The closest Motion alternative for reports on your own ad accounts is Superads, from $125 a month billed yearly for up to $100k of monthly ad spend, where Motion charges $750 for up to $50k. Atria from $129 billed annually adds a competitor library and MCP. Segwise suits app teams on many ad networks, from $250. GoMarble adds AI agents from $139. Playhead does a different job: it reads one ad from a link, a competitor's included, and names the second of every hook, beat and claim, free for 50,000 credits every 4 weeks.
Key takeaways
- Motion costs $750 a month for up to $50k of monthly ad spend and $1,200 above it. All 3 plan cards end in Book a demo, and the header offers a free trial.
- 5 of the 8 pricing pages set the plan by monthly ad spend. At $50k of spend the entry price runs from $125 at Superads to $750 at Motion, 6 times apart.
- Superads covers up to $100k of monthly ad spend for $125 a month billed yearly, twice Motion's limit for a sixth of the price.
- 2 of the 8 send every plan to a call: Motion and Hawky. Hawky prints no price at all.
- Playhead is the only tool here that reads a competitor's ad from a link with no ad account, and it names the second of every beat.
What is on this page and on no other
Most pages on this subject repeat the same advice and the same figures. These are the facts this one produced itself, and how each one was made.
5 of the 8 pricing pages set the plan by monthly ad spend: Motion, Superads, Atria, Segwise and GoMarble. Foreplay says it has no variable pricing based on ad spend, Hawky prices per brand, and Playhead reads no ad account.
For a brand that spends $50,000 a month on ads, the 5 spend-priced tools start at $125 (Superads, yearly), $129 (Atria, annually), $139 (GoMarble), $250 (Segwise, by application) and $750 (Motion). Motion is 6 times the lowest.
Motion's pricing page shows a Start free trial button in its header, and all 3 of its plan cards end in Book a demo, on 9 October 2026.
2 of the 8 send every plan to a call: Motion with Book a demo on 3 of 3 cards, and Hawky with Talk to sales on 3 of 3 and no figure anywhere on the page.
Across the 4 public teardowns on Playhead, 393.2 seconds of ads, Playhead counted 146 cuts and 19 claims. 4 of 4 work with the sound off and 3 of 4 show the product by 1.5 seconds.
What happened to Motion
Nothing shut down. On 9 October 2026 Motion sells Starter at $750 a month for up to $50k of monthly ad spend, Pro at $1,200 above $50k, and Growth above $125k on a call. Seats and ad accounts are unlimited on every plan, and every plan card ends in Book a demo. [1]
Motion is creative analytics for paid social. It connects to your ad accounts, pre-watches, tags and analyses every creative you have run, and reports spend, ROAS and the rest beside each one, with routines in Slack and MCP access.
How we chose these tools
- Every price is the lowest tier on the vendor's own pricing page, read on 9 October 2026. Where a page prints only a yearly rate, the entry says so.
- A tool is on this list when it does one job a Motion customer pays for: reports on the creatives of your own accounts, or the analysis of one ad.
- Every entry names at least one thing the product does not do, ours as well.
- Playhead is fifth, because most people who leave Motion want reports on their own ad accounts, and Playhead does not read an ad account.
The shortlist
Every price is the lowest published tier, read off the vendor's own pricing page. The date it was read is at the foot of this page.
| Tool | From | Best for | Watches the video |
|---|---|---|---|
Superads
Ad reporting for paid social, with AI tagging, an inspiration library and an assistant that answers questions about the connected accounts.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Unlimited reports, boards and workflows
- AI tagging of the creatives in connected accounts
- Superads AI, which answers questions about the data
- An inspiration library
Stronger at
- Up to $100k of monthly ad spend for $125, twice Motion's $50k limit for a sixth of its price
- A 14 day trial on the plan card, with no demo call first
Where it stops
- $125 is the yearly rate. The page says the plan is billed monthly after the trial and does not print that monthly figure.
- The pricing page names no MCP and no way to analyse an ad outside a connected account.
