You sit down to price Motion for your team, and the first number you find is $19 a seat. It’s on the pricing page. It’s in every roundup that quotes Motion. It’s the figure you carry into the budget conversation. Then somebody signs up on a monthly card, the charge lands at $29, or $49, and the conversation starts over.
Nothing on Motion’s page is hidden. The billing toggle just defaults to “Pay annually (Save 33%)”, so the annual rate is what a visitor sees first, and the annual rate is the one that travels. Here’s the whole 2026 picture: both billing periods, both plan tiers, the separate rates that apply when you’re buying for yourself rather than for a team, and what the AI credit allowance on each tier actually is.
Motion Pricing at a Glance
| Product | Price | Billing model |
|---|---|---|
| Catch | $99/month, flat | One flat subscription, voice calls included, no per-call fees |
| Motion Pro AI (team) | $29/seat/month, or $19/seat/month billed annually | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance |
| Motion Business AI (team) | $49/seat/month, or $29/seat/month billed annually | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance |
| Motion Pro AI (individual) | $49/month, or $29/month billed annually | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance |
| Motion Business AI (individual) | $69/month, or $39/month billed annually | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance |
Two things decide your invoice: which of those four boxes you land in, and whether the AI credit allowance baked into each seat covers the way your team actually works. The rest is detail.
The $19 Figure Is the Annual Rate, Not the Monthly One
This is the most misquoted number in the category, so it’s worth being blunt.
Motion Pro AI for teams is $29 per seat per month if you pay month to month. It’s $19 per seat per month if you commit to a year up front. Business AI for teams runs $49 per seat per month month to month, and $29 per seat per month billed annually.
Since the pricing page loads with the annual toggle already selected, $19 and $29 are the two figures on screen when you arrive. Build a budget on $19, then sign up without committing to twelve months, and your real per-seat cost is 53% higher than what you planned around.
You’ll also run into figures around $13 a seat quoted in places. That number doesn’t appear anywhere on Motion’s pricing page, at either billing period, on either plan. Ignore it.
Team Seats and Individual Seats Are Priced Differently
The second thing the headline rate doesn’t tell you: Motion charges more when you’re buying a single seat for yourself than when you’re buying seats for a team.
| Month to month | Billed annually | Annual cost per seat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro AI, team | $29 | $19 | $228 |
| Pro AI, individual | $49 | $29 | $348 |
| Business AI, team | $49 | $29 | $348 |
| Business AI, individual | $69 | $39 | $468 |
Read the middle two rows together. An individual on Pro AI pays exactly what a team member pays for Business AI. So a founder pricing Motion for herself is looking at $49 a month on a monthly card, not $19, and that’s before she’s decided whether she needs the Business tier’s team features at all.
It also means the “Save 33%” label on the toggle undersells itself. Going annual on Pro AI for teams saves about 34%. On Business AI for teams it’s closer to 41%, and on the individual Business AI plan it’s about 43%. The trade is the one every annual plan asks for: a year of commitment for software you’ve used for a few weeks.
What Pro AI Includes
Pro AI is the entry tier and the cheaper of the two plans Motion sells. The seat covers AI Chat, AI Projects and Tasks, AI Calendar, and AI Docs, plus 7,500 AI credits per month.
Around that sit the pieces that make it usable day to day. A Travel Time feature blocks a buffer of 15, 30 or 45 minutes before or after an event, which matters if your calendar mixes video calls with physical meetings. A Flexible Hours setting handles time off, travel, or a week that doesn’t look like your normal week. Meetings support Google Meet and Zoom natively, along with custom links or a physical location. And there’s a dedicated forwarding address, [email protected], so an email you forward becomes a scheduled task without you retyping it.
Worth checking calendar coverage against your own stack. Motion connects Google, Microsoft and Apple iCloud calendars, with iCloud supporting free and busy events.
What Business AI Adds
Business AI is the team tier. It adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards, Gantt charts, time tracking and central billing, and the credit allowance doubles to 15,000 AI credits per month per seat.
Put it this way. The step up costs $10 a seat a month on annual billing, or $20 a seat month to month, and you’re buying two things for it: the team-level views, and twice the AI credit allowance. Worth working out which of the two you’re actually paying for, because if nobody in your organization opens a capacity dashboard, the credits are the whole of the upgrade.
How the AI Credit Allowance Works
Every Motion seat comes with a monthly AI credit allowance, and the two tiers differ by exactly double: 7,500 credits a month on Pro AI, 15,000 credits a month on Business AI. The allowance is attached to the seat, so eight people on Business AI have 15,000 credits each.
That allowance is the part of the bill that isn’t a flat number. The seat cost is fixed and easy to budget; how far the included credits go depends on how much AI work your team actually puts through the product. Worth confirming that fit with Motion directly before you size a rollout, rather than inferring it from the pricing page.
What a Team of Eight Pays in a Year
Per-seat numbers stop being useful the moment you have a team. Same eight people, priced four ways.
| Configuration | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Pro AI, billed annually | $152 | $1,824 |
| Pro AI, month to month | $232 | $2,784 |
| Business AI, billed annually | $232 | $2,784 |
| Business AI, month to month | $392 | $4,704 |
The two middle rows are identical, which is the clearest way to see what the billing toggle is really worth. Eight people on Motion’s cheaper plan without an annual commitment costs exactly the same as eight people on the fuller plan with one, so the annual commitment is worth as much to the budget as the gap between the two tiers.
