Motion pricing (2026): plans, credits, and what you'll actually pay

Motion, motionapp.com, is creative analytics software for teams that run paid-media campaigns. Motion analyzes paid ads across four major platforms and turns the results into reports, AI tags, and creative tasks. Motion's Starter plan starts at $750 a month for up to $50,000 in monthly ad spend. The Pro plan starts at $1,200 a month, and the Growth plan has custom pricing. Motion still publishes an older page that lists Starter at $250 a month, one-third of the live price, while the live pricing page shows no free plan.

In this article, we talk about Motion's pricing plan tiers and usage limits.

Key takeaways

• Motion starts at $750 a month, with an upgraded plan at $1,200 a month.

Prices and limits were verified through Motion’s live pricing page, its older LLM information page, and its Terms of Service.

Motion Creative Analytics at motionapp.com

Motion Creative Analytics connects paid advertising accounts and analyzes which ads receive spend. Its social coverage includes Meta and LinkedIn; its video coverage includes TikTok and YouTube. Motion says 2,100 teams use the platform and its customers analyze $14 billion in media spend each year.

The $750 live price versus the stale $250 page

Motion’s live pricing page lists Starter at $750 a month and Pro at $1,200. Growth begins above $125,000 in monthly analyzed ad spend and requires a quote.

Motion’s LLM-facing page was last updated in November 2025. It still lists Starter at $250 a month, leaves the Pro price unpublished, and places Growth above $250,000 in monthly ad spend.

The live Starter price is three times the older figure. The Free and Agency cards document previous public offers, but neither card appears on the live pricing page.

How Motion meters usage without credits

Motion does not publish a credit schedule. Three parts of the service govern the bill:

• Analyzed ad spend: Starter covers up to $50,000 a month. Motion assigns each account to a plan based on the ad spend it analyzes each month.

• Dedicated infrastructure: Starter includes an always-on Motion AI system that runs on a dedicated virtual machine.

• Feature gates: Pro adds attribution, Slack video QA, and onboarding. Growth adds solutions engineering, advanced security, and private Slack support.

Starter includes unlimited seats and unlimited ad accounts, so neither count provides a useful budgeting unit. Motion’s terms require customers to upgrade when use exceeds the capacity of their plan. The Order Form determines how Motion bills excess use.

Motion plan pricing in 2026

Starter ($750/month)

The Starter plan covers brands that analyze no more than $50,000 in monthly ad spend. Motion charges $750 a month and includes a dedicated virtual machine, unlimited seats, and unlimited ad accounts.

Starter includes these tools:

• AI tags, tasks, and creative analytics

• Ad leaderboards, routines, and Slack briefs

• Benchmarks, full data, and MCP access

Motion also provides in-app chat and reports that run daily or weekly. Starter does not include Northbeam or Google Analytics attribution. It also omits personalized onboarding, which begins with Pro.

Pro ($1,200/month)

The first dollar above the $50,000 boundary places a brand in the Pro plan under Motion’s live plan language. Pro costs $1,200 a month and includes everything in Starter.

Pro adds:

• Northbeam and Google Analytics attribution

• Unlimited guests who can only view the account

• First-pass video QA in Slack

Motion also includes personalized onboarding. Pro does not include dedicated solutions engineering, advanced security requirements, or private Slack support.

Growth (contact sales)

The Growth plan covers teams that analyze more than $125,000 in monthly ad spend. Motion does not publish its price.

Growth includes a dedicated customer success manager and solutions engineering. It also provides closed-loop pipelines that connect performance signals to launched ads. Growth is the only published tier with advanced security and private Slack support.

What you’ll actually pay

Motion charges the same list price throughout each published range. Software therefore consumes a smaller percentage of media spend as spending approaches the top of a plan.

A brand spending $10,000 a month pays $750 ÷ $10,000 = 7.5% of its media budget for Motion. At Starter’s upper limit, Motion costs 1.5% of analyzed media spend.

Pro costs $1,200 ÷ $100,000 = 1.2% at $100,000 in media spend. Pro’s effective cost falls below 1% of media spend at the top of its published range.

A brand crossing $50,000 in monthly ad spend

A brand that moves from $50,000 to $50,001 in monthly analyzed ad spend crosses the published Starter boundary. Motion publishes no grace range or per-dollar overage between Starter and Pro.

The displayed monthly bill therefore moves from $750 to $1,200. Motion does not publish a credit charge or a price for each additional dollar of analyzed spend. Its terms require an upgrade and leave any excess billing to the Order Form.

A full year at the displayed monthly prices

Starter costs $5,400 less than Pro over 12 months at displayed rates. Twelve months of Pro cost $1,200 × 12 = $14,400.

