TODO for AI
vs 
Motion
By Marcell Havlik, founder of TODO for AI · Updated
AI calendar and task manager that schedules your work for you, credits included per seat. Here is where each one wins, with numbers, and who should pick which.
| Fact | Motion | TODO for AI |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | Web, desktop, mobile | Web, desktop, mobile, CLI, IDE (Zed, JetBrains, VS Code), voice |
| Models | Vendor managed | Any provider: Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Ollama |
| Source | Closed | Edge + CLI public |
| Starts at | $19/seat | Free |
Key takeaways
- Models. Motion model choice: Vendor managed. TODO for AI runs any provider, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok or a local Ollama model, on one plan, and one model can review another's work.
- Benchmark. TODO for AI scored 95.1% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with Opus 5.5 (own harness, 77/81 tasks, refused tasks excluded, 2026-09-30; not an official leaderboard submission).
- Price. Motion pricing: Pro AI $19 per seat per month billed annually with 7,500 AI credits, Business AI $29 per seat with 15,000. Monthly billing costs more; annual is advertised as saving 33%. Free trial, no free tier. TODO for AI has a free plan (Claude Sonnet only), then Starter $20, Pro $100 or Ultra $200 a month with any provider included.
- Where the work happens. Motion gets one task done inside your calendar. TODO for AI is one board your team and agents work through together, on your own PC, a cloud VM and your logged-in Chrome.
- Who should pick which. Pick Motion if your problem is prioritising and scheduling, not capacity. Pick TODO for AI if you want the tasks done, not scheduled.
Motion
TODO for AI
Any providerWe are not competing for the same job
Motion gets the task done.
TODO for AI organises the whole company’s work.
Motion answers one question: how do I get this task done, inside your calendar? So do the others — Cursor inside the editor, Claude Code in one person's session, Lindy by asking its assistant.
We answer a different one: where does the work live? One board per project, and a project for each part of the company — engineering, marketing, ops, finance, one per client. Your colleagues work on it. So do your agents, as many as you want to run, each with its own model, tools and permissions. Items carry the people who worked them and the agent that ran them, and the board filters by person, so what the company has in flight is one screen instead of a Slack thread.
That is not a team plan bolted onto an AI tool. It is the product. The agents are how items get closed; the board is what the company runs on.
What Motion is, and where it stops
Motion solves a narrow problem properly. It takes your tasks, deadlines and meetings and lays them out across a calendar that reshuffles itself when reality changes, which is more useful than it sounds for anyone whose list is longer than their week. The AI writer, docs and meeting features sit around that core.
It is a planning tool, not an execution one. Every item it schedules still gets done by a person: Motion decides that Tuesday at 10 is when you write the proposal, and then you write the proposal. There is no agent with a shell, a browser session or a repo, so the work itself never moves off your plate.
People whose problem is deciding when to do the work rather than doing it.
Three reasons Motion users look elsewhere
The output is a better calendar. The tasks on it are still yours to do, one at a time, by hand.
There is a trial, but no free plan underneath it: once it ends the board costs $19 a seat, and that headline price assumes annual billing.
No shell, no machine, no logged-in browser. An item saying "update the pricing page" stays an item until a human opens the CMS.
Six dimensions that decide it
Motion 11/30TODO for AI 29/30How does Motion compare to TODO for AI, feature by feature?
| Feature | Motion | TODO for AI |
|---|---|---|
Persistent cloud VM An always-on machine. Files, logins and sessions survive between runs. | No | Yes |
Model choice | Vendor managed | Any provider |
Cross-vendor review Review GPT output with Claude, or the other way around. | No | Yes |
Drives your real browser Chrome extension plus cloud browsers. | No | Yes |
Business tasks, not only code SEO, email, ads, social, CRM via CLI tools. | Calendar, tasks, docs | Yes |
Any CLI as an integration | No | Any binary |
Voice control | No | Yes |
People and agents on one board Colleagues and agents work the same list. Items show who contributed and which agent ran them; filter the board by person. | Tasks only, no agents | Yes |
Many agents, each configured Each agent gets its own model, prompt, tools and permissions. Pick which one takes an item. | Assistant, not autonomous | Unlimited, per task |
Projects for the whole company Engineering, marketing, ops, finance: separate projects and agents, one team and one bill. | Projects and workspaces | Unlimited, shared |
Team roles, pooled usage | Per seat + credits | Roles + pooled |
Tool permissions | Basic | Allow, approve, block |
Open runtime | No | Edge + CLI public |
Same ladder, different meter
Seats with AI credits included, 7,500 on Pro and 15,000 on Business per seat per month, then $0.19 to $0.25 per 100 extra. Free trial, but no permanent free tier.
One pool priced in dollars of model cost, spendable on any vendor. Session and weekly windows pace it, and a 1.3-1.5x plan multiplier applies, so a $20 plan is about $15 of list-price API. Team seat prices go into one shared pool.