Timely drafts your timesheet with AI. Stunda skips the timesheet.
This is the closest comparison on the site: Timely also records your day
automatically and also puts a model on top of it. The differences are what
the model is for, what leaves your machine to make it work, and what it
costs per seat.
No card required. Timely facts checked
against
their own pages.
Stunda and Timely, line by line
AI-drafted timesheets from a memory tracker that records titles and URLs. Rows are marked for whichever product actually wins them.
Feature comparison between Stunda and Timely, checked 24 August 2026
Feature
Stunda
Timely
Automatic tracking
Sessions, per app, with active and idle split
Memory tracker, including documents and meetings
What the AI does
Answers questions and summarises. It does not write your entries
Drafts timesheet entries from recorded memories
Invoicing
Every plan, stored and shareable
Premium tier and above
Free plan
Free forever for one user
None
Price for one person
$4.49 per person a month
$9 per seat a month on annual billing, no invoicing
Project limit on the entry tier
None on Pro
20 projects on Starter
Cheapest tier that invoices
The free one
Premium, $16 per seat a month annually. Starter at $9 does not invoice
User cap on the entry tier
None. Team is per person with no cap
Starter caps at 5 users, Premium at 50
AI time categorisation
Suggestions you confirm, on the paid plan
On every plan, and it is the core of the product
Window titles and URLs
Query strings stripped, and a switch for AI payloads
Titles and URLs recorded to build the memory timeline
MCP server
First-party, hosted, on every plan
Community-built wrappers over the REST API
One person Timely: $9 Stunda Pro: $4.49
5 people Timely: $45 Stunda Team: $22.45
Timely at $9 per seat a month, billed annually.
Starter caps projects at 20 and users at 5, and does not include invoicing. Premium adds invoicing at $16 per seat a month on annual billing. Tasks are a $5 per person add-on. Stunda Team is $4.49 per person a month, with no seat cap.
That is where the two models separate: 2.0x at 5 people.
Where the AI sits, and what it is allowed to see
To draft entries from your day, Timely's memory tracker records window
and document titles and URLs and syncs them to its servers. That is not a
criticism of Timely, it is what the feature requires, and Timely is clear
that the timeline stays private to the user. Stunda draws the line in a
different place: only aggregate metadata reaches the model, keystroke
content and screenshots never leave your machine at all, window titles in
AI payloads are a switch you can turn off, and the AI features have a
master switch on top of that.
Invoicing on the first tier, not the second
Timely puts invoicing on Premium, at $16 per seat a month on annual
billing, with Starter capped at 20 projects and no invoicing at all. If you
are a freelancer, the tier you actually need is the $16 one. Stunda
includes invoicing on the free plan, capped at three a month, and removes
the cap on Pro at $4.49. For five people the difference is $80 a month
against $4.49 per person.
The tier that invoices is not the tier you were quoted
Timely's entry price is Starter, and Starter does not invoice. Invoicing
arrives at Premium, which is a different number, so the rate worth comparing
against a tracker that invoices on its cheapest paid tier is Premium's rather than
Starter's. Starter also caps you at five users and twenty projects, both of which
a working freelancer passes without noticing. None of this is hidden, it is on
their pricing page in plain text; it is just that "from $9 a seat" and "the plan
that does what I need" are two different figures here, and the comparison is only
honest if it uses the second one.
Your time, inside the assistant you already use
Both products use a model; only one of them lets you bring your own.
Timely's AI runs inside Timely. Stunda's MCP server puts your projects,
totals, breakdowns and workload signals inside Claude, Cursor, Codex or VS
Code, where you can combine them with everything else that assistant can
already see: your repository, your calendar, your issue tracker. It also
means the reasoning is billed to a subscription you already have. The Timely
MCP servers that exist are community projects wrapping its public API, which
means an unofficial dependency and your key in somebody else's code.
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.
Timely's memory tracker captures more than Stunda's does, including
documents and meetings, and its model turns that into draft timesheet
entries you review and approve. That is a genuinely different level of
automation from what Stunda offers, and for someone whose billing is
task-shaped rather than session-shaped it is the better fit. Stunda's model
does not write your entries, because a Stunda session already is an entry.
Ours is pointed at the questions afterwards instead.
Moving over from Timely
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 Timely 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 Timely. 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.
Timely 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.
Timely and Stunda: common questions
Is Timely or Stunda better at automatic tracking?
Timely captures more, including documents and meetings, and drafts timesheet entries from what it captured. Stunda captures per-app time, activity counts and the active-versus-idle split, and turns the session directly into a billable entry. Timely automates writing the timesheet; Stunda removes the timesheet.
How much does Timely cost?
Starter is $9 per seat a month on annual billing or $11 monthly, capped at 20 projects and 5 users, without invoicing. Premium is $16 annual or $20 monthly and adds invoicing. Unlimited is $22 annual or $28 monthly. Tasks are a $5 per person add-on. There is no free plan. Checked 30 July 2026.
What does Stunda send to an AI provider?
Aggregate metadata only: app names, durations, counts, scores, project and client names, and optionally window titles. Keystroke content and screenshots are never sent, there is a preference to exclude window titles, and a master switch to turn the AI features off entirely.
Can I use my own AI assistant with Stunda?
Yes, and this is the biggest practical difference between the two. Stunda runs a first-party MCP server serving the 2026-07-28 protocol revision, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex and VS Code can read your tracked time and log entries. Timely does not offer one.
Which Timely plan includes invoicing?
Premium, at $16 per seat a month on annual billing or $20 monthly. Starter, the entry tier at $9 annually, does not include invoicing and caps you at five users and twenty projects. Checked 24 August 2026.
Does Timely have a free plan?
No. Timely offers a 14-day trial with access to all features, and every tier is paid after that. Stunda is free forever for one person, with tracking, unlimited history and a monthly cap on invoices. Checked 24 August 2026.
Does Stunda cap projects on the paid plan?
No. Stunda Pro has no project cap, no client cap and no invoice cap at $4.49 a month. Timely's Starter tier caps projects at 20.
Where these numbers come from
Every Timely figure on this page was read off Timely'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.