eMonitor's pricing is deliberately simple: three plans, all-inclusive, no seat minimums, no hidden fees. This guide explains what Starter, Professional, and Enterprise cost, what each includes, and how to pick the right one.

Monitoring software pricing is usually designed to confuse: a low headline rate, then essential features gated behind tiers that cost several times more, plus seat minimums and annual jumps. eMonitor is built to be the opposite, simple, transparent, and all-inclusive, so the price you see is the price you pay. This guide explains eMonitor's pricing in full: the three plans and what they cost, what all-inclusive actually means, why there is a free trial rather than a free tier, how the total cost compares to the market, and how to choose the plan that fits your team. The aim is that you can budget eMonitor accurately before you ever start a trial.

The three eMonitor plans

eMonitor has three plans, all priced per user per month. Starter is $3.90 per user (billed annually, or $5.90 billed quarterly). Professional is $6.90 per user (or $10.90 quarterly). Enterprise is $13.90 per user (or $22.90 quarterly). Each higher plan builds on the one below it, adding depth for larger or more demanding teams.

The plans differ by depth and scale rather than by locking away basics. Starter covers the core monitoring, time tracking, and productivity features most teams need; Professional adds more advanced capability; Enterprise adds the depth, controls, and support larger organizations require. You move up as your needs grow, not to reach features that should have been included.

Annual billing carries the lower rate, which is standard, but the quarterly option exists for teams that want shorter commitment. Either way, there are no seat minimums, so you pay for your actual headcount, whether that is five people or five hundred, with no artificial floor.

A useful way to sanity-check any monitoring price, including eMonitor's, is to build the exact feature list you will actually use and then price every candidate for that list rather than for its advertised entry tier. This exercise consistently exposes the gap between a headline rate and a real bill, because tiered tools reveal their true cost only once the metered features are added back in. Against that honest comparison, eMonitor's all-inclusive rate tends to look better than its position on a simple cheapest-first table would suggest, precisely because there is nothing to add back.

What all-inclusive means

All-inclusive means that within your plan, features are not metered or gated individually. On Starter, you get the full set of core capabilities, time tracking, productivity monitoring, app and website tracking, attendance, screen monitoring, and dashboards, rather than a stripped-down teaser.

This is the opposite of the common tiered model, where a cheap base plan exists mainly to get you in the door and the features you actually need sit two tiers up. With eMonitor, the plan you choose determines depth and scale, not whether you can use core functionality, so there is no mid-contract surprise when you reach for a feature.

The practical benefit is honest budgeting. You can calculate your eMonitor cost as simply headcount times the plan rate, with no add-ons to estimate, which is why total cost is so much easier to reason about than with tools that meter every capability, a contrast our guide to monitoring software costs details.

It also pays to price for where you will be in a year, not only today. A tool that is inexpensive now but will meter a capability you predictably grow into, or jump in price at your next headcount tier, can cost more over the real horizon than a transparent all-inclusive plan. Because eMonitor's plans build on one another and every feature within a plan is included, growing into more capability is a matter of adding depth when you need it rather than discovering that the thing you now depend on sits behind a paywall you did not budget for.

Free trial, not a free tier

eMonitor offers a 7-day free trial rather than a permanent free plan, and the distinction is deliberate. The trial gives you the full, all-inclusive product, no credit card required, so you can evaluate the real platform on your own team. A free tier, by contrast, would mean a permanently limited version, which is not what eMonitor is.

This approach is honest about what eMonitor is: a complete, paid platform you can try before buying, not a freemium tool where the free version exists to upsell you. You get everything during the trial, judge it on your own data, and then choose a paid plan only if it earns its place.

So if you are comparing eMonitor to free monitoring tools, the right comparison is value, not price. Free tools cap seats, omit features, or monetize your data, as our guide to free monitoring software explains, whereas eMonitor's trial lets you test a full paid product at no cost and no risk before committing a cent.

