Motion pricing

About

Motion (usemotion.com) is an AI productivity platform that combines an AI-managed calendar, task and project management, docs/wiki, and AI writing into a single app. Its pitch is automated planning — Motion auto-schedules tasks and meetings around your calendar — positioned against tools like Asana, ClickUp, Monday, and Wirke (the pricing page carries direct “vs” comparison links to all four). The headline marketing claim is “Finish 137% more work.”

The product is sold in two AI plans, Pro AI and Business AI, available on two tracks: an Individuals track for solo professionals and a Teams track billed per seat. Each plan ships a fixed monthly pool of AI credits (7,500 for Pro AI, 15,000 for Business AI) with metered overage priced per 100 credits, so the model is a per-seat subscription with a usage-based credit layer on top.

There is no free tier — only a risk-free trial (“Start your free trial. Risk free. Cancel anytime.”). No enterprise or contact-sales tier is shown on the pricing page; all prices, credit allotments, and overage rates are publicly listed.

Pricing summary : per-seat AI plans with a monthly credit pool and metered overage

Motion uses a per-seat subscription with a usage-based credit layer, billed across three dimensions:

1. Per-seat plan fee (annual): On the Teams track, Pro AI is $19/seat/mo and Business AI is $29/seat/mo. On the Individuals track the same plans cost $29/mo (Pro AI) and $39/mo (Business AI). Monthly billing runs roughly 50% higher — Teams Pro AI $29/seat/mo, Business AI $49/seat/mo; Individuals Pro AI $49/mo, Business AI $69/mo.
2. Included AI credit pool: Each plan includes a fixed monthly credit allotment — 7,500 credits on Pro AI, 15,000 credits on Business AI — used by Motion’s AI features.
3. Per-credit overage: Once the pool is exhausted, extra credits are metered per 100. Rates scale with the effective seat price: as low as 19¢/100 (Teams Business AI annual) up to 65¢/100 (Individuals Pro AI monthly).

What makes this different: the same two plans are sold at materially different prices depending on the Individuals-vs-Teams toggle and the monthly-vs-annual toggle, and the overage rate floats with whichever price you land on — so the metered cost of an AI credit is cheapest exactly where the seat is cheapest.

Pricing by product

Motion AI (Individuals plans)

Motion AI (Teams plans)

Sales motions across products: PLG / self-serve for every tier — Pro AI and Business AI on both tracks are sign-up-and-pay with a risk-free trial. No sales-led or contact-sales tier is exposed on the pricing page.

AI credit pool and overage rates

Every plan includes a fixed monthly credit pool; overage is metered per 100 credits and the rate depends on which plan + billing toggle you select.

Hidden costs : seat fees, AI-credit overage, and the annual-commit trap

The $19/seat headline understates what AI-heavy teams actually pay, because the included credit pool is finite and the true entry point is an annual commitment, not the displayed monthly number. Two real-world examples.

A 10-seat Teams Business AI deployment with heavy AI usage

A 10-person team on Business AI (Teams, annual) gets 15,000 credits per seat per month. If the team runs AI-heavy workflows and burns through an extra 20,000 credits per seat (auto-planning, notetaking, writer, agents), the per-100 overage at 19¢ adds up across the whole team.

The metered AI-credit overage ($380) exceeds the entire seat-license cost ($290) here, so for AI-heavy teams the credit pool — not the seat — is the dominant cost driver.

A solo professional who buys monthly instead of annual

The “Save 33%” toggle hides a roughly 50% monthly premium; the advertised $29 only applies if you commit to a full year up front — which is exactly the auto-conversion that drives Motion’s refund complaints (see Strengths & weaknesses).

Want to estimate your own Motion bill? Use the Motion pricing calculator to model your monthly cost based on seat count, plan, billing period, and AI-credit overage. For more on how finite credit pools create unpredictable AI bills, see our deep dive on bill shock.

Pricing evolution : from a flat calendar extension to AI-credit metering

Motion’s pricing has been repackaged more than almost any company in this corpus — from a single $19/mo calendar Chrome extension, through AI task management, to per-seat AI plans, with a three-month detour into a six-tier “AI Employees” credit grid that it walked back.

Cadence

Tracked range: 2021-06–2026-01. Quarters not listed above were verified stable (0 price changes, 0 SKU additions).

