indian service businesses, which is a narrower thing than a general work platform, and the useful comparison is not against each other but against what you are already paying two tools to do. Where NoxOrigin is genuinely the right buy we say so, and where it is the wrong one we say that too.
It depends on who logs the time, and the vendors do not agree on the unit. ClickUp, Toggl and monday.com all price per user or per seat, so your bill scales with your headcount whether or not anyone opens the project. Harvest also prices per seat but states that as your team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed based on what you use, so the seat price is not the whole bill. Zoho Projects and NoxOrigin price per workspace and project, which is why NoxOrigin's published plans cap active projects and contacts rather than seats. The question to ask each vendor is specific: if my delivery team halves but my client count does not, what does my invoice do?
Yes, and it is a good one. If you are a two or three person consultancy billing a handful of retained clients, free or near-free is a defensible answer: Harvest's free tier gives one seat, two projects, time tracking, invoicing and expense tracking for nothing, and monday.com's Free plan is free forever up to two seats. If a spreadsheet genuinely covers your quoting and you have never lost a job to it, keep the spreadsheet. And if your clients will not accept an invoice without your accountant's letterhead, none of these are the deciding factor, so let your accountant choose. Buying a project billing platform because a roundup convinced you to is the worst outcome this page could produce.
No, and we want to be unambiguous about our own position as well as everyone else's. NoxOrigin prepares invoices and reports and exports them so your accountant can post without re-keying, but it does not maintain a general ledger and it does not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return. Several products on this page do file returns as part of their accounting scope, and where their own pages say so we attribute it to them rather than to us. If the reason you are shopping is a filing deadline rather than a delivery problem, you are in the wrong category and an accounting package is the purchase.
Last verified: 4 October 2026. Every vendor figure on this page comes from one of the pages below, in the currency and billing period that page displayed. We did not convert any currency, add any tax, or quote a price any of these pages would not show us. Unreadable sources are listed as entries in their own right.
Reached and read, after a redirect from www.zoho.com/projects/pricing/ to www.zoho.com/projects/zohoprojects-pricing.html. Page title is 'Zoho Projects Pricing plans : Free for 5 users'. States a free plan covering up to 5 users, three paid plans, a free trial of any of the three paid plans with no credit card required, 15 GB storage per user with a 150 GB per organisation minimum, and names Gantt chart, time logs and timesheets, multi-user and multi-project timesheets, timesheet multi-level approvals, and a link to Zoho Billing. No plan price was exposed in the page markup we could read, so this page quotes none.
Open the sourceReached and read. Free Forever plan; Unlimited at US$7 per user per month billed yearly and US$10 per user per month billed monthly; Business at US$12 yearly and US$19 monthly; Enterprise priced by contact sales. Brain AI is shown as a separate per-user-per-month add-on. Business lists 5K automations per month, marked as $100 in value, and Enterprise 250K per month, marked as $750 in value. Free Forever lists unlimited tasks, members, spaces, folders, views and 60 MB storage. Unlimited lists native time tracking, unlimited Gantt charts, resource management and goals and portfolio management. Business lists unlimited dashboards with advanced cards, portfolio workload management and custom exporting; the comparison grid also shows timesheet approvals and granular time estimates above Unlimited. No invoicing feature is named anywhere on this page.
Open the sourceReached and read. The page's structured data for monday.com Work Management states: Free at USD 0, described as a free forever plan up to 2 seats; Basic at USD 12 per seat billed monthly and USD 9 per seat billed annually; Standard at USD 14 monthly and USD 12 annually; Pro at USD 24 monthly and USD 19 annually; Enterprise as custom pricing, contact sales. The page FAQ states that plans start from 3 users and that anyone over 40 users should request a quote, and that paying monthly is not discounted. The page's own feature mapping names quotes and invoices with a 20 per month allowance on Basic and 50 per month on Standard, a time tracking feature, and budget and cost management on the Pro tier.
Open the sourceReached and read. Free at USD 0 forever, described as built for individual freelancers, with 1 seat, 2 projects, time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and Mac and iOS apps. Teams from USD 9 per seat per month billed annually at USD 108 per seat, or USD 11 per seat per month billed monthly, with a 30-day free trial, unlimited seats, team reporting, team capacity tracking, invoicing, and integrations with Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Deel; the page states that additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed based on usage as the team grows. Enterprise from USD 14 per seat per month billed annually at USD 168 per seat, or USD 17 per seat per month billed monthly, adding unlimited custom reports, profitability reporting by client, project, task and team, timesheet approvals and an activity log. The page shows a 20% annual discount and states that some features may carry usage fees.
Open the sourceReached and read at toggl.com/pricing. The path toggl.com/plan-pricing returned a 404, so we record the URL that resolved. Free at USD 0 for a limited number of users. Starter at USD 9 per user per month on annual billing and USD 12 per user per month on monthly billing, with a 30-day trial, billable rates, timeline views, tags and milestones, and team-level productivity and revenue reports. Premium at USD 16 per user per month annual and USD 24 per user per month monthly, adding labor cost and profitability reports, fixed fee projects, project dashboards comparing time actuals to estimates, timesheet approvals, data accuracy features and single sign-on. Enterprise is priced by contact. The page states annual billing saves 33.3% and shows a 4 months free offer. Its site navigation names Invoicing as a feature area and its full plan comparison has a Billing, Invoicing, Profitability, and Revenue section, though the pricing page's own tier lists emphasise billable rates and revenue reporting rather than invoice generation.
Open the sourceUnreachable from our network. Both worklane.com and www.worklane.com failed to connect on port 443, with curl reporting a connection failure after roughly 200 to 400 ms, and no page was returned at any pricing path we tried. This is a transport failure rather than a 404, so we cannot even confirm which plans Worklane currently offers. We therefore publish no Worklane price, feature or positioning claim anywhere on this page, and we have left it out of the comparison table for the same reason. Worklane may well be a good fit; we simply could not verify it today.
Open the sourceOur own figures and our own product, linked so a reader can check them rather than take our summary on trust. Platform plans are Starter INR 800 per month, Growth INR 1,600 and Agency INR 5,000, with add-ons for five team members at INR 500 per month and an additional workspace at INR 750 per month. The product boundaries on this page, all stated by us: no change-request record, milestone record, deliverable record, contract editor, e-signature, timesheet record or payroll module; no statutory filing; a scope change is a new quote against the same project.
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