Comparison · ActivTrak Pricing
ActivTrak Pricing
What ActivTrak's tiers include, and the structural question underneath the pricing: what happens to a productivity score once the people being scored can see it.
Free
Limited users and retention
Essentials
Full activity and alarms
Professional
Coaching and benchmarks
Enterprise
Advanced analytics
Direct answer
ActivTrak prices per user per month across a limited free tier and three paid plans, Essentials, Professional, and Enterprise, typically from around $10 to $20 depending on tier and billing period.
The tiers are organised around analytics depth rather than capture depth, which makes ActivTrak a reporting product first and a monitoring product second. Insight by Hyring Pro is $7 per user per month with nothing gated.
| Free | Limited users and retention |
|---|---|
| Essentials | Full activity data, alarms, retention |
| Professional | Productivity coaching, benchmarks, workload |
| Enterprise | Advanced analytics, integrations, support |
| Organising feature | Analytics and classification, not screenshots |
| Insight by Hyring Pro | $7 per user monthly, nothing gated |
The Tier Structure
Paid tiers add reporting depth rather than more capture.
How ActivTrak's tiers are structured
Free
Limited users, basic activity and reporting
Essentials
Full activity data, alarms, longer retention
Professional
Productivity coaching, benchmarks, workload management
Enterprise
Advanced analytics, integrations, dedicated support
The paid tiers are organised around analytics depth rather than capture depth, which is the honest difference between ActivTrak and the screenshot-led products. It is a reporting tool first.
That is a meaningful distinction from the screenshot-led products. ActivTrak collects application and website activity and then invests heavily in classifying and reporting on it. If you are comparing it against Hubstaff or Time Doctor, you are comparing an analytics product with evidence products, and the shortlist you should be building depends on which of those you actually want.
What ActivTrak Is Genuinely Good At
Reporting depth and benchmarking, better than most of the category.
The analytics are the product and they are strong. Activity classification, team and organisational rollups, benchmark comparison, and workload distribution reporting are more developed here than in tools that treat reporting as an output of monitoring rather than the point of it. For an operations or workforce planning function that wants a mature analytics layer over activity data, this is a serious product and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The Productivity Score Problem
Scoring individuals is the fastest way to make the score stop meaning anything.
What happens to a productivity score once people know it exists
Score published
Individuals ranked on a productivity percentage
Behaviour adapts
Time shifts toward whatever the score counts
Score improves
The number rises. The work does not.
Measure is lost
It now describes compliance, not productivity
This is Goodhart's law applied to workforce analytics: when a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure. Scoring individuals is the fastest way to make the score meaningless, and the effect is strongest among the people most motivated to do well.
This is not a criticism unique to ActivTrak, it applies to any product that ranks individuals on a productivity percentage, and several do. The mechanism is Goodhart's law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Publish a score and people optimise for the score, because they are rational and their appraisal depends on it.
What follows is predictable. Time migrates toward applications the classifier counts as productive. Thinking time, which looks like idleness, gets minimised. The number rises and the work does not, and the organisation now has a confident metric describing compliance rather than output.
Insight by Hyring takes a deliberately different position. We surface patterns rather than scores: fragmentation, deep work blocks, sustained overwork, meeting load. Those describe a working day without ranking a person against a percentage, and because the employee sees them first, they read as feedback rather than as an assessment being compiled about them.
Head to Head
Analytics depth against companion depth, at half the entry price.
Insight by Hyring against the category
| Capability | ActivTrak | Insight by Hyring |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop companion avatar | None | Nudges, checks and celebrates, privately |
| Shared focus music rooms | None | Listen in sync with your team |
| Wellbeing reminders | None | Water, stretch, 20-20-20, wind-down, custom |
| Kudos and recognition | Separate tool | Built in, beside the work data |
| AI answers on the work day | Reports and exports | Ask a question, get a sentence |
| Capture method | Manual timer | Passive, as work happens |
| Who sees data first | Manager | The employee, always |
| Keystroke logging | Common | Never, by permanent design |
| Wired into hiring decisions | No | Yes, through Hyring |
Price against capability, per user per month
| Tier | ActivTrak | Insight by Hyring |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Limited users and retention | 30 days, unlimited users, nothing gated |
| Paid entry | ~$10 per user monthly | Pro $7 per user monthly |
| Activity classification | Deep, the core strength | Included, with AI interpretation |
| Individual productivity scoring | Central to the product | Deliberately not offered |
| Companion, focus rooms, reminders | Not sold at any tier | Included in Pro at $7 |
| Benchmark comparison | Professional tier | Not offered |
Desktop companion
A floating avatar that reads the day and speaks to the employee before any manager sees it. Offers a sprint, checks in on suspicious perfection, celebrates a good run.
Shared focus music rooms
Teams listen in sync across curated channels, with room presence showing who is deep in work. No competitor in this category has built this.
Wellbeing reminders
Water, stretch, the 20-20-20 eye rule, end-of-day wind-down, and custom prompts, with notifications muted during focus sessions.
Insight by Hyring is the only product here connected to a hiring platform, so work data flows into people decisions and into the next hire. No standalone tracker can close that loop.
Pricing
Pro at $7 per user per month, Enterprise at $14, frozen for the life of the subscription.
Pro is $7 per user per month and Enterprise is $14, under the founding offer for the first 7,000 companies. List prices are $14 and $21. Your rate is frozen for as long as the subscription stays active, not for the first year. Before that, 30 days free with every Pro feature, unlimited users, and no credit card.
Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork.
Expertise
Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch: a system that listens, adapts its questioning in real time, and flags fraud rather than following a fixed script.
Expertise
FAQs
ActivTrak prices per user per month across a limited free tier and paid Essentials, Professional, and Enterprise plans, typically from around $10 to $20 depending on tier and billing period, often with annual commitments. Rates change, so confirm current pricing on ActivTrak's own site.