Notable changes

• 2021-06 — Launched as a single $19/mo (annual) calendar Chrome extension; no task management or AI on the pricing page.
• 2022-06 — Repackaged as AI task/project management; Individual $34/mo monthly ($19 annual), Team $20/user monthly ($12 annual).
• 2022-09 — Raised a $13M Series A led by SignalFire (angels: Sam Altman, Michael Seibel, Cyrus Mistry), per the TechCrunch coverage of the round.
• 2024-08 — Added an Enterprise tier, SOC 2 Type 2, and a “Save up to 44%” annual toggle while holding seat prices.
• 2025-06 — Pivoted to per-seat Pro AI / Business AI and reframed the whole product around AI applications.
• 2025-09 — Switched the entire page to a six-tier “AI Employees” credit grid ($29–$599/mo, 1,000–250,000 credits).
• 2025-09 — Raised $60M at a $550M valuation (Series B/C/C2; Scale Venture Partners led the C), per SignalFire’s announcement.
• 2025-12 — Reverted to Pro AI / Business AI with explicit 7,500 / 15,000 credit pools and per-100 overage — the structure live today.

The “AI Employees” experiment and reversal in detail

For roughly three months (Wayback snapshots 2025-09 through 2025-11), Motion abandoned its simple two-plan structure and rebuilt the pricing page around an “AI Employees” narrative — six tiers metered explicitly on credits:

• AI Workplace — $29/mo, 1 seat, 1,000 credits/mo ($2.90 per 100 overage)
• AI Employees Starter — $49/mo, 1 seat, 10,000 credits (49¢/100)
• AI Employees Light — $99/mo, 3 seats, 25,000 credits (40¢/100)
• AI Employees Standard — $299/mo, 10 seats, 100,000 credits (30¢/100)
• AI Employees Plus — $599/mo, 25 seats, 250,000 credits (24¢/100)
• Enterprise — Custom

The grid foregrounded named AI agents (AI Executive Assistant, AI Sales Representative, AI Customer Support, AI Recruiter) and a “Build your own AI Employee” option — a much more aggressive agentic-pricing bet that lined up with the $60M raise to “build the agentic work suite.” By the 2025-12 snapshot the experiment was gone and Motion had reverted to the simpler Pro AI / Business AI structure, keeping only the credit-pool mechanic. The episode is a rare, fully-documented case of a vendor testing and walking back a metering model in a single quarter.

What’s unique : credit metering on an AI calendar, with a floating overage rate

1. Credit metering bolted onto a horizontal productivity app. Most companies in this corpus that meter on credits are developer or infrastructure tools; Motion applies a credit-based billing layer to an end-user productivity app — a calendar, task manager, and docs tool. The AI features (auto-scheduling, notetaking, writer, agents) consume from a fixed monthly pool (7,500 / 15,000 credits), making it a hybrid seat-plus-usage model where the metered unit is “AI work done” rather than API tokens.

2. The overage rate floats with the seat price. The same plan is sold at different effective prices across the Individuals/Teams and monthly/annual toggles, and the per-100-credit overage rate moves with it — from 19¢ (Teams Business AI annual) up to 65¢ (Individuals Pro AI monthly). So the metered cost of an AI credit is cheapest exactly where the seat is cheapest, an unusual coupling that rewards the same buyers twice for committing.

3. AI auto-scheduling as the core value metric. Motion’s pitch isn’t “more features” but “Finish 137% more work” — the product automatically schedules and re-prioritizes your tasks around your calendar dozens of times a day. The credit pool meters that automation, so unlike a flat per-seat tool, heavy AI users pay more, aligning price with the planning work the AI actually performs.

4. A repackaging-prone pricing surface. Few vendors have changed their pricing page as often as Motion — calendar extension → AI task manager → per-seat AI → “AI Employees” credit grid → back again — all inside four years. This makes Motion an unusually clear case study in how an AI-native company hunts for its value metric in public, including a usage-based pricing migration it tried and reversed in one quarter.

