Rize measures your focus. Stunda measures it and then bills for it.
Rize is a serious focus product and it now sells invoicing too. The
differences that survive are the ones this page is about: there is no free
Rize, its team plan is priced per seat, and its analytics are built for
improving how you work rather than for producing what you send a client.
$4.49 per person a month is the only personal rate
Basic $9.99, Pro $23.99, Max $39.99 a month on annual billing
Focus mode and blocking
Not offered
Session timers, break prompts and interruption tracking
MCP server
First-party, read and write, on every plan
First-party, in beta. Read-only on Professional, full on Team
Linux
Not offered
Listed as coming soon
One person Rize: $9.99 Stunda Pro: $4.49
5 people Rize: $149.95 Stunda Team: $22.45
Rize at $9.99 per seat a month, billed annually.
Individual plans are Basic at $9.99, Pro at $23.99 and Max at $39.99 a month on
annual billing; Basic is $12.99 month to month. Team plans are $29.99 per seat a
month on annual billing, $39.99 monthly, and are a separate product from the
individual tiers. There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial. Stunda Team is $4.49 per person a month, with no seat cap.
That is where the two models separate: 6.7x at 5 people.
The pricing difference is the team plan, not the personal one
Rize's individual plans start at $9.99 a month on annual billing and run
to $29.99. Stunda Pro is $4.49, which is a real but modest gap. The gap
that is not modest is the team one: Rize charges $29.99 per seat a month on
annual billing, so five people is $149.95, while Stunda Team is $22.45 for
the workspace regardless of whether that workspace holds two people or
five. Per workspace rather than per seat is a deliberate choice for small
studios where adding a contractor should not be a budget conversation.
Free to start, because a tracker earns trust over weeks
Rize gives you seven days. A time tracker is not a product you can
evaluate in seven days, because the thing you are evaluating is whether it
is still running, still accurate and still worth opening in week three.
Stunda's free plan is not a trial: one user, thirty days of history, three
invoices a month, no card. If it turns out you do not need unlimited
history, you can stay there.
There is no free plan, and the trial is a week
Rize sells a 7-day trial with full access and no card, and nothing permanently
free underneath it. Seven days is enough to see whether you like the interface and
not really enough to see whether the categorisation learns your work, which is the
thing you are actually buying. It also means the sensible way to evaluate it,
running it alongside whatever you use now until you have an opinion, has a clock
on it. Stunda's free tier is not a trial: one person, unlimited history, tracking
and invoicing, with no expiry and no card at signup, so the evaluation can take as
long as it takes.
Your time, inside the assistant you already use
Rize is one of only two products on this site that ships a first-party
MCP server, so this is a narrower comparison than the others. Theirs is in
beta, authenticates with OAuth, and is gated by plan: read-only for personal
time on Professional, the full thing on Team and Enterprise. Stunda's is on
every plan including Free, reads and writes for everyone, and authenticates
with a token you create and revoke yourself.
Your hours, readable from your own AI client
Stunda hosts an MCP endpoint, so Claude, Cursor, Codex and VS Code can answer
questions about your tracked week without an export. It runs strictly as you,
on every plan including Free, and it uses no AI quota.
Rize is built by people who care about attention, and it shows: focus
session scoring, interruption tracking, break coaching, and categorisation
that you can tune as you work. If your problem is that your days are
fragmented and you want a tool whose whole job is to unfragment them, Rize
is a more thoughtful answer than Stunda's productivity score. An earlier
version of this page also claimed Rize does not generate invoices, which is
no longer true. It sells invoicing on its paid tiers.
Moving over from Rize
Nothing here is a migration project. The honest version is that tracking
starts fresh and your history comes across as a file.
Export your history from Rize as CSV and keep it. It is your
record of what you already billed, and it does not need to live in Stunda
for that to be true.
Install Stunda and let it run for a week alongside Rize. The
two do not conflict, and a week is long enough to see whether the sessions
it records match what you would have typed in.
Rize has no free plan, so the overlap week runs on its trial. Start Stunda first and you will not be racing a clock.
Re-create your active projects and rates, which for most people is
a handful of rows. Historical entries can be posted through the API or
logged by an assistant through MCP if you want them in one place.
Invoice from Stunda once before you cancel anything. If the number
it produces matches the number you would have sent, the switch is done.
Rize and Stunda: common questions
How much does Rize cost?
Rize publishes individual plans from $9.99 to $29.99 a month on annual billing, or $12.99 to $39.99 billed monthly, and team plans at $29.99 per seat a month on annual billing. There is no free tier, only a 7-day trial. Checked 30 July 2026.
Does Rize do invoicing?
Yes, on its paid tiers. An earlier version of this page said it did not, which was out of date. The remaining difference is where invoicing sits in each product: it is a feature Rize added to a focus tracker, and it is the point of Stunda.
Which is better for tracking deep work?
Rize, honestly. Its focus session scoring, interruption tracking and break coaching go deeper than Stunda’s productivity score and active-versus-idle split. Stunda measures focus well enough to price it; Rize measures it to improve it.
Is Stunda cheaper for a team?
Substantially. Rize team plans are $29.99 per seat a month on annual billing, so five people is $149.95 a month. Stunda Team is $4.49 per person on annual billing, so the same five people is $22.45.
Does Rize have a free plan?
No. Rize offers a 7-day free trial with full feature access and no credit card, and every tier below Enterprise is paid. Stunda's free plan is permanent rather than a trial. Checked 24 August 2026.
What are Rize's current plans?
Individual plans are Basic at $9.99 a month, Pro at $23.99 and Max at $39.99, all on annual billing. Team plans are priced separately at $29.99 per seat a month annually, and Enterprise is custom. Checked 24 August 2026.
Does Stunda run on Linux?
No. macOS and Windows only today, plus the web dashboard in any browser. Rize lists Linux as coming soon, so if Linux is a requirement, neither of us can help you yet and Rize is likelier to first.
Where these numbers come from
Every Rize figure on this page was read off Rize's own
public pages on , and we quote
their cheapest advertised rate rather than their most expensive. Prices
change; if you find one here that no longer matches theirs, it is our
mistake and telling us fixes it for everyone.
Stunda's own prices come from our pricing page, and the plan
limits described here are the ones the API actually enforces rather than
marketing copy about them.
Still measuring, since the moment you opened this page
You've been here 2:40.
That's $3.78 unbilled.
That's how it slips away: a few quiet minutes at a time, on every project.
Stunda catches them all day, silently, and turns them into invoices that
send in four steps.