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The Stack / Productivity
Motion
02 DecisionsYes for the chronically overbooked — Motion's core trick, automatically rescheduling your task list around meetings as the day shifts, genuinely reduces planning overhead once you trust it. It demands full commitment to its system; half-adopted, it's an expensive to-do list.
The job in the stack
The auto-scheduling seat: tasks, projects, and meetings compressed into a calendar the AI continuously replans.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pro AI | $19/mo | $12.73/mo annual; 7,500 AI credits/mo, no free tier — 7-day trial |
| Business AI | $29/user/mo | $19.43/user annual; 15,000 credits, team workload views |
Pricing verified 2026-08-13. Plans change — the source of truth is Motion's own pricing page.
Models & versions
- Motion AI schedulingContinuous auto-replanning of tasks around calendar reality; AI workflows on credits
- Motion workspace + AI EmployeesNow bundles docs, sheets, meeting notes, and AI chat; 'AI Employees' assistants handle email triage and meeting prep on the same credit pool
The honest read
What works
- +Auto-rescheduling absorbs the daily replanning humans do badly
- +Deadlines drive the schedule — at-risk work surfaces before it's late
- +Team tier makes workload visible across people, not just projects
What breaks
- −No free tier — a 7-day trial decides a real subscription
- −All-in adoption required: partial use breaks the scheduling logic
- −Annual pricing is fine; monthly at $19–29 is steep for a calendar layer
Use it for
- →Operators juggling meetings-plus-deep-work weeks that never survive Monday
- →Small teams that miss deadlines from invisible workload, not laziness
- →People who will actually put every task into one system
Skip it if
- ×Your calendar is simple — a task list plus discipline is free
- ×You won't feed it everything — partial data gives worse-than-manual plans
Questions operators ask
?Is Motion worth it over a normal calendar?
Only if replanning is a real tax on your week. If you spend 20+ minutes a day shuffling tasks around meetings, Motion refunds that time. If your schedule is stable, you're paying for a solution to someone else's problem.
What changed
- Freshness sweep: verified directly on usemotion.com/pricing — no change. Pro AI $19/seat/mo ($12.73 annual, 7,500 credits), Business AI $29/seat/mo ($19.43 annual, 15,000 credits), still no free tier. Overage credits confirmed at 25c/100 on Pro and 19c/100 on Business. Several aggregator pages list Pro at $29 monthly; the vendor page does not agree with them, so we hold at $19.
- Re-verified: pricing unchanged (Pro AI $19/mo, $12.73 annual; Business AI $29/user, $19.43 annual; 7,500/15,000 credits; 7-day trial, no free tier). Scope note added: Motion has widened from scheduling into a work hub — docs, sheets, meeting notes, AI chat, and 'AI Employees' assistants for email triage and meeting prep.
- Added to the stack (auto-scheduling seat). Verified: Pro AI $19/mo ($12.73 annual), Business AI $29/user ($19.43 annual), 7-day trial, no free tier.
Give Motion a job
The auto-scheduling seat: tasks, projects, and meetings compressed into a calendar the AI continuously replans.
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