solidtime
by SolidTime · Open-source time tracking with invoicing and project budgets
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Overview
solidtime is an open-source time tracker for freelancers and teams. Time is logged through a timer, calendar or spreadsheet-style timesheet, then filtered and grouped by member, project, client, task or tag into reports that export to PDF, CSV or Excel. Projects carry hourly rates and budgets, and billable hours become PDF or EN 16931 e-invoices.
- Best for
- Freelancers and agencies tracking billable project time and invoicing clients, cloud or self-hosted.
- Pricing
- Solo plan is free for one user; Professional is €8 per user per month billed annually excluding VAT, with the monthly rate not shown.
- Runs on
- WebmacOSWindowsLinuxSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open source under AGPL-3.0, self-hostable or EU-hosted cloud
- Desktop activity tracking and idle detection stay local
- Invoices cover VAT, discounts and EN 16931 e-invoicing
- Reports export to PDF, CSV or Excel, or share as a read-only link
Trade-offs
- Invoicing, PDF reports and team access control need the paid plan
- The free plan covers one user only
- Only the annual per-user rate is shown; the monthly rate is not listed
- On-premise pricing sits on a separate tab that was not captured
How solidtime markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on solidtime’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Time tracking that gets out of your way”
- Angle: Simplicity / ease
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from solidtime’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The solidtime pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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