What the Seat Price Buys
A Motion seat is a subscription to a product that spans calendar, tasks, projects and docs. Pro AI covers AI Chat, AI Projects and Tasks, AI Calendar and AI Docs; Business AI adds the team layer on top of that. Around it sit the practical pieces: travel-time buffers, flexible hours, native Google Meet and Zoom conferencing, and the forwarding address that turns an email into a task.
That’s the shape of a per-seat productivity subscription. You’re buying software that each person on your team logs into and operates, and you’re buying it one seat at a time, so the bill moves with headcount.
Catch prices a different thing: not a seat for each person to work in, but the administrative work itself getting handled.
How Catch Prices the Same Problem
Catch is $99 a month, flat. There is one plan and one price, with no credit meter, no tier to climb, and no separate line for phone calls. When Catch rings a hotel to sort out a late checkout, or calls a restaurant to hold a table, that’s included. No per-call fees.
Catch is an AI Executive Assistant, so what you’re paying for is the administrative work getting handled rather than a place to organize it yourself. It runs on your calendar and inbox and works through the channels you already use: Slack, email, text message, iMessage and phone. It spots a conflict forming on your calendar and reaches out to the other party to move the meeting, rather than flagging it for you. It triages your inbox and surfaces the one email that actually needs you. It sends the replies it has enough context to send. It books business travel end to end, flights, hotels and ground transport, and keeps managing the trip after the booking, including rebooking when the trip moves.
Catch applies judgment rather than running rules you configured. Early on it checks with you before it acts, then takes on more as it learns how you work. It self-identifies as AI on calls. It weighs what it already knows about you against what a given decision actually needs, and comes back to you when context isn’t enough to answer on its own. Onboarding is under three minutes: sign up, connect Gmail or Outlook, start talking to it.
There’s a 10-day free trial, and the flat $99 doesn’t move after it.
For scale, the other way to get this work off your plate is hiring for it, and a US-based executive assistant runs $120,000 to $180,000 a year all in. The point of that comparison isn’t that anyone gets replaced. It’s that the traditional admin load is the part that can be handed over, which frees an assistant to grow into the operational and in-person work that actually needs a person.
Motion and Catch on Cost
| Catch | Motion | |
|---|---|---|
| Headline price | $99/month, flat | From $19/seat/month annual, $29/seat/month monthly (Pro AI, team) |
| Billing model | One flat subscription | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance |
| Annual commitment needed for best rate | No, $99 is the only rate | Yes, 53% to 77% more without one |
| AI credits included | Not applicable | 7,500 on Pro AI, 15,000 on Business AI, per seat per month |
| Security | SOC 2 Type 2, audited by EY, plus CASA Tier 2 | SOC 2 Type II |
| What the price buys | The admin work handled end to end | A platform your team operates |
These two aren’t really competing for the same line in a budget, and the raw numbers make that obvious. $99 buys one person’s admin work getting done. $19 a seat buys each person on a team their own workspace for tasks, projects, docs and calendar. If your team already lives in Asana or Notion, Catch integrates with both rather than asking you to move off them, so this isn’t necessarily an either/or decision.
Which One Fits
Catch is the right call if:
- You want the administrative work handled, not organized
- A predictable $99 a month beats a per-seat bill that moves with headcount
- You need someone to actually reach out, reschedule, reply and book, rather than surface that it needs doing
- You want outbound phone calls handled without a separate charge
- You travel for business and want flights, hotels and ground transport booked and then managed
- You don’t want to commit to a year to get a sensible price
- You want to be running in three minutes, not configuring workflows
Motion is worth the seat if:
- Everyone on the team wants their own workspace for tasks, projects, docs and calendar, and the per-seat maths works at your headcount
- Details like travel-time buffers, flexible hours and forwarding an email to turn it into a task match how your days actually run
These are different purchases rather than a better and a worse one. Motion sells a seat to each person on the team. Catch sells one flat subscription and takes the administrative work itself, so for an executive whose problem is the volume of that work, Catch is the fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Motion cost per month?
For teams, Pro AI is $29 per seat per month month to month, or $19 per seat per month billed annually. Business AI is $49 per seat per month month to month, or $29 billed annually.
Is Motion really $19 a month?
Only on an annual commitment, and only on a team seat. $19 is the annually billed rate for Motion Pro AI for teams. Month to month, the same seat is $29.
What does Motion cost for one person?
Individual rates run higher than team rates. Pro AI is $49 a month month to month, or $29 billed annually. Business AI is $69 a month month to month, or $39 billed annually.
What is the difference between Motion Pro AI and Business AI?
Business AI adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards, Gantt charts, time tracking and central billing, and doubles the monthly credit allowance from 7,500 to 15,000 per seat.
How do Motion’s AI credits work?
Each seat comes with a monthly AI credit allowance: 7,500 credits on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI, per seat per month. Business AI’s allowance is exactly double Pro AI’s.
Is Motion cheaper than Catch?
Per seat, yes. Motion starts at $19 a seat annually against Catch’s flat $99 a month. They’re buying different things: Motion is software your team operates, Catch is the administrative work being handled for you. Against the $120,000 to $180,000 a year an executive assistant costs in the US, $99 is the number that matters.
Is Motion secure enough for a mid-market company?
Motion holds SOC 2 Type II and states so on its security page. It collects your name, email, calendar events and contact list to function. Catch is SOC 2 Type 2, audited by EY, and also holds CASA Tier 2 as a Google Verified App.
Which is better for an executive, Motion or Catch?
Catch. An executive’s problem is rarely that the calendar is badly arranged. It’s the volume of email, scheduling, coordination, calls and travel underneath it, and Catch handles that work end to end for one flat $99 a month. Motion is a different purchase: a per-seat workspace for tasks, projects, docs and calendar that each person on the team operates themselves.