Motion’s public pricing page does not display an annual discount. Its terms define monthly, annual, and custom plans, so an annual Order Form may contain terms that do not appear on the public page.

Cancellation, renewal, and the Order Form

Motion’s terms create different obligations for each commitment:

• Monthly plan: The subscription renews monthly. Motion requires notice at least 30 days before the next billing date. Customers who give notice later remain responsible for the upcoming balance.

• Annual plan: The subscription renews for another year without 30 days’ notice. Customers who cancel during the initial term owe the remaining fees.

• Custom plan: The Order Form defines the term. Early cancellation leaves the remaining balance payable unless Motion agrees otherwise in writing.

Motion does not refund prepaid fees when a customer cancels. Motion provides a prorated refund when it terminates for convenience or when a customer terminates for Motion’s material breach.

The terms set a 60-day window for billing disputes. Taxes are extra. Late balances accrue interest at 1.5% a month, compounded monthly, and Motion may add collection costs.

The free plan and trial question

Motion’s live pricing page does not show a free plan. Its homepage says a trial requires no credit card, while the older LLM page lists a free plan with one connected ad account.

Motion’s terms still define Free Services and free trials. Customers who do not buy the same services before a trial ends permanently lose the data entered during that trial. The live pages do not publish the trial’s duration or a current free-plan allowance.

Motion and Creatify in the same budget

Motion and Creatify cover different parts of an advertising workflow. Motion analyzes connected ad accounts, while Creatify produces ads and can execute campaigns through Performance Agent.

Motion Pro costs 30.8 times Creatify Starter and 12.1 times Creatify Pro. Those ratios compare cash outlay rather than equivalent features.

Creatify Agent researches a brand, writes scripts, and produces finished ads with avatars. Performance Agent connects advertising accounts, launches campaigns, and takes optimization actions. A team that uses Motion for analytics and Creatify for production pays for both subscriptions.

Why analytics and production can stack

Motion’s Creative Benchmarks 2026 report analyzed $1.29 billion in Meta spend across 578,750 creatives. Motion defined a winner as a creative that received at least 10 times the account’s median spend and at least $500. About 5% met that definition, while 55% of spend went to those winners.

Motion’s MUD\WTR case study reports that the brand cut the share of ad spend paid to external vendors from 50–60% to 5–10%. Motion attributes that shift to the brand producing more creative internally. The benchmark measures how Meta allocated spend, while the case study reports a change in the brand’s production mix.

Who each Motion plan is right for

• Advertisers below $10,000 a month: The $750 Starter price equals 7.5% of a $10,000 media budget. The trial provides a lower-cost way to inspect Motion, while Creatify covers finished-ad production from $39.

• Brands spending $20,000 to $50,000: Starter fits the published spending range and includes unlimited accounts, reports, and MCP access.

• Teams spending $50,000 to $125,000: Choose the Pro plan when you need Northbeam or Google Analytics attribution, even before your analyzed ad spend forces the upgrade.

• Agencies: Unlimited seats and ad accounts support agency collaboration, while Motion provides current agency terms during demos. Motion provides current agency terms only through its demo process.

• Enterprises above $125,000: Growth fits companies that require solutions engineering, closed-loop pipelines, or advanced security.

Creatify provides finished-ad production without Motion’s connected-account analytics. Creatify and Motion can sit together when a team wants ad production and a separate layer for analyzing connected accounts.

FAQs

How do I figure out which Motion plan I’ll be charged for?

Motion assigns your plan based on the monthly ad spend it analyzes. Up to $50,000/month maps to Starter ($750/mo); above that (and up to the next boundary) maps to Pro ($1,200/mo); Growth applies above $125,000/month and requires a sales quote.

Does Motion use credits or seat-based pricing for motionapp.com?

No. Motion Creative Analytics on motionapp.com doesn’t publish a credits schedule or seat charges. Your bill is primarily driven by the monthly analyzed ad spend, plus any excess-use charges set in the Order Form if you exceed plan capacity.

Why does Motion have a $250/month page but the live price shows $750?

The $250 figure appears on an older LLM-facing page (last updated in Nov 2025). The current live pricing page lists Starter at $750/month and Pro at $1,200/month, with no free plan shown.

Is there an annual discount if I pay for 12 months?

Not publicly. At the displayed monthly prices, 12 months would cost $9,000 for Starter ($750 × 12) or $14,400 for Pro ($1,200 × 12). Growth pricing requires a quote.

What’s the renewal/cancellation risk if I want to stop using Motion?

Give Motion at least 30 days’ notice before renewal to avoid owing the next monthly balance, per the Motion Order Form/Terms referenced in the post.