ClockShark pricing (2026): cost by crew size and the 3 year term

What it costs now, and what went up

There are two paid plans and no free one. As of September 2026, Standard is $42 a month plus $9.50 per user per month. Pro is $63 a month plus $11.50 per user per month. Billing is invoiced in US dollars.

Those are new numbers. Comparison sites still carry $40 base plus $9 per user on Standard and $60 plus $11 on Pro. The live pricing page no longer says that. Both plans went up about five percent. On a ten person crew that is roughly $7 a month more than the figure you will see quoted elsewhere. It is not a big jump. It matters because a page that gets the price wrong will get the three year total wrong by a lot more.

The trial is 14 days and turns on every Pro feature. Whatever you set up during it carries over if you buy, so you can put a real week of work through it instead of a demo.

One part of the billing is better than most. You can turn users on and off, and the bill is pro-rated, so you only pay for the days a person was active. For a crew that doubles in July and shrinks in December, that is worth money. A lot of per-user tools charge you for a seat whether the person worked or not.

Keep your expectations narrow. This is a time clock and a schedule, not a platform. One owner listing software for small crews summed it up in a line: "If time tracking and scheduling are your main pain points, this one’s lightweight and simple." That is the right expectation to buy on.

The three year term on every plan

The pricing page carries one line that most owners never scroll far enough to see: a contract term of three years applies to all pricing plans. We are putting it near the top because it is the biggest thing to weigh here, bigger than any feature.

Think about what three years covers. A five person crew on Standard is $89.50 a month, which is $1,074 a year and about $3,222 across the term. Ten people is $137 a month, $1,644 a year, and about $4,932 over three years. Those are not frightening numbers. They are numbers you should agree to on purpose, not discover in year two.

The term also changes how you should read every price below. A saving of $20 a month against a rival only counts if you are still trading, still that size, and still happy in year three. Plenty of trade businesses change shape faster than that.

So ask four questions before you sign. What happens if the crew shrinks over winter? What does it cost to leave early? Is the term shorter if you pay a year up front? And is it negotiable at all? Vendors often bend on this. A term that is waived quietly for one shop and enforced on another is worth pinning down in an email you keep.

What each crew size pays a head

A base fee plus a per-user fee always works the same way. The fixed part is spread over more people as you grow, so the cost per head falls. Here is that on Standard, as of September 2026.

Three users is $42 plus $28.50, so $70.50 a month. That is about $23.50 a head. Five users is $42 plus $47.50, so $89.50 a month, or about $17.90 each. Ten users is $42 plus $95, so $137 a month, which is about $13.70 a head. Twenty users is $42 plus $190, so $232 a month, or about $11.60 each.

Read those four numbers again. A twenty person crew pays less than half as much per person as a three person crew. This is the opposite of what most owners expect from per-user pricing, and it is the single most useful thing to know before you buy. A small shop is paying a $42 base fee that buys it nothing extra. A bigger shop barely notices it.

Contractors sort it the same way. One contractor weighing the field for other people landed on size as the deciding factor: "If you are a smaller contractor or more service based, ClockShark would do the trick. Really just depends on number of hourly employees you are tracking time for."

Now set that against the term. The per-head saving at scale is real, but it only arrives if you stay. A crew of four signing up hoping to be a crew of twelve is betting the growth shows up inside the three years. If it does, the price gets better every year. If it does not, you are paying small-crew rates for the whole run.

Do you need Pro?

Standard is not a stripped tier, which is unusual at this end of the market. It covers time and attendance tracking, GPS tracking, job and task tracking, drag-and-drop scheduling, manager roles and approvals, draft schedules, and the connections to other software. It also includes Spanish language support built in, not bolted on. On a lot of job sites that decides whether the crew uses the app or works around it.

Pro adds four things: paid time off, controls across several departments or offices, advanced job costing controls, and shift wrap-up and compliance forms.

Price the gap before you assume you want it. Five people on Pro is $63 plus $57.50, so $120.50 a month against $89.50 on Standard. That is $31 a month more, or $372 a year. Ten people on Pro is $178 against $137, a gap of $41 a month.

The honest test is whether you track paid time off in the software or in a spreadsheet, and whether you run more than one office. If the answer to both is no, Standard does the job and the extra $372 a year buys you nothing. Compliance forms at shift end are the one Pro feature worth buying on their own. Even then, only if your crew keeps skipping a safety or sign-off step.

ClockShark or QuickBooks Time?

QuickBooks Time is the closest rival we cover, so run both numbers. Its Premium plan is $20 a month plus $10 per user. Elite is $40 plus $12. Both are as of August 2026, and both are month to month with no minimum term. At five people that is about $70 on Premium against $89.50 on ClockShark Standard.

The catch is what sits underneath. QuickBooks Time needs a QuickBooks Online subscription on top, which is a second bill. So the $70 is not the whole cost unless you are paying for QuickBooks Online anyway. If your books already live there, QuickBooks Time is cheaper and you can walk away any month you like. Our QuickBooks Time review goes through where its GPS and job costing stop.

ClockShark is the pick for a crew that does not want to live inside QuickBooks. It stands on its own, and the Spanish support is in the box. Job costing by customer, job and task comes on the cheaper plan rather than the dear one. Our ClockShark review covers how the crew clock and GPS behave day to day.

Who should skip it. A one or two person outfit should not pay a $42 base fee to clock two people, because per head that is the worst deal on this page. A shop where everyone clocks in at one address and nobody costs a job is buying job costing it will never open. And anyone who cannot sign a three year commitment this year should take that seriously instead of talking themselves round. Rivals are month to month, and being able to leave has a value that never shows up on a feature list.

One last thing to weigh. Some owners on it are content, and some are shopping. A construction customer opened a thread on exactly that: "We use Clockshark but are looking at other options. What other apps or solutions are out there?" Another shop trialling it beside a rival leaned the other way: "We're trailling out jibble.io and clockshark.com, both seem pretty good and we're veering towards Jibble." Neither is a damning verdict on the software. Both are a reason to spend the 14 days properly, because on this contract the trial is the last cheap decision you get to make.

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