LeaveSheet vs absence.io

Pricing in detail, for a 10-employee team

For 10 employees, LeaveSheet is $15/month. The equivalent team on absence.io's Starter plan (the only tier comparable in scope — absence and leave tracking) is €29.90/month, which is close to double LeaveSheet's price for the narrower feature set once you convert currency.

To match some of LeaveSheet's included accrual detail plus get time tracking and SSO, a 10-person team would likely need absence.io's Pro tier at €4.99/user/month (€49.90/month) — over three times LeaveSheet's price. Complete, with expenses and API access, runs €7.99/user/month (€79.90/month) for the same 10 people.

The gap widens because absence.io's pricing reflects a broader platform: you're paying partly for capabilities (time tracking, employee records, expense management) that a pure PTO tracker like LeaveSheet doesn't attempt to offer, and that many 5-50 employee teams don't need yet.

Where absence.io is stronger

absence.io is a genuine HR platform, not just a leave tracker — as your company grows past PTO tracking into needing time tracking, digital employee files, or expense management, absence.io scales into those without switching tools, provided you're willing to pay for the higher tiers. It integrates with Microsoft, Google, and Slack on every plan including Starter, which is useful if your team already lives in those ecosystems. It also emphasizes GDPR compliance with servers hosted in Germany, which matters specifically for EU-based companies or US companies with EU employees subject to GDPR.

absence.io also claims a larger installed base (3,000+ companies) and native iOS/Android apps, which LeaveSheet does not offer.

Where LeaveSheet is stronger

LeaveSheet costs roughly half of absence.io's entry tier for the specific job of PTO tracking, and every dollar of that price goes toward accrual accuracy: tenure-based tiers, caps, carryover with negative-balance support, recalculated on the fly and tested to the cent against a certified Excel template with 150+ automated tests. There's no upsell path to a bigger platform because LeaveSheet doesn't try to be one.

LeaveSheet's styled Excel export is a genuine differentiator here — it produces an actual PTO tracker workbook, not a bare CSV dump, which matters for admins who want to hand a finance or ops team something readable outside the app. For a US small business that just needs accurate leave tracking without buying into a larger HR suite, LeaveSheet is the narrower, cheaper option built for exactly that.

How to try LeaveSheet

Start a 14-day free trial at app.tabletemplates.com with every feature unlocked and no credit card required. The trial organization comes with demo data pre-loaded so you can see accrual balances and the team calendar before importing your real employee list via CSV.

If you expect to need time tracking, employee records, or expense management within the next year, or if GDPR/EU hosting is a requirement, it's worth trialing absence.io in parallel — but if PTO tracking is the whole job, LeaveSheet's trial will show whether the accrual math matches what you'd expect from a spreadsheet.