Everhour vs OpenProject: Complete Comparison (2026)

Why choose Everhour

• Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for freelancers (5/10 vs 2/10)
• Better fit for small business (8/10 vs 5/10)

Why choose OpenProject

• Higher Security score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Customization score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (8/10 vs 4/10)
• Better fit for mid-market (8/10 vs 6/10)

Everhour

Pros

• More than 20 native integrations, including Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Jira and Linear, put a timer directly on tasks, and reviewers praise these integrations most.
• A browser extension adds tracking to more than 20 other web apps, such as Figma, HubSpot and Zendesk.
• Budgets with alerts, expense tracking and invoicing that syncs to QuickBooks, Xero or FreshBooks cover billable work end to end.
• The Team plan costs 8.50 USD per seat per month on yearly billing, and the free plan covers up to 5 seats.
• Reviewers often single out the customer support, and Everhour holds about a 4.8 out of 5 average across 139 SpotSaaS ratings.

Cons

• It is not a standalone PM suite: it has no Gantt charts, docs or whiteboards.
• The free plan has no integrations, which are the product's main value.
• Paid plans require 5 seats and payment by card only, and unused time is not refunded when you cancel.
• Its security documentation relies on AWS's SOC 2 compliance rather than its own report, and it does not run formal periodic risk assessments.
• Some users report hours that failed to record, too many reminder alerts, and limited chart-style reporting.

OpenProject

Pros

• The free self-hosted Community edition is GPLv3 open source and shares one codebase with the paid editions.
• It hosts cloud data in the EU, encrypts it with AES-256 at rest, and offers a signable GDPR data processing agreement.
• It supports classic Gantt planning and agile boards and backlogs in the same tool.
• Time and cost tracking with budget reports is built in.
• Long contract terms carry large discounts, for example fifteen months free on a five-year term.

Cons

• Paid plans require at least 25 users, and Premium requires 100.
• Several Reddit users report that self-hosted installation is hard, and some find the tool too elaborate for simple needs.
• Slack, Toggl and Mattermost connections are unsupported community plugins.
• Reviewers say the interface is less polished than tools like Asana, and that resource and workload management is weak.
• Many features, including SSO and portfolio management, require paid Enterprise tiers.