Pricing Guide

Motion Pricing: What to Expect

Motion prices like the DTC tooling it is — tiered SaaS, scaled to the size of the ad account it reports on. The real question isn't the sticker; it's whether post-spend reporting is the layer your creative process is actually missing. Here's how to think about both.


How Motion's pricing model works

Motion connects to your ad accounts and rebuilds the data around creative, so subscriptions are typically shaped by the spend and accounts it watches, plus seats and reporting features; entry tiers are self-serve-ish and bigger books of spend get demo-priced. Numbers move around, so confirm current tiers on their site — the durable part is the structure: you pay in proportion to the spend being analyzed, which is fair, and which also means the subscription must save media to justify itself.

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The other half of the loop: pre-spend screening runs each cut through a neural model and ranks the batch before the ad account ever bills you.

The break-even question

A reporting layer earns its fee when two things are true: enough spend that finding winners faster moves real money, and a human who works the reports weekly — usually the creative strategist. If either is missing, you're paying for prettier charts on data Meta and TikTok already expose; a disciplined naming system gets you most of the way free until volume justifies automating it. The full option map: Motion alternatives.

What reporting can't do at any price

Every insight in a creative analytics dashboard was purchased with spend — the losers billed you while the data accumulated. Reporting can't rank the five cuts that haven't launched yet; that's a pre-spend question. Screening each cut costs about $2.45 (plans from $49/month, packs from $45, up to 8 free credits), returns in minutes, and needs no ad-account connection — it scores the creative itself against 76 public top performers, on any finished ad, filmed, designed, or AI-generated.

The stack that makes both cheaper

Pre-screen the batch so only contenders enter the account; let reporting verify with real spend and feed the learnings back into briefs. Screening cuts the media wasted on discoverable losers, which makes whatever you pay for analytics easier to justify — and if you're below reporting-subscription volume, screening plus native platform breakdowns is a complete loop on its own. The math side-by-side: pre-testing vs A/B testing.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Motion cost?

Motion sells tiered SaaS subscriptions for creative analytics, typically shaped by ad spend under management, connected accounts, and seats, with higher tiers sold through demos. Check their site for current numbers — tiering changes — and price it against your monthly ad spend, since that's what the reporting de-risks.

When does a creative analytics subscription pay for itself?

When your ad spend and creative volume are high enough that faster insight into winners and losers saves more media than the subscription costs — and when someone on the team actually works the reports weekly. Below that volume, the platform's native breakdowns plus a disciplined spreadsheet cover most of it free.

Do I need creative analytics AND pre-spend testing?

They're two ends of one loop: pre-testing ranks creative before it spends (about $2.45 per test at PreTestAds), analytics verifies what actually happened with real budget. Teams with only analytics pay the platform to find their losers; teams with both send fewer losers in and learn faster from what ran.

By Chris Krecicki · Published