Time tracking · head to head

Orbiz AMS vs Hubstaff

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 2 October 2026

Hubstaff sells proof of work by the seat: activity levels, screenshots, app and URL tracking, GPS job sites and payments, from $4.99 a seat billed annually with two seats to start. AMS is the attendance tool inside Orbiz — browser clock-in, optional screenshots, idle rules the organisation sets, timesheet approvals and leave — and its hours run payroll in Ledgr and project cost in Trackline. Pick Hubstaff if you need field GPS, client invoicing or native apps today. Pick AMS if attendance should feed salary sheets and margins without a price per tracked person.

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Head to head

Orbiz AMS against Hubstaff, row by row

Read from Hubstaff's own product and pricing pages. 5 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz AMS and Hubstaff
	Orbiz AMS	Hubstaff
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Team: $10 per seat a month billed annually, $12 monthly. Starter $4.99 / $7; Grow $7.50 / $9. Each plan starts at two seats.
No per-seat charge¹	Yes	No
Timer and timesheets against projects	Yes	Yes
Optional screenshots of tracked time	Yes	Yes
Idle time detection²	Yes	Yes
Leave requests and balances	Yes	Yes
Biometric device import	Yes	Not published
Salary sheets with tax slabs and statutory contributions³	Yes	Not published
Project cost from tracked hours	Yes	Yes
Hiring and employee records on the same login⁴	Yes	No
GPS job sites with automatic clock-in	No	Yes
App and URL usage tracking	No	Yes
Client invoicing from tracked hours	No	Yes
Native desktop and mobile apps	No	Yes
AI unusual-activity detection	No	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)⁵	Yes	Yes

¹Hubstaff charges every seat that tracks time, from two seats on each plan.
²Orbiz decides idle on the server from one organisation policy; Hubstaff has an idle timeout from Grow and discards idle time automatically on Team.
³Hubstaff turns tracked hours into payments on Team and lists Wise, PayPal, Gusto and Deel among its integrations; its pages do not describe tax calculation.
⁴Hubstaff’s product menu covers time tracking, productivity monitoring, workforce analytics and payments.
⁵Hubstaff’s MCP server is read-only and open to owners and managers of an organisation (support.hubstaff.com, read 2026-10-04).

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 2 October 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz AMS

Clock in and out with break types and idle detection
Personal and team timesheets with project-level time entries
Leave requests, approvals and an entitlement per leave type
A holiday calendar, attendance reports and background exports
Punches imported from biometric devices, each PIN mapped to a member once
Optional activity screenshots, with a list of who is checked in but not being captured

Everything AMS does

Hubstaff

Time tracking with automated timesheets, on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and the web
Activity levels, screenshots, and app and URL tracking: limited on Starter and Grow, unlimited on Team
Idle timeout and work breaks from Grow; idle time discarded automatically on Team
Clients and invoices on every plan; time off, project budgets and expenses from Grow
Payments and payroll, scheduling and daily limits on Team
GPS job sites that clock people in and out automatically

From Hubstaff's own pages. Best for: Outsourcing firms that bill on proof of work and want payroll in the same tool.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Hubstaff: what people ask

What does Hubstaff Team cost against Orbiz?

Hubstaff Team is $10 a seat a month billed annually, $12 monthly, and every member who tracks time takes a seat — thirty people come to $3,600 a year on annual billing. AMS has no seat price; it is one of ten tools in the Orbiz flat price per organisation, $4,188 a year for up to 50 people. For time tracking alone Hubstaff is cheaper at that size; Orbiz is the cheaper bill once HR, projects or payroll would be separate subscriptions too.

Does AMS track apps, URLs or location like Hubstaff?

No. AMS records clock-ins, breaks, idle pauses and, where the organisation switches them on, screenshots with a capture-health record. It does not log app or URL usage and has no GPS or geofencing, so a field team that clocks in at job sites is better served by Hubstaff.

Can Hubstaff run payroll the way Ledgr does?

Hubstaff turns tracked hours into payments on its Team plan and connects to payment and payroll providers. Ledgr builds the salary sheet itself — rate rules, bonuses, claims, loan recovery, statutory contributions and tax slabs — and issues payslips, with Pakistan’s rules built in and other countries entered as tables.

Still deciding between Orbiz and Hubstaff?

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