Motion is an AI work app that plans your calendar for you: it schedules tasks into open time by deadline and priority, reshuffles the plan when meetings move, and adds AI projects, docs, meeting notes, search and workflows. There is no free plan, only a free trial. Pro AI costs $19 per seat a month billed yearly or $29 monthly with 7,500 AI credits, and Business AI costs $29 yearly or $49 monthly with 15,000 credits plus capacity planning, Gantt timelines, time tracking and permissions. Extra AI credits cost 25 cents per 100 on Pro AI and 19 cents on Business AI.
Reviewed by EdGrows·Updated Oct 2, 2026This analysis is based on documentation, public user reports, and vendor materials — not yet on our own hands-on testing. How we rate
Motion started with one idea. Give it your tasks, deadlines and meetings, and it decides when you'll do each task, slotting work into the gaps in your calendar. When a meeting moves, it rearranges everything. In 2026 that planner sits at the centre of a broader work app, with AI projects, docs, meeting notes and workflows built around it. The pricing has moved to two AI plans sold per seat.
Annual billing selected, October 2, 2026. Monthly billing costs $29 and $49 per seat.
| Pro AI | Business AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Per seat, billed yearly | $19 a month | $29 a month |
| Per seat, billed monthly | $29 | $49 |
| AI credits | 7,500 | 15,000 |
| Extra credits | 25 cents per 100 | 19 cents per 100 |
| Adds | AI chat, projects, tasks, calendar, meetings, docs, writer, task planner, apps | Capacity planning, dashboards, Gantt timelines, time tracking, permissions, central billing, onboarding |
There is no free plan. A free trial covers the full product and can be cancelled in one click, after which the cheapest way in is Pro AI on annual billing.
Everything else in Motion is available elsewhere, often for less. The auto-scheduler is the reason to pay. You add a task with a deadline, a duration and a priority. Motion finds time for it among your meetings and plans the day around your deadlines. When a meeting is added or a task runs long, the plan rebuilds itself rather than leaving a pile of overdue items. For people whose problem is not knowing what to do next, or never finding time for deep work between calls, that changes the shape of a week.
The rest of the AI layer builds on the same data. The AI project manager generates projects from a description and keeps statuses current. The meeting notetaker records calls and turns action items into tasks. A docs assistant drafts and organizes notes, search covers docs and tasks as well as conversations, and the workflow builder turns written procedures into repeatable steps.
Scheduling itself isn't the expensive part; generative features draw on monthly AI credits, 7,500 on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI. Heavy users of the AI chat, writer or workflow builder can buy more. Business AI's extra credits are cheaper per 100, which matters for teams that lean on generation. Motion publishes the allowance and the top-up price but not a cost per action, so the first month is the time to watch usage.
For a team, the per-seat price adds up quickly: five people on Pro AI cost $95 a month on annual billing and $145 on monthly. Business AI earns its premium for managers. Capacity planning shows who is overloaded. Timelines and Gantt charts show dependencies. Time tracking compares plans with reality, and permissions control who sees what. Motion's own comparison pages set it against Asana, ClickUp, Monday and Wrike, which tells you where it wants to compete.
The trial only tells you something if Motion has real work to plan. Connect your main calendar on day one and add every task you're carrying, with a realistic duration and deadline. Set your working hours before judging the schedule. Then follow the plan for a few days instead of overriding it at every turn. The point is to see whether handing over the "what next" decision frees up time.
Two things tend to decide the verdict. The first is trust: if you keep dragging tasks back to where you would have put them, you're paying for a planner you don't use. The second is cost across a team, since everyone who needs to see or update tasks takes a seat. That's where cheaper project tools with free guests, such as Asana, pull ahead.
Reclaim is the closest rival on the scheduling side, adding focus time and habits to Google or Outlook calendars at a lower price. Asana and ClickUp Brain are stronger project tools with AI added, better for large teams that plan work rather than calendars. Notion AI is the better home for documents and wikis. Sunsama suits people who would rather plan each day by hand with gentle guidance.
Motion is worth trying if your calendar is the bottleneck, with lots of meetings and deadlines and too little time to decide what comes next. Use the trial on a real, busy week. If you don't trust the plan enough to follow it, the subscription is hard to justify.
No. Motion offers a free trial that you can cancel in one click, and then you need a paid plan: Pro AI at $19 per seat a month billed yearly or $29 monthly, or Business AI at $29 or $49. People who only want free AI scheduling can look at Reclaim's free tier or the scheduling built into Google Calendar and Outlook.
Pricing is per seat. A five-person team on Pro AI pays $95 a month billed yearly or $145 monthly; on Business AI, which adds capacity planning, Gantt timelines, time tracking and permissions, the same team pays $145 yearly or $245 monthly. Annual billing saves 33%.
An allowance for Motion's AI features such as the AI chat, writer, docs assistant and workflow builder: 7,500 credits on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI. When they run out, additional credits cost 25 cents per 100 on Pro AI and 19 cents per 100 on Business AI, so heavy AI users on Business pay less per credit.
Notion is the better workspace for writing, wikis and flexible databases, with Notion AI on its Business plan. Motion is the better planner: its core job is turning tasks and deadlines into a scheduled calendar that rebuilds itself when plans change. Teams that live in docs pick Notion; people whose problem is fitting work around meetings pick Motion.
For people who spend real time each week deciding what to work on when, often yes, because the auto-scheduling replaces that planning. For people with few meetings or simple to-do lists it's expensive next to free task apps, and the trial is the right way to find out which group you're in.
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