For teams that want a quick estimate, the arithmetic really is that simple: multiply your headcount by the plan rate and you have your monthly cost, with nothing to add for features and no seat minimum to inflate a small team. A fifteen-person team on Starter is fifteen times $3.90, or $58.50 a month, for the full core platform. That predictability, the absence of the surprise add-ons that inflate tiered tools, is itself a large part of why teams find eMonitor easy to budget and easy to trust.

eMonitor — Pricing

Three Simple Plans

$3.90

Starter

$6.90

Professional

$13.90

Enterprise

$0

Hidden fees

Per-user rate by plan

Starter

Pro

Enterprise

Add-ons

Minimums

What is included

Every feature in planYes

Seat minimumNone

Free trial7-day

▲ All-inclusive pricing means the plan rate is the whole cost: no gating, no add-ons, no seat minimums.

Illustrative eMonitor dashboard.

Total cost and value

The headline rate is only part of the cost story, and it is where eMonitor's all-inclusive model pays off. A ten-person team on Starter runs the complete platform for $39 a month, and because nothing is gated, that figure does not climb as you use more of the product, unlike tiered tools where the real cost appears only after you add the features you need.

Compared with the market, eMonitor's Starter rate sits at the affordable end while including capabilities that cost extra elsewhere. Many competitors charge more per user and still meter features, so the honest total-cost comparison, pricing each tool for the exact features you will actually use, frequently favors eMonitor even against lower headline rates.

Value also comes from consolidation. Because eMonitor combines productivity, time, attendance, and security in one platform, it can replace several separate tools, so the per-user rate is buying breadth that would otherwise mean multiple subscriptions. That consolidation is a real part of the value that a plan-rate comparison alone misses.

Which plan should you choose?

For most teams, Starter at $3.90 per user is the right beginning. It covers the core monitoring, time-tracking, productivity, and attendance features that answer the questions most businesses have, and because it is all-inclusive, you are not missing basics by choosing the entry plan.

Move to Professional at $6.90 when you need the additional depth it adds, and to Enterprise at $13.90 when you need the fuller controls, scale, and support that larger or more regulated organizations require. Because higher plans build on lower ones, upgrading is a matter of adding depth, not repurchasing basics.

The best way to choose is to start on the trial with a clear goal and see which plan's capabilities you actually use to meet it. Because the trial is the full product, you can judge exactly what you need before committing, and then pick the plan that matches, with no credit card required to begin. Start a free trial to size it against your own team.

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eMonitor pricing at a glance:

• Starter: $3.90 per user per month (annual), core monitoring and productivity.
• Professional: $6.90 per user, added depth for growing teams.
• Enterprise: $13.90 per user, full controls and scale.
• All-inclusive: features within a plan are not gated or metered.
• No seat minimums: pay for your actual headcount.
• Quarterly option: shorter commitment at a slightly higher rate.
• Free trial, not free tier: the full product for 7 days, no card.
• Predictable total: cost is simply headcount times plan rate.

eMonitor's pricing is built to be understood in a sentence: pick a plan, multiply by your headcount, and that is your cost, with every feature in that plan included and no add-ons to estimate. That simplicity is itself a feature in a market designed to obscure the real price.

Because the trial is the full product, you can confirm both the value and the right plan on your own team before paying anything, which is the honest way to buy monitoring software.

Try eMonitor at $3.90 per user

eMonitor's pricing is simple by design: Starter at $3.90, Professional at $6.90, and Enterprise at $13.90 per user per month, each all-inclusive within its plan, with no seat minimums and no hidden fees. The price you see is the price you pay, which makes budgeting eMonitor a matter of headcount times plan rate.

Rather than a limited free tier, eMonitor offers a 7-day free trial of the full platform with no credit card required, so you can evaluate the real product and confirm the right plan on your own team. Trusted by 1,000+ companies worldwide and rated 4.8/5 on Capterra.

The clearest way to judge value is on your own data. Start a free trial, see which plan's capabilities you actually use, and choose with a complete, honest picture of what eMonitor costs and delivers.