Motion — Calendar, tasks and projects run by one autonomous scheduling engine — with 7,500 AI credits a seat and no free tier at all.
Short answer: Motion combines AI calendar, tasks, projects, docs and chat in one autonomous scheduling system. Pro AI is $19 per seat a month, or about $12.73 billed annually, including 7,500 AI credits per seat monthly. Business AI is $29 a seat, or about $19.43 annually, adding team capacity planning, Gantt charts, time tracking and 15,000 credits. A separate AI Employee tier is $49 a month. Annual billing saves roughly 33%. There is no free plan.
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Verdict at a glance
Overall rating: 4.0/5 ★★★★☆
Standout: One engine schedules everything. Tasks, projects and meetings are planned together rather than in three tools that do not know about each other.
Watch out: No free tier at any level, and AI credits are metered — 7,500 a seat on Pro and 15,000 on Business. Heavy automation users will need to watch the allowance.
Motion’s argument is that the reason your calendar and your task list disagree is that they are different systems. It runs one autonomous scheduling engine across calendar, tasks, projects, docs, chat and writing, so a task with a deadline gets placed in real time you actually have, and reshuffles when a meeting lands on top of it. For people who have abandoned a task manager because it became a list of things they were failing to do, that integration is the difference. Pro AI is $19 a seat a month, or about $12.73 billed annually — roughly a 33% saving — and includes the full scheduling engine without restriction, plus unlimited storage, apps across iOS, Android and desktop, integrations and 7,500 AI credits per seat monthly. Business AI at $29, or about $19.43 annually, adds team capacity planning, Gantt and timeline charts, time tracking, advanced dashboards, permissions, central billing, priority support and 15,000 credits. A separate AI Employee tier sits at $49 a month. Two caveats. There is no free plan at any level, so evaluating Motion costs money in a category where Reclaim gives away a genuinely useful tier forever. And AI credits are metered per seat, which makes cost less predictable than the headline suggests for teams leaning hard on automation.
Quick facts
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ideal team | People whose calendar and task list keep disagreeing with each other |
| Learning curve | Moderate — trusting autonomous scheduling takes adjustment |
| Setup time | A few hours to load tasks and set priorities |
| Free trial | Trial available; ⚠️ no free tier |
| Free tier | ⚠️ None at any level |
| AI credits | ⚠️ 7,500 per seat on Pro · 15,000 on Business |
| Annual saving | Roughly 33% |
| Key limit | Credit metering makes heavy automation less predictable |
Overview
Motion’s premise is that scheduling, tasks and projects belong to one system rather than three. Its autonomous engine takes your tasks, their deadlines and priorities, and your existing meetings, then places the work into time you genuinely have — reshuffling automatically when a meeting is added or a deadline moves. The failure mode it addresses is familiar: a task manager that becomes a list of things you are not doing, because nothing ever connected the list to the hours available. Motion connects them, and for people who have abandoned task managers for exactly that reason it is the most convincing answer in this comparison.
Pro AI is $19 per seat a month, or about $12.73 per seat billed annually at $152.76 a year, and includes the complete autonomous scheduling engine without restrictions: AI calendar and meetings, AI tasks and projects, AI docs and notes, AI chat and writer, unlimited storage, iOS, Android and desktop apps, integrations, and 7,500 AI credits per seat each month. Business AI is $29 a seat monthly or about $19.43 annually, adding team capacity planning, Gantt and timeline charts, time tracking, advanced dashboards, permissions and access control, central billing, priority support and 15,000 AI credits per seat. A separate AI Employee tier is priced at $49 a month. Paying annually saves roughly 33%.
Two things temper the recommendation. There is no free plan at any level — evaluating Motion costs money, in a category where Reclaim.ai gives away a genuinely useful tier forever and YouCanBookMe offers a free booking page. And AI credits are metered per seat, so a team leaning heavily on automation may find 7,500 credits a month more binding than expected, pushing them to Business at $29 for the capability rather than for the team features. Model your automation volume rather than assuming the credit allowance is notional. For a five-person team, Business at $19.43 a seat annually is about $1,166 a year against $1,740 on monthly billing.