Strengths & weaknesses

Billing UX : Individuals/Teams and monthly/annual toggles, central billing

• Individuals / Teams toggle — a top-of-page switch that swaps the entire plan set in place (without changing the URL); the Teams track exposes per-seat pricing while Individuals shows flat per-user pricing for the same two plans.
• Pay monthly / Pay annually (Save 33%) toggle — billing-period switch; annual is the displayed default and cuts the seat price by roughly a third versus monthly.
• Central Billing — a Business-AI (Teams) feature for billing all seats together, called out as a Business-only line in the feature comparison.
• AI credit allotment + per-100 overage — each plan shows its included monthly credit pool (7,500 / 15,000) and an explicit per-100-credit overage rate, so metered usage cost is surfaced at purchase time rather than hidden.
• Risk-free trial — “Start your free trial. Risk free. Cancel anytime.” is the entry point; every plan card’s CTA is “Try for free” rather than a direct buy.

Strategic wins : decisions that aligned price with AI value

1. Adding a credit layer turned AI cost from a margin risk into a revenue line.

When AI features became the product, Motion faced the classic problem that heavy users could erode margins on a flat per-seat plan. By introducing a prepaid credit pool with metered overage, Motion made AI consumption a billable dimension rather than an unbounded cost. This is the textbook entitlement-to-credits shift that LLM-native products are converging on.

2. Keeping the core plans fully public lowered acquisition friction.

Motion exposes every price, credit allotment, and overage rate on a single page with a self-serve “Try for free” CTA — no sales call required for Pro AI or Business AI. For an SMB and individual audience, this PLG-first transparency is the right value-metric and packaging choice: buyers can self-qualify and convert without a quote, which is essential at a $19–$39 price point.

3. Walking back the “AI Employees” grid showed willingness to correct a mis-priced bet.

The six-tier credit grid (2025-09) was an aggressive agentic-pricing experiment that Motion reversed within a quarter, returning to the simpler two-plan structure. While the churn is a weakness, the willingness to abandon a complicated structure that wasn’t converting is a discipline many vendors lack — it kept the buying decision legible. Motion’s broader arc is a live example of an AI company searching for its usage-based value metric in public.

Areas to improve : fixing the trial trap and the four-way price maze

1. Fix the trial-to-annual auto-conversion that drives refund complaints.

Motion’s most damaging signal is a recurring Trustpilot pattern: trials silently convert to a full annual charge billed immediately, and refund requests are refused on policy. The fix is straightforward — default trial conversion to monthly (not annual), require an explicit opt-in to the annual commit, and send a pre-charge reminder before the trial ends. Clear pre-billing communication is a known lever for reducing bill shock and churn.

2. Collapse the four-way price matrix into a clearer comparison.

The same two plans appear at four different effective prices (Individuals/Teams × monthly/annual), each with its own overage rate. A buyer can’t easily tell what they’ll pay. Motion should add a single comparison view (or a calculator embed) that shows the effective per-seat and per-credit cost side by side, so the right usage metric and commitment choice are obvious rather than buried in toggles.

3. Add credit-usage alerts and a visible balance to prevent overage surprises.

With a finite monthly credit pool and floating overage rates, users can blow past their allotment without warning. Motion should surface a live credit balance and configurable usage thresholds and alerts — notify at 75% and 100% of the pool — so the metered cost stays predictable and overage is a deliberate choice, not a surprise on the invoice.

Key takeaways

1. Meter the AI, not just the seat. When AI features become the product, a flat per-seat plan turns heavy users into a margin problem; Motion solved it by adding a credit pool with metered overage. Other teams adding AI should price the AI work itself, not assume the seat fee will cover it.
2. A floating overage rate can reward commitment twice. Motion’s per-credit price drops with the seat price, so annual Teams buyers get the cheapest seat and the cheapest credits. Coupling the metered rate to the commitment tier is a subtle way to deepen the annual-upgrade incentive.
3. Public pricing is a PLG asset at low price points. For a $19–$39 product serving SMBs and individuals, exposing every price and overage rate enables self-qualification and self-serve conversion. Gating core plans behind sales would kill the funnel at this ASP.
4. Repackaging has a trust cost. Motion changed its pricing structure five times in four years; each reset confuses returning buyers and complicates ROI planning. Search for your value metric, but stabilize once you find it.
5. Billing UX is part of pricing. Motion’s transparent rate card is undermined by a trial-to-annual auto-charge that generates refund complaints — proof that how you bill (conversion defaults, pre-charge reminders) matters as much as what you charge.