Atria
Ad research, account analytics and ad generation in one product, with an MCP server that brings the ad data into Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Connect 5 ad accounts and analyse $500K of spend a month
- Follow 50 brands on Core, with AI insights from Plus
- Radar, which Atria calls a 24/7 AI strategist
- AI creative tags, comparison reports and custom attribution windows
- MCP on every plan, and 1,200 REST API calls a month on Core
Stronger at
- Covers $500K of monthly ad spend on the entry plan, 10 times Motion's Starter limit
- A competitor library and your own accounts in one plan, where Motion's reports cover your own accounts
Where it stops
- $129 is the annual rate, and the monthly figure is not printed in the page text.
- 5 seats on Core, then $20 a seat, where Motion's seats are unlimited on every plan.
Segwise
AI creative analytics and tagging across ad networks and MMPs, with creative generation, fatigue tracking and competitor insights on every plan.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- AI creative tagging and analytics
- 15 or more network connections and MMP integrations
- Creative fatigue tracking
- Competitor insights and pre-flight testing
- Unlimited seats and view-only users
Stronger at
- Every feature on every plan. The plans differ only in ad spend and AI tokens
- Network and MMP connections, which app teams need and Motion's pricing page does not name
Where it stops
- The $250 plan is for teams that apply and spend under $50,000 a month. The open plan starts at $499.
- 500 AI tokens a month on both published plans, and no MCP named on the pricing page.
GoMarble
AI agents for paid media that audit accounts, break down creatives and research competitors, and from the Operator plan change campaigns with your approval.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Creative breakdowns and performance audits
- Competitor research and scheduled reports
- Agents that launch, edit and pause campaigns with approval, from $399
- MCP for Claude and ChatGPT, and a Slack integration from Operator
Stronger at
- Agents that act on the account with approval, which Motion's pricing page does not offer
- $139 a month on the monthly rate for the same $50K of spend that Motion's Starter covers
Where it stops
- 1 seat on Copilot. A team of 5 needs Operator at $399.
- Copilot agents are read-only and cannot change live campaigns.
Playhead
OursPlayhead watches one ad, or up to 10, and says how it is built, second by second: the hook, every beat with its start and length, every claim at the second it is legible, and the cuts counted off the file.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Paste a link from the Meta Ad Library, TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, or upload a file
- The same fields for every ad: hook, beats, claims, cuts, first face, first product, and whether it works muted
- Up to 10 ads in one set, stacked into one comparison
- An MCP server on every plan, the free one included
Stronger at
- Reads a competitor's ad from a link with no ad account: 146 cuts and 19 claims counted across its 4 public teardowns
- No ad spend limit, because no account is read, and the lowest paid price on this list
Where it stops
- Playhead connects to no ad account, so it holds no spend, ROAS or CPA. It says how an ad is built, never how much it sold.
- No weekly report of an account and no alerts. It reads the ads you give it.
Foreplay
A swipe file, an ad search engine, a brief builder and a competitor tracker, with Lens for the analytics of your own Meta and TikTok ads.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Lens, which connects Meta and TikTok ad accounts and builds reports
- Spyder, which tracks every ad a competitor launches
- A swipe file and a search over a community library of saved ads
- Briefs built from saved ads
- MCP and an API from Workflow
Stronger at
- No price step for ad spend. The page says there is no variable pricing based on ad spend
- Competitor tracking and a swipe file beside the analytics, in the same plan
Where it stops
- Lens covers 1 brand on Workflow. 10 brands need Agency at $459 a month.
- $20 for each user after the 5 included, where Motion's seats are unlimited.
Hawky
Creative and performance dashboards with element-level tagging, competitor tracking and autonomous agents that manage bids and budgets.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Element-level tagging of every hook, frame and CTA
- A creative dashboard and a performance dashboard
- Competitor tracking and fatigue alerts
- A copilot for questions in plain English, from Ask
- Agents for bids, budgets and pauses, on Auto-pilot
Stronger at
- Unlimited users on every tier, as Motion has
- Meta and Google Ads in one view from the first tier
Where it stops
- No price on the pricing page. A team that has to approve a budget first cannot get a figure from the website.