Key features
- Autonomous scheduling engine — places tasks into time you actually have
- AI calendar and meetings — reshuffles when commitments change
- AI tasks and projects — planned against real available hours
- AI docs and notes — included from the Pro tier
- AI chat and writer — included from Pro
- Unlimited storage — on every paid tier
- Team capacity planning — Business AI tier
- Gantt and timeline charts — Business AI tier
- Time tracking and advanced dashboards — Business AI
- Apps across iOS, Android and desktop
Pricing (as of 2026-09-30)
Model: per-seat tiers with metered AI credits; roughly 33% off annual billing · Free tier: ⚠️ none at any level · Entry paid: $12.73/seat/mo billed annually (Pro AI)
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Pro AI | $19/seat/mo · ~$12.73/seat/mo annual ($152.76/yr) | Complete autonomous scheduling engine without restrictions · AI calendar and meetings · AI tasks and projects · AI docs and notes · AI chat and writer · unlimited storage · apps and integrations · 7,500 AI credits per seat monthly |
| Business AI | $29/seat/mo · ~$19.43/seat/mo annual | Everything in Pro plus team capacity planning, Gantt and timeline charts, time tracking, advanced dashboards, permissions and access control, central billing, priority support and 15,000 AI credits per seat |
| AI Employee | $49/mo | Separate tier positioned above the seat-based plans |
⚠️ Motion has no free tier at any level, so evaluating it costs money. That is a real difference in this category — Reclaim.ai offers a genuinely useful free-forever tier for one user and YouCanBookMe a free booking page.
⚠️ AI credits are metered per seat — 7,500 a month on Pro and 15,000 on Business. Teams leaning heavily on automation may find the Pro allowance binding and end up on Business for the credits rather than the team features. Model your automation volume rather than treating the allowance as notional.
Annual billing saves roughly 33%, bringing Pro AI to about $12.73 a seat and Business AI to about $19.43. For a five-person team that is roughly $1,166 a year on Business annual against $1,740 on monthly billing.
Ratings breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Ease Of Use | 4.0/5 | Powerful, though trusting autonomous scheduling takes adjustment |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Broadest here — calendar, tasks, projects, docs and chat in one engine |
| Value | 4.0/5 | ⚠️ Good rates annually, undercut by having no free tier to evaluate on |
| Support | 4.0/5 | Solid, with priority support at the Business tier |
Pros
- One engine schedules calendar, tasks and projects together
- Tasks are placed into time you actually have, and reshuffle automatically
- Complete scheduling engine included at Pro without restrictions
- AI docs, notes, chat and writer bundled from the entry tier
- Unlimited storage on every paid plan
- Annual billing saves roughly 33%
- Team capacity planning, Gantt charts and time tracking on Business
- Apps across iOS, Android and desktop
Cons
- ⚠️ No free tier at any level — evaluation costs money
- ⚠️ AI credits metered at 7,500 per seat on Pro, 15,000 on Business
- Heavy automation users may need Business for credits, not features
- $19 monthly is well above Reclaim’s $12 for calendar defence alone
- Trusting an autonomous scheduler requires a genuine behaviour change
- AI Employee at $49 sits awkwardly outside the seat-based structure
- Broader scope means more to learn than a single-purpose tool
Who it’s for
- People whose calendar and task list constantly contradict each other
- Teams wanting scheduling, tasks and projects from one system
- Anyone who has abandoned a task manager for being unrealistic
- Teams needing capacity planning and Gantt charts on Business
Who it’s not for
- Anyone who needs to evaluate free before paying — use Reclaim
- Users who only want calendar defence, which Reclaim does for less
- Teams who prefer deliberate manual planning — that is Sunsama
- Heavy automation users who have not modelled their credit consumption
Best use cases
- Having tasks automatically scheduled into genuinely available time
- Watching the day reshuffle when a meeting lands on planned work
- Planning team capacity with Gantt and timeline charts on Business
- Tracking time against tasks without a separate tool
- Running docs, notes and chat alongside the schedule in one system
Integrations
Motion connects to the major calendar, communication and productivity tools, with integrations included from the Pro tier. The calendar connections matter most, since the autonomous engine can only schedule around commitments it can see — a Motion instance missing one of your calendars will confidently plan work into time that is already booked, which is the failure mode to guard against during setup.
