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Sumhour vs Toggl Track: a Toggl alternative for agencies

What happens to a billable hour after your team logs it? Take one hour at $125 from someone who costs your agency $75. In Sumhour it is approved, invoiced, paid online and counted as $50 of margin on any plan. In Toggl Track, approvals and the margin need Premium, and the invoice is a PDF your client pays outside Toggl. Try Sumhour free for 30 days, no card.

Toggl’s prices, plans and invoice help checked on its own pages on November 5, 2026.

The hourToggl TrackSumhour
Logged at a billable rateStarter and upEvery plan
Approved, so nobody edits it laterPremiumEvery plan
On an invoiceA PDF built from a filtered report, on every plan; the hour is not marked as billedA draft from unbilled time; the hour is marked as billed
PaidNo built-in way to mark it paid; its help suggests a "paid" tagThe client pays online into your account, or you record the payment
Margin: $50 on that hourPremium (labor costs and profitability)Every plan

Toggl Track is one of the best-known timers: quick to start, with apps everywhere and a free plan. It is built around tracking time. If you are looking for a Toggl alternative because your agency bills from those hours, two things matter. Timesheet approvals, labor costs and profitability reports sit on the Premium plan, priced per user. And its invoices, per its help center, have no online payment, and it documents no retainers or month-end close.

Sumhour is built for the step after the timer: approving the week, invoicing it and seeing the margin, at one price for the workspace with every feature in every plan.

What you pay at your team size

Toggl Track Premium is the plan with approvals and profitability, so it is the one to compare.

TeamToggl Track PremiumSumhour
5 people$120$80 on annual billing$79Studio, $63 on annual billing
10 people$240$160 on annual billing$79Studio, $63 on annual billing
20 people$480$320 on annual billing$179Agency, $143 on annual billing

Per month, in USD. Toggl Track Premium: $24 per user billed monthly, $16 billed annually; Starter is $12 ($9 annually) without approvals or profitability. Add-ons for time off and capacity cost extra per user. Sumhour: Studio covers up to 10 people, Agency up to 25.

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Which plan has which feature

FeatureToggl TrackSumhour
Timer and weekly timesheetEvery planEvery plan
Billable ratesStarter and upEvery plan
Timesheet approvals with locked periodsPremiumEvery plan
Labor cost and profitability reportsPremiumEvery plan
Fixed fee projectsPremiumEvery plan, with deposit and milestones
Invoices from tracked timeA PDF from a report on every plan, sent to QuickBooks on Starter; not saved as billedEvery plan: PDF, client link, reminders, recurring
Clients pay invoices onlineNot in Toggl Track; no built-in way to mark an invoice paid11 providers on your own account
Retainers with rollover and overageNot documentedEvery plan
Change orders the client approves onlineNot documentedEvery plan
Month-end page: unbilled work by age, write-offsNot documentedEvery plan
QuickBooks Online and XeroQuickBooks one way; no XeroBoth, with payments read back; on Sumhour Cloud at launch
AI apps over MCPMCP and CLI documented for the new Toggl app, not Toggl TrackYes, plus a REST API; command line tool at launch
Single sign-onPremiumGoogle sign-in, email links and passkeys; no SAML yet

"Not documented" means we found nothing on Toggl’s own pages, not that it cannot be done.

Where Toggl is ahead

Where Sumhour is different

Moving from Toggl

Export a detailed report as CSV from Toggl Track and upload it in Sumhour: it recognises Toggl’s columns, shows the first rows before importing, and any import can be undone. Seeimporting from Toggl, Clockify or a CSV.

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