Employee monitoring
Tockly vs Teramind
Teramind is the forensic ceiling of employee monitoring: continuous screen video, keystroke logging, OCR of on-screen text, DLP, and insider-threat detection, sold to security and compliance buyers.
Tockly is work tracking that reads AI activity: every minute scored as hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle. Here is how the two compare, line by line.
At a glance
| Capability | Tockly | Teramind |
|---|---|---|
| Classifies human vs AI-agent minutes | Every minute: hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle | Flags bot-speed command streams; a security signal, not labor accounting |
| Credits time supervising an AI agent | Reads agent activity directly and credits it as work | Productivity layer still scores by input activity |
| Screenshots | Every 10 minutes, tied to the minute they capture | Continuous screen video plus stills |
| Activity tracking | Input event counts only, never keys or content | Keystroke logging, OCR, full forensic capture |
| App and site usage | Active app and window titles | Yes |
| Invoicing from tracked time | Free for up to 3 clients, unlimited on Pro | No |
| Free tier | Full capture, unlimited activity history | None, 5-seat minimum |
| Entry price (annual) | Free. Pro $12, Team $16 per seat/mo | About $14/seat/mo, billed monthly |
Teramind details verified against its public pricing and documentation as of July 2026. Products change; check Teramind's site for current numbers.
The minute Teramind can't see
Teramind is the closest competitor to AI-aware monitoring: it captures AI-chat prompts and responses and even markets human-versus-AI detection. But its split is a security heuristic, flagging command streams that move too fast to be human, built to catch rogue automation. Its productivity layer still scores by input activity, so supervised agent work reads as idle there. And its method is maximal capture: keystrokes, OCR, screen video. Tockly gets a cleaner answer from the agent's own event feed, with an input monitor that counts events and never records keys.
Agent minutes score as nothing happening.
Hands-on, steering, and agent time, each credited for what it is.
Pricing
Tockly
- Personal: free. Full capture, invoicing for 3 clients, screenshots from this month and last.
- Pro: $12/seat/mo annual ($15 monthly). Unlimited clients, 12 months of screenshot receipts.
- Team: $16/seat/mo annual ($20 monthly). Org rollups, roles, per-person AI adoption.
Teramind
- Starter: about $14/seat/mo billed monthly, 5-seat minimum.
- UAM: about $28/seat/mo. Keystroke logging, email and file monitoring.
- DLP: about $32/seat/mo. Content-aware blocking. The pricing page withholds figures; these are the numbers Teramind publishes in its own February 2026 pricing article.
Which should you pick?
Pick Teramind if you are a security or compliance buyer who needs DLP, insider-threat detection, and forensic session records for regulated environments. Nothing in the category captures more.
Pick Tockly if you want work measurement rather than forensics. Teramind can tell security what an employee typed into ChatGPT. Tockly tells a manager, and an invoice, how much of the work the human did versus the agent, without logging a single keystroke.
Frequently asked
Teramind says it distinguishes human work from AI. How is Tockly different?
Teramind's split is behavioral-velocity detection: it flags command streams running too fast to be human, as a security signal against rogue automation. It is inference, aimed at catching threats. Tockly's split comes from the agent's own event timeline, so agent-running and steering minutes are classified from ground truth and credited as labor. One is anomaly detection; the other is work accounting.
Does Tockly log keystrokes like Teramind?
No, by design. Teramind captures actual keystrokes, on-screen text via OCR, emails, and chats for forensic reconstruction. Tockly's input monitor counts events only, never keys or content. It is a work metric, not a keylogger. Tockly measures AI-augmented output without reading what anyone typed.
Who should actually buy Teramind?
Security and compliance teams in regulated industries that need DLP, insider-threat detection, and court-grade session forensics, and can pay the roughly $28 to $32 per seat per month, billed monthly, that Teramind quotes for those tiers. If what you need is honest measurement of how work gets done in an AI-assisted team, that is a different product, and it is the one Tockly is.
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