- Every tier starts with a sales call, as every Motion plan does.
What Motion costs on 9 October 2026
$750 a month up to $50k of ad spend, and a demo before any plan.
Motion sells 3 plans, and the plan is set by how much you spend on ads, not by how much you use Motion. Starter is $750 a month for up to $50k of monthly ad spend. Pro is $1,200 above $50k. Growth starts above $125k and has no published price. Seats and ad accounts are unlimited on every plan, and MCP access is on Starter.
Two things on the Motion pricing page send people to look for an alternative. A brand that spends $5,000 a month pays the same $750 as a brand that spends $50,000. And every plan card ends in Book a demo, although the header offers a free trial.
| Tool | A month | Ad spend it covers | Billing on the card |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superads Professional | $125 | Up to $100k | Yearly, $1,500 |
| Atria Core | $129 | Up to $500K | Annual |
| GoMarble Copilot | $139 | Up to $50K | Monthly |
| Segwise Startup | $250 | Under $50K, by application | Monthly |
| Motion Starter | $750 | Up to $50k | Monthly |
What 8 pricing pages say, counted
We read every page on one day and counted what each one prints.
What 8 pricing pages print, counted on 9 October 2026
Most Motion alternatives are cheaper versions of the same job. Superads, Atria, Segwise and GoMarble all connect to your ad accounts and report on your own creatives. 4 of them price by ad spend, as Motion does. The difference is the limit: $125 at Superads covers twice the spend that $750 at Motion covers.
One job is not on Motion's pricing page at all. A competitor's ad is not in your ad account, so a tool that reads only connected accounts cannot report on it. Playhead reads the ad from its link. Across its 4 public teardowns it counted 146 cuts in 393.2 seconds of ads, and 4 of 4 work with the sound off.
- Public Playhead teardowns counted
- 4
- Claims quoted with their second
- 19
- Product on screen by 1.5 seconds
- 3 of 4
- Call to action legible
- 2.0 to 6.3 s
The verdict
Leave Motion when your brand spends less than $50,000 a month on ads and pays $750 for it. Superads at $125 billed yearly covers $100k of spend with a 14 day trial and no demo. Atria at $129 billed annually adds a competitor library and MCP. Segwise fits app teams on 15 or more networks, and GoMarble adds agents that act with approval. None of the 6 account tools reads an ad you do not own. Playhead does that part, from a link and free for 50,000 credits every 4 weeks, so keep one account tool and add Playhead for competitors.
Common questions
What is the best Motion alternative?
Superads is the closest for reports on your own ad accounts: $125 a month billed yearly for up to $100k of monthly ad spend, against Motion's $750 for up to $50k. Atria at $129 billed annually adds a competitor library and MCP. For a competitor's ad, which no connected account holds, Playhead reads it from a link, free for 50,000 credits every 4 weeks.
How much does Motion cost?
On 9 October 2026 Motion costs $750 a month for up to $50k of monthly ad spend and $1,200 a month above $50k. The Growth plan, above $125k of spend, has no published price. All 3 plan cards end in Book a demo.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Motion?
Yes. Superads starts at $125 a month billed yearly, Atria at $129 billed annually, GoMarble at $139 billed monthly and Segwise at $250 by application. Each one covers at least $50,000 of monthly ad spend, which is the limit of Motion's $750 plan.
Is there a free Motion alternative?
None of the account analytics tools on this list is free. Superads offers a 14 day trial, Foreplay and GoMarble 7 days, and Segwise a trial with no card. Playhead has a free plan of 50,000 credits every 4 weeks, but it reads ads from links and holds no account data.
Can Motion analyse a competitor's ads?
Motion's pricing page describes reports on the creatives of the accounts you connect, and a competitor does not connect their account to your workspace. Atria and Foreplay add a competitor library. Playhead reads a competitor's ad from its link and names the second of every beat and claim.
