Harvest pricing in 2026: seat prices and usage fees explained

This page is written by LockedHours, which competes with Harvest, so check anything that matters against the source. For your own price, Harvest's pricing page and your account's billing settings are the final word.

Harvest's plans and seat prices

Teams and Enterprise come with a 30-day free trial, and the pricing page says no credit card is required. When a trial ends, Harvest's help center says the checkout screen pre-selects Enterprise with annual billing, and you can change both before paying.

How usage charges work: Flex and Unlimited

The seat price isn't always the whole bill. According to Harvest's help center, each paid plan can be billed in one of two ways:

What counts as usage on Flex

• Active projects, active clients and active tasks: only those with time tracked in the period count.
• Invoicing.
• Archived, deleted or untouched items don't count, according to the same article.

Why a second bill can be higher than the first

Usage is charged from the previous period, so a first invoice usually covers seats only, and usage first appears at renewal. For new accounts, Harvest says usage charges begin at the second paid renewal. Its help center gives the example of a bill going from a seats-only $44 to $404 once usage is added. It's Harvest's example, not a typical bill: yours depends on your activity.

What each plan includes

The two paid plans also differ in features, which matters when you compare seat prices:

How to find what you'll actually pay

Your account shows the real figure, so start there. Harvest's help center describes these steps for Administrators:

1. Open Settings → Billing → My usage billing to see current usage and the breakdown of charges.
2. Open Compare subscription options → Simulate usage changes to model a different number of projects, clients, tasks or invoices.
3. Compare Flex with the fixed fee on Unlimited at your real activity, for a busy month as well as a quiet one.
4. Note your renewal date, so you have time to act on what you find.

Seat cost by team size

These figures multiply each published seat price by the team size. They are a floor for Harvest on Flex, because usage isn't included: only your account can tell you that part. To run your own numbers, use the renewal calculator.

The 2026 price increase: what has been reported

Press coverage in August 2026 described large increases for some customers at renewal. Reported cases: UK consultancy: about $130 to $2,110 a month; US customer, annual plan: about $233 to $1,917 a month. Those are individual accounts as reported by the BBC and read by us through Subscription Insider, not what every customer pays, and we haven't seen the invoices. Subscription Insider says Harvest hadn't publicly given a more detailed explanation at the time. Harvest's help center notes that accounts on older legacy plans have different pricing and features.

For context, Harvest's terms now name Bending Spoons Operations S.p.A. as the company you contract with. Subscription Insider dates the acquisition to July 2025.

Your options if the price no longer works

• Stay and manage usage. Often the least work, especially if you rely on Harvest's integrations or native apps.
• Change billing or plan. Unlimited swaps usage charges for a fixed fee. Teams costs less per seat than Enterprise, but leaves out profitability reporting and timesheet approval.
• Move to another tool. Worth it if predictable cost matters more than what you'd give up. Budget time for your history: see how to export your data from Harvest.

How LockedHours prices it

LockedHours costs $6 per seat per month, with every feature included and no usage fees. The price you subscribe at is locked in our terms for as long as your subscription stays active. It's a smaller product: there's no resource scheduling, no native apps and no accounting sync yet. See the side-by-side comparison, or read who it suits and who it doesn't.