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Time Tracking for Billing Teams: Rize vs Timely vs Harvest vs Toggl

Four tools, four different answers to the same billing workflow. Harvest and Toggl Track depend on people running timers. Timely records activity but leaves drafts for daily approval. Rize captures, categorizes, and finalizes billable hours itself. Compare invoicing, admin controls, compliance, and price at team scale.

A billing team's time tracker has one job: put every billable hour on the invoice without a person reconstructing the day. Harvest and Toggl Track are timer-first, so the invoice is only as complete as the timers people remembered to run; both add mature invoicing (Harvest) or a free tier and integrations (Toggl) on top. Timely captures activity automatically but leaves it as drafts that each person approves daily, and it pairs that with ISO 27001, SSO, and the lowest per-seat price above five people. Rize captures automatically, categorizes by client and project, and finalizes the entry itself, then builds the invoice from that time and reports profitability per client. Rize is the fit when accurate finalized hours matter more than the seat price. Timely is the fit when compliance certifications and SSO are procurement gates. Harvest is the fit when expense tracking and card payments on invoices matter more than automatic capture. Toggl is the fit when the budget is zero and the team will keep timers running.

Key differences

Rize vs Timely, Harvest, and Toggl Track

Rize beats Timely, Harvest, and Toggl Track on capture method, invoicing, admin and approvals, compliance and sso, team price at 10 seats (annual), what the price includes — the core reasons teams switch from manual time tracking to automatic, AI-categorized billable hours.

Capture method

Automatic capture on macOS and Windows, categorized and finalized by AI with no timers or approvals

Timely captures automatically but drafts need daily approval; Harvest and Toggl require a manual start/stop timer for every task

Comparison: Rize vs Timely, Harvest, and Toggl Track
Invoicing

Built in: invoice by client and date range from tracked time, with rates, taxes, payment terms, and payment tracking

Harvest: built-in invoicing with card payments and expenses. Timely: bills by budget or hours, syncs to QuickBooks Online. Toggl: no invoicing, exports to other tools

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Admin and approvals

Admins see approved entries, reports, budgets, and profitability; no per-entry approval queue to run

Timely and Harvest include timesheet approval workflows; Toggl adds approvals on paid team plans

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Compliance and SSO

SSO and SCIM on Enterprise; SOC 2 Type II audit in progress

Timely: ISO 27001 certified, SSO on standard plans. Harvest and Toggl: SSO on their paid team tiers; check each vendor's security page for current audit reports

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Team price at 10 seats (annual)

$299.90/mo ($29.99/seat)

Timely Unlimited $220/mo; Harvest Teams about $90/mo plus usage fees; Toggl Starter about $90/mo before paid add-ons

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What the price includes

Automatic tracking, AI categorization, invoicing, profitability reports, AI answers, MCP server, focus analytics

Timely: Memory AI, planning, reports. Harvest: timers, invoicing, expenses. Toggl: timers, reports, integrations

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Feature comparison

How Rize stacks up

See how Rize compares to Timely, Harvest, and Toggl Track across the features that matter.

Timely
Harvest
Toggl Track
Rize
Automatic time capture
Entries finalized without daily approval
AI categorization by client and project
Drafts for review
Built-in invoicing
Expense tracking
Client and project profitability
Budgets only
Budgets and costs
Budgets only
SSO
Standard plans
Paid team tiers
Paid team tiers
Enterprise plan
Security certification
ISO 27001:2022
See vendor security page
See vendor security page
SOC 2 Type II in progress
MCP server / AI agent access
Free plan
1 seat, 2 projects
Up to 5 users
Free trial
Team price per seat (annual)
$9-22
$9 plus usage fees
From $9
$29.99

Frequently Asked Questions

Rize is the best fit when the priority is complete billable hours with no timesheet maintenance: it captures work automatically, categorizes it by client and project, finalizes the entry, and builds invoices from that time. Timely is the best fit when ISO 27001 and SSO are procurement requirements and the team accepts a daily approval step. Harvest is the best fit when invoicing with card payments and expense tracking matter more than automatic capture. Toggl Track is the best fit for a team with no budget that will keep timers running.

Rize and Timely capture activity automatically in the background. Harvest and Toggl Track rely on manual start/stop timers, with idle detection and reminders to reduce missed time. Of the two automatic tools, only Rize finalizes entries without a review step; Timely's Memory drafts wait in the AutoSheet until a person approves them each day.

Billed annually at 10 seats: Rize Team is $299.90/mo ($29.99 per seat, 2-seat minimum). Timely Unlimited is $220/mo ($22 per user). Harvest Teams is about $90/mo ($9 per seat) plus usage-based fees for extra invoices, projects, and clients. Toggl Starter is about $90/mo ($9 per user). Rize is the most expensive per seat and the only one that includes automatic categorization, invoicing, profitability reporting, and AI answers in one price; the others recover the difference only if every person keeps timers running or approves drafts every day.

Harvest has the most mature invoicing: built-in invoices, expenses, retainers, and card payments through Stripe and PayPal. Rize builds invoices from automatically tracked time by client and date range, with per-client rates, taxes, discounts, payment terms, and payment tracking, and exports PDFs for accounting software. Timely bills by budget or hours worked and syncs to QuickBooks Online. Toggl Track has no invoicing and exports reports to other tools. If the invoice needs to be complete, the source of the hours matters more than the invoice builder, which is where Rize's automatic capture pays off.

Timely and Harvest both include timesheet approval workflows and manager dashboards; Timely adds capacity planning and role-based permissions. Toggl Track adds timesheet approvals on paid team plans. Rize takes a different approach: entries are finalized automatically and admins see approved entries, budgets, and profitability rather than an approval queue. A team that wants managers to sign off on each timesheet will find that in Timely or Harvest. A team that wants to stop running an approval queue will find that in Rize.

Timely is ISO 27001:2022 certified with EU-hosted data and offers SSO through Okta and Azure AD on standard plans. Harvest and Toggl Track offer SSO on their paid team tiers and publish their security posture on their own sites. Rize has started its SOC 2 Type II engagement, offers SSO and SCIM provisioning on the Enterprise plan, and provides readiness documentation on request. Teams with a certification gate in procurement should confirm the current status with each vendor before purchase.

Rize meters AI chat, generated reports, and agent actions with monthly credits included in each plan, plus top-up packs. The automatic categorization, entry titles, and focus scoring that produce billable hours are not metered on any plan. None of the other three tools offer AI chat, generated reports, or an MCP server, so there is nothing to meter; Timely's Memory AI drafting is included in every plan.

Yes. Rize starts tracking on install with no data import. Clients and projects can be created in Rize and the AI categorizes time against them from day one; existing invoices stay in the previous tool. Most teams are fully onboarded within a week, and the Team plan includes dedicated onboarding.

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