How it compares
| Motion | Reclaim.ai | Sunsama | Chili Piper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid | $12.73/seat/mo annual | $10/seat/mo annual | $17/mo annual | $1,250/mo (Routing & Scheduling) |
| Free tier | ⚠️ None | ⭐ Free forever, 1 user | ⚠️ None — by design | No |
| Scope | ⭐ Calendar, tasks, projects, docs | Calendar defence | Daily planning ritual | Lead routing |
| Scheduling model | ⭐ Autonomous | Autonomous | Deliberate and manual | Meeting booking |
| AI metering | ⚠️ 7,500-15,000 credits/seat | AI agents by tier | Included | n/a |
| Platform fees | None | None | None | ⚠️ $225/mo on some products |
| Best fit | AI scheduling plus tasks | AI calendar defence | Daily planning ritual | Inbound lead routing |
Reclaim and Sunsama prices are vendor-published and verified 2026-09-20. Motion, Chili Piper and YouCanBookMe figures are from published third-party reporting where the vendors’ own pages could not be retrieved in full.
Alternatives
Reclaim.ai is cheaper at $10 a seat annually, focused purely on calendar defence, and has a genuinely free forever tier for solo users. Sunsama takes the opposite philosophical approach — a deliberate daily planning ritual rather than autonomous scheduling. YouCanBookMe handles booking pages. Chili Piper is a revenue-team tool for inbound lead routing.
Recent changes
Motion’s pricing runs Pro AI at $19 per seat a month, or approximately $12.73 per seat billed annually at $152.76 a year, delivering the complete autonomous scheduling engine without restrictions — AI calendar and meetings, AI tasks and projects, AI docs and notes, AI chat and writer, unlimited storage, iOS, Android and desktop apps, integrations and 7,500 AI credits per seat each month. Business AI is $29 per seat a month, or approximately $19.43 billed annually, adding team capacity planning, Gantt and timeline charts, time tracking, advanced dashboards, permissions and access control, central billing, priority support and 15,000 AI credits per seat. A separate AI Employee tier is priced at $49 a month. Paying annually saves roughly 33%. There continues to be no free plan at any level. For a five-person team, Business works out at approximately $1,166 a year on annual billing against $1,740 on monthly.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Motion cost?
Pro AI is $19 per seat a month, or about $12.73 billed annually, with 7,500 AI credits per seat. Business AI is $29 a seat, or about $19.43 annually, with 15,000 credits, adding capacity planning, Gantt charts and time tracking. A separate AI Employee tier is $49 a month. Annual billing saves roughly 33%.
Does Motion have a free plan?
No, at any level. Evaluating Motion costs money, which is a genuine disadvantage in this category — Reclaim.ai offers a free-forever tier for one user with 5 AI agents, focus time and habits, and YouCanBookMe offers a free booking page indefinitely.
How do Motion’s AI credits work?
They are metered per seat — 7,500 a month on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI. For typical use the Pro allowance is generous, but teams leaning heavily on automation may find it binding and move to Business for the credits rather than for capacity planning or Gantt charts. Model your automation volume rather than treating the allowance as notional.
Motion or Reclaim.ai?
Motion if you want calendar, tasks and projects run by one engine, so work is scheduled into time you actually have. Reclaim.ai if the problem is purely calendar defence — protecting focus time, habits and buffer — since it does that for $10 a seat annually and has a free tier Motion does not offer.
What does Motion’s Business AI tier add?
Team capacity planning, Gantt and timeline charts, time tracking, advanced dashboards, permissions and access control, central billing, priority support, and double the AI credits at 15,000 per seat. At about $19.43 a seat annually against Pro’s $12.73, it is worth it for teams needing capacity visibility — or for anyone consistently exhausting Pro’s credit allowance.
Is Motion’s autonomous scheduling reliable?
It works well provided it can see everything. The engine schedules around commitments it knows about, so an instance missing one of your calendars will confidently plan work into time that is already booked. Connect every calendar during setup — that is the single most common cause of the tool appearing unreliable when the logic is actually sound.
Motion or Sunsama?
They are philosophically opposed. Motion schedules autonomously and reshuffles for you; Sunsama asks you to plan each day deliberately, treating the ritual as the value. Choose Motion if you want the system to decide, Sunsama if you want to decide with structure. Neither offers a free tier, so this one comes down to how you actually prefer to work.
Sources
- Motion — pricing with the monthly/annual toggle showing 33% off (read 2026-09-30)
- Motion — homepage (read 2026-09-30)
- Motion — product pages linked from pricing (read 2026-09-30)
Compiled from public sources; last verified 2026-09-30. Pricing is subject to change — verify with the vendor. Ratings reflect editorial opinion based on documented capabilities, published pricing, and aggregated user reviews. DigiJaws does not accept payment for review placement or rating.
Motion Review (4/5): Pricing & Verdict (2026). DigiJaws, 2026. https://digijaws.com/reviews/motion-review/