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Rize vs Timely for Billing Teams: Pricing, Admin, and Enterprise Controls

Timely wins on per-seat price above five people, ISO 27001, and SSO on its standard plans. Rize wins on billable hours that arrive finalized with no daily approval habit to enforce, built-in invoicing, and profitability reporting. This page lays out the team-scale tradeoffs so a billing team can pick the right one.

Rize is the better fit for a billing team when the problem is capturing every billable hour without anyone maintaining a timesheet. Timely is the better fit when the buying criteria are lowest per-seat price above five people, ISO 27001 certification, and SSO on a standard plan. Both capture activity automatically. Timely leaves that activity as drafts in its AutoSheet that every person approves daily and a manager chases with a Missing hours filter; Rize categorizes and finalizes entries itself, so a team of 20 does not create 20 daily approval habits. Rize also builds invoices from tracked time, reports client and project profitability, and exposes tracked time to AI agents through an MCP server. Timely's Unlimited tier is cheaper per seat at 10 seats ($220/mo vs $299.90/mo), has SSO through Okta and Azure AD on its standard plans where Rize reserves SSO and SCIM for Enterprise, and holds ISO 27001 while Rize's SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress. Rize meters AI chat, reports, and agent actions with monthly credits; the automatic tracking and categorization a billing team depends on is not metered. If the deciding factor is the finalized hours on the invoice, pick Rize. If it is procurement checkboxes at the lowest seat price, pick Timely.

Key differences

Rize vs Timely

Rize beats Timely on billable hours workflow, team pricing (annual), admin and permissions, enterprise controls, invoicing, ai usage limits, platform coverage — the core reasons teams switch from manual time tracking to automatic, AI-categorized billable hours.

Billable hours workflow

Entries are categorized by client and project and finalized automatically; admins see approved entries, never raw activity

Memory drafts sit in the AutoSheet until each person assigns and approves them; managers chase gaps with a Missing hours filter

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Team pricing (annual)

$29.99/seat/mo, 2-seat minimum, 100-seat cap: $149.95/mo at 5 seats, $299.90/mo at 10

$9-22/user/mo across Starter, Premium, and Unlimited: $80/mo at 5 seats (Premium), $220/mo at 10 (Unlimited)

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Admin and permissions

Admin settings and permissions, team dashboards, budgets and forecasting, client and project profitability on every Team plan

Role-based permissions, People dashboard with overtime alerts, project budgets, and capacity planning

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Enterprise controls

SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom contracts, and SLA on the Enterprise plan; SOC 2 Type II audit in progress

SSO through Okta and Azure AD on standard plans; ISO 27001:2022 certified with EU-hosted data

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Invoicing

Built in: generate a PDF invoice from tracked time by client and date range, set rates, record payments

Invoices tab bills by budget or hours worked and syncs to QuickBooks Online

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AI usage limits

Background AI (categorization, entry titles, focus scoring) is unmetered; AI chat, reports, and agent actions use monthly credits with top-ups

Memory AI and AutoSheet drafting are included in every plan; no AI chat, reports, or MCP server to meter

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Platform coverage

Desktop apps for macOS and Windows plus a web dashboard; mobile app on Enterprise only

Desktop, web, mobile apps, and GPS tracking for field teams

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Feature comparison

How Rize stacks up

See how Rize compares to Timely across the features that matter.

Timely
Rize
Automatic time capture
Entries finalized without daily approval
Built-in invoicing from tracked time
Client and project profitability reports
Budgets and hours, no profitability
Admin permissions on the team plan
SSO on standard team plans
Enterprise plan only
SCIM provisioning
Enterprise plan only
Security certification
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 Type II in progress
Capacity forecasting and scheduling
Mobile app and GPS tracking
Mobile on Enterprise, no GPS
MCP server / AI agent access
Team price at 10 seats (annual)
$220/mo (Unlimited)
$299.90/mo

Frequently Asked Questions

Rize is better when the goal is complete billable hours with no daily timesheet maintenance. It categorizes each work session by client and project and finalizes the entry itself, then builds invoices from that time. Timely is better when procurement requires ISO 27001 certification or SSO on a standard plan, or when a team above five people needs the lowest per-seat price. Both capture activity automatically; the difference is whether a person approves drafts every day.

Rize Team is $29.99 per seat per month billed annually with a 2-seat minimum and a 100-seat cap: $149.95/mo at 5 seats, $299.90/mo at 10, and $1,499.50/mo at 50. Timely charges $9 to $22 per user per month billed annually across Starter, Premium, and Unlimited: about $80/mo at 5 seats on Premium, $220/mo at 10 on Unlimited, and $1,100/mo at 50 on Unlimited. Timely is cheaper per seat at every team size. Rize's price includes automatic categorization, invoicing, profitability reporting, and AI answers over tracked time, and it removes the daily approval work that Timely's per-seat price does not account for.

Timely has more granular role-based permissions, a People dashboard with overtime alerts, and capacity planning views. Rize's Team plan includes admin settings and permissions, team dashboards, budgeting and forecasting, and client and project profitability. Rize admins see approved time entries and reports, never raw activity, which is a privacy default rather than a missing feature. Teams that need fine-grained roles across many departments will find more in Timely. Teams that need to know which clients and projects are profitable will find more in Rize.

Yes, on the Enterprise plan. Rize Enterprise includes SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom contracts, an SLA, and a dedicated account manager. Rize Team plans use email and Google sign-in. Timely offers SSO through Okta and Azure AD on its standard plans without an enterprise contract. If SSO is required for a team under 20 seats, Timely reaches it at a lower price point.

Rize has started its SOC 2 Type II engagement covering Security, Availability, and Confidentiality. Security controls including access control, encryption, vulnerability management, and incident response are in place today, and readiness documentation is available from support@rize.io. Timely is ISO 27001:2022 certified with data hosted on EU-based AWS servers. If a formal certification is required before purchase, Timely has the completed audit today.

Rize meters AI chat, generated reports, planned sessions, and agent actions with monthly credits included in each plan, with top-up packs for heavy users. The background AI that a billing team depends on is not metered: automatic categorization, tag suggestions, time entry titles, focus scoring, and daily summaries run on every plan without consuming credits. Timely includes its Memory AI and AutoSheet drafting in every plan and does not offer AI chat, generated reports, or an MCP server.

For invoicing, yes. Rize generates a PDF invoice from tracked time by client and date range, supports per-client and per-project rates, taxes, discounts, and payment terms, and records payments against the invoice. Timely's Invoices tab bills by budget or hours worked and syncs to QuickBooks Online. For recurring custom client reports built from templates, Timely has more report customization. Rize ships a Client and Projects report and a Monthly Project Report that split hours into billed and unbilled, plus AI answers for ad hoc questions.

Rize keeps admin overhead flat as headcount grows because nobody approves drafts: a 20-person team has no more daily tracking work than a 2-person team. Timely's daily approval step multiplies with each hire, and a manager has to confirm everyone did it. Timely scales better on procurement criteria: it is cheaper per seat above five people, holds ISO 27001, and has SSO without an enterprise contract. Rize's Team plan caps at 100 seats; larger deployments move to Enterprise.

No. Rize tracks application and website activity on macOS and Windows desktops and syncs to a web dashboard; a mobile app is available on the Enterprise plan and there is no GPS tracking. Timely has mobile apps and GPS tracking for field teams. A billing team that works at desks is fully covered by Rize; a team that bills from job sites needs Timely or a GPS-based tool.

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