UBP implications

1. Credit pools are migrating from infra tools to end-user apps. Motion shows that the prepaid-credit-plus-overage model — long standard for API and infra products — now works for horizontal productivity software once AI consumption becomes the cost driver. Expect more consumer-facing SaaS to adopt credit metering as AI features generalize.
2. The value metric for AI productivity is “work done,” not tokens. Motion meters credits tied to AI planning, scheduling, and writing rather than raw model tokens, abstracting infrastructure cost into a user-legible unit. This buyer-facing abstraction is where usage-based AI pricing is heading.
3. Pricing experiments are increasingly public and reversible. Motion’s three-month “AI Employees” grid and its reversal demonstrate that AI-native companies now iterate on metering models in production. The discipline to walk back a mis-priced structure quickly is becoming a core pricing competency.

Sources

• Motion pricing page (accessed 2026-06-08)
• Motion home / product (accessed 2026-06-08)
• Motion blog — “$60M at $550M valuation to build the agentic work suite” (accessed 2026-06-08)
• Motion blog — “$13M Series A to automate team project management” (accessed 2026-06-08)
• Motion Help Center — refund FAQs (accessed 2026-06-08)

Bottom line

Motion is one of the clearest case studies in this corpus of an AI-native company hunting for its value metric in public — from a $19/mo calendar extension to AI task management to a per-seat credit-metered suite, with a three-month “AI Employees” detour it reversed in a single quarter. The current model is sound: a transparent per-seat fee plus a usage-based AI credit pool that aligns price with the planning work the AI performs. What holds it back isn’t the rate card but the billing UX — a trial-to-annual auto-charge that turns a transparent price into a refund complaint.

Want to compare Motion against other AI productivity and credit-metered pricing? Browse the pricing blueprint.

Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis

Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.

Current structure: Individuals + Teams tracks

Jun 2026

Pro AI and Business AI sold on two tracks — Individuals ($29 / $39 per mo annual) and Teams ($19 / $29 per seat/mo annual) — each with a monthly AI credit pool (7,500 / 15,000) and per-100 overage. 33% annual discount; risk-free trial only, no free tier.

Reverted to Pro AI / Business AI with explicit credit pools

Dec 2025

Motion dropped the 'AI Employees' grid and returned to Pro AI ($19/seat/mo) and Business AI ($29/seat/mo), now with explicit AI credit pools (7,500 / 15,000 credits) and per-100 overage (25¢ / 19¢). This is the structure live in 2026.

'AI Employees' credit-grid experiment

Sep 2025

For roughly Sep–Nov 2025 the whole page switched to a six-tier 'AI Employees' grid metered on credits: AI Workplace $29/mo (1,000 credits, $2.90/100 overage), Starter $49 (10,000), Light $99 (25,000), Standard $299 (100,000), Plus $599 (250,000), and Enterprise (Custom), with named AI agents (Sales Rep, Recruiter, Customer Support).

Pivot to per-seat Pro AI / Business AI

Jun 2025

Motion relaunched as Pro AI ($19/seat/mo) and Business AI ($29/seat/mo), plus Enterprise (Custom) with 'Unlimited AI Usage'. The product was reframed entirely around AI apps (Task Planner, Project Manager, Notetaker, Writer, Workflows Generator). Annual 'Save 33%' replaced the prior 44% framing.

Renamed to Business Standard / Business Pro with user brackets

Feb 2025

The three tiers became Individual ($19, 1 user), Business Standard ($12/user, teams under 15), and Business Pro (Contact us, 15+ users). Still flat per-seat pricing with no AI credit pool.

Added Enterprise tier and SOC 2

Aug 2024

Prices held at $19 (Individual) and $12/user (Team annual), but the page added an Enterprise 'Contact us' tier for 25+ person teams, SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, and a 'Save up to 44%' annual toggle. Still flat per-seat — no credit metering yet.

Repackaged as AI task and project management

Jun 2022

Motion repositioned around automated scheduling/planning with A.I., task and project management. Individual was $34/mo monthly ($19 annual); Team was $20/user/mo monthly ($12 annual) with central billing and a '40% discount per member'.

Launch as a $19/mo calendar extension

Jun 2021

Motion's pricing page sold a single Pro plan at $19/mo (billed annually) — a Chrome-extension calendar with scheduler templates, a tab manager, and a distraction blocker. A Team plan was 'reach out for pricing' (5+/10+ employees). No task management, no AI mentioned.