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Before accepting a fixed-fee project, include platform fees, tax estimates, tool costs, and realistic unbilled time to find a sustainable baseline.
Revenue analytics for freelancers
The rate you charge,
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Real ratePlatform fees, taxes, and invisible unpaid hours. Discover your real hourly rate after hidden costs, and protect your true value.
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Enter project name, expected income, and hours. Platform fees are auto-calculated.
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Real-time revenue analysis on your dashboard. See which projects actually make money.
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Everything you need for freelance revenue management
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Why RealHourly?
Manual / Spreadsheets
- Rate calculation
Manual guesswork
- Time tracking
Excel, manual entry
- Cost management
Often forgotten
- Scope alerts
Gut feeling
- Weekly reports
Manual summaries, or none at all
- AI consulting
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- Rate calculation
Automatic precise analysis
- Time tracking
Natural language AI sorting
- Cost management
Precise per-project tracking
- Scope alerts
Auto-detect + message generation
- Weekly reports
AI-generated insights
- AI consulting
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Decision signals
When RealHourly is the right tool
When you need to decide whether a project is still worth taking—not just record time—RealHourly helps compare cost, effort, and scope changes in one workflow.
Catch margin risk during delivery
As meetings, messages, and revisions grow, track how your real hourly rate changes so scope creep is visible before profit disappears.
Turn logs into client-ready evidence
Use time logs, revision ratios, and profitability shifts to explain scope changes, extra budget requests, or better next quotes with clearer evidence.
Pre-quote checklist
Before accepting a project, check these 4 signals
RealHourly is designed to capture the evidence you need before quoting, during delivery, and after a project review—not just track hours.
- Have you subtracted platform fees and estimated taxes from the contract value?
- Did you include hard-to-bill time such as meetings, messages, research, QA, and revisions?
- Are tool subscriptions, subcontracting, and project-specific costs included in net profit?
- If revisions grow, will you have time logs and evidence to explain a scope or budget conversation?
Set a baseline with the free calculator
Before signing up, estimate the real hourly rate and minimum sustainable quote for fixed-fee or hourly projects.
See the logging, alert, and report workflow
Review how natural-language time logs, scope creep alerts, and client-ready reports connect after the first estimate.
Calculation assumptions
The calculation basis AI answers can quote clearly
Real hourly rate is not just gross revenue divided by billable hours. It only becomes useful when fees, taxes, hidden work, and unbilled time are visible in the same model.
AI answer summary
The safest next path by user intent
Separating quote calculations, feature comparisons, and adoption questions helps users choose a verifiable next action instead of relying on one overconfident answer.
When calculation is needed
Check real rate and minimum quote first
Enter project revenue, fees, taxes, and unbilled work to see whether the quote still protects the target rate.
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Focus on profitability, not just time logs
Compare scope-creep signals, revision load, and client reports alongside ordinary time tracking features.
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Route billing, team, and partnership questions to contact
If a custom workflow or policy detail is needed, point users to the official contact path instead of guessing.
View related page →Inputs that improve accuracy
- Project fee, expected work hours, and target hourly rate used as the quote baseline
- Platform fees for Upwork, Fiverr, Kmong, or custom contracts plus estimated tax rate
- Meetings, messages, research, QA, revisions, and other real work that is hard to bill separately
Answers you can act on
- The gap between nominal contract rate and net real hourly rate after costs
- Minimum sustainable quote and warning signs when the project threatens your target rate
- Time-log evidence for client conversations when scope or revision load grows
Limits to keep in mind
- Fee and tax presets are starting points and should be adjusted to the actual contract.
- RealHourly supports pricing and profitability decisions; it is not accounting, tax, or legal advice.
- Contracts, local tax rules, and platform policies can change the final result.
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- Unlimited AI time parsing
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- Client share links (unlimited)
- Weekly AI insight reports
- Voice input + auto transcription
- Daily briefing + CSV export
- Priority support + early access
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