Harvest is a time tracking and invoicing tool built for teams that bill by the hour. It’s simple to set up, but quite expensive compared to these Harvest alternatives.
Here’s more on all Harvest pricing plans, hidden costs, pros and cons, customer sentiment, and when Milient Resource Flow is a better fit for IT consulting and professional services teams running complex, multi-project environments.
Harvest publicly offers three pricing plans: Free, Teams, and Enterprise.
However, after Bending Spoons acquired the company in 2025, pricing is now per-seat and usage-based.
Here’s the public pricing:
Milient Resource Flow is a resource management platform and a cheaper alternative to Harvest's full cost (base rate plus add-ons) for teams that want more than just time tracking and invoicing.
Starting from $7/resource/month, you can use its:
Here’s how Mileint Resource Flow compares to Harvest:
What do you actually get at each tier? The plans differ more in reporting access and compliance controls than in core time tracking.
The Free plan offers one seat and two projects. It includes basic time tracking, expense tracking, invoicing, plus Mac and iOS apps.
There's no team reporting, no accounting integrations, and no payment processing, and the tier only works for a solo consultant evaluating the product.
Teams is the right starting point for most small-to-mid professional services teams where time tracking and invoicing are the whole job.
It unlocks unlimited seats, time tracking across web, desktop, and mobile, team capacity reporting, automated invoicing, and accounting integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, Stripe, and PayPal.
Enterprise is for operations leads and finance-aware managers who need the full picture.
Get profitability reporting by client, project, task, and team, plus timesheet approvals and a full activity log for compliance.
You also unlock custom reports and exports, SAML-based SSO, required notes on time entries, and dedicated onboarding support for teams of 50+.
Forecast is Harvest's separate scheduling add-on.
It covers visual team scheduling, capacity planning by day, week, or month, project timelines, and workload balancing.
It does not come included with any Harvest plan, so it's an additional cost on top of your per-seat rate.
While Harvest streamlines financial workflows, its pricing structure has significant pros and cons for businesses. Understanding where it delivers value and where it falls short is crucial for evaluating its true return on investment.
Harvest works well when time tracking and invoicing are the primary needs, and when team size is stable enough that usage fees don't scale unpredictably.
Harvest is suitable for a solo consultant or a two-to-five-person agency with a straightforward client roster.
The time-to-invoice workflow is fast, the integrations with QuickBooks and Xero reduce billing admin, and the Teams plan at $9/seat is accessible.
If your work is primarily time-and-materials billing, Harvest covers the job without complexity.
Great for creative teams that work inside Asana, Slack, or Basecamp, and need to track billable hours against those tasks without switching to a dedicated project management platform.
The Asana integration, in particular, means time can be tracked against existing tasks without rebuilding workflows.
That said, teams that need project financial tracking from offer to invoice need alternative software, such as Milient Resource Flow, for advanced resource + project management.
Harvest has native invoicing, payment collection via Stripe and PayPal, and a QuickBooks/Xero sync that covers most billing workflows without a separate accounts tool.
For teams that want the full time-to-payment cycle in one product, it's a genuine differentiator compared to tools like Toggl that require a separate billing solution.
Review sentiment on Capterra and G2 tells two different stories: pre-acquisition users are largely positive about usability; post-acquisition users are raising pricing concerns.
“This product is great for time tracking and invoicing. The interface is simple but still effective. Our team really appreciates how easy it is to use, and as an engineering consultant who tracks time to bill clients, that matters a lot—this is how we get paid, so it’s crucial that the team actually likes using it. We absolutely love the app, just not at $20k per year that the price increased to for a team of 20 users,” shares Timothy D on G2
On Reddit, u/steffunnyshere shares: “This Harvest App price increase is insane and switching is a nightmare.”
On Capterra, Deniz M says, “Harvest silently deducts an $80 application fee from invoice payments on free trial accounts — on top of Stripe's standard processing fees. On my first $2,000 invoice, I received only $1,861.70 with zero prior warning.”
Milient Resource Flow is built for IT consulting and professional services teams that have outgrown standalone time tracking.
It centralises capacity planning, resource scheduling, utilisation reporting, skills matching, and role-based permissions in one platform, with time tracking connected to that operational layer.
Some of the best features include:
With Milient Resource Flow's capacity planning, filter your entire team by utilisation percentage, available hours, seniority, or location.
Pair that with skills matching to surface the right person for each project in seconds, and save filtered views as templates for repeated use.
Resource Flow's reporting and templates cover utilisation, availability, and profitability in real time and are fully configurable and exportable.
You also get resource scheduling, project dependencies to keep timelines in sync, and fixed cost tracking to monitor budget performance across every project.
Have a look at Milient Resource Flow’s pricing:
Harvest tracks hours and sends invoices. That's the whole product.
If you need to upgrade, Milient Resource Flow covers capacity planning, resource scheduling, utilisation reporting, time tracking, PTO, TOIL, and holiday management in one platform for IT consulting and professional services teams.
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