5 Sunsama Alternatives in 2026, Compared on Real Prices

Sunsama costs $25 a month if you pay monthly, and there is no free plan. A 14-day trial, then the card. That one line is why most people end up reading a page like this one.

Then they read a list telling them Akiflow is the cheaper replacement. Month to month, it is not. Akiflow Pro is $34 a month against Sunsama's $25. The $19 figure those lists print is Akiflow's annual rate, and it exists only if you agree to a year.

That is the problem with this whole search result. Several of the pages ranking for it are published by the alternatives themselves, and they set an annual price next to Sunsama's monthly price and call it cheaper. Price is the main reason people leave, so mixing the billing basis reverses the answer.

I read five pricing pages on 28 September 2026: Sunsama, Akiflow, Morgen, Motion and Reclaim. I have not used Sunsama and I have not run these tools side by side, so treat none of this as a hands-on review. It is a price and purpose comparison with the billing basis written next to every number.

One finding before the table, because it does not survive being buried. Reclaim.ai has a plan that is free forever. The pages selling you a $19 alternative are not keen to mention that the free option belongs to somebody else.

How I compared them

I asked five questions of every tool. The first two are the ones this search result keeps collapsing into one.

• What does it cost if you pay monthly? This is the number that matters to someone who is already suspicious of the category and wants an exit that takes one click.
• What does it cost on an annual commitment? Everything here is cheaper on a year. Four of the five print the annual rate. Motion does not.
• Free plan, trial, or trial with a card? Only one of the five is free forever, and only one asks for a card before the trial starts.
• What is the tool actually for? A guided daily routine, automatic scheduling, one merged calendar-and-task view, and defended focus time are four different products, and all four show up on lists like this one as if they were interchangeable.
• Who is it wrong for? Every section below says it.

The numbers came off each vendor's own pricing page on 28 September 2026 and nowhere else. Promotions are labelled as promotions. Where a page did not print a figure I have left the gap open; filling it would be the error this post exists to fix: Motion's annual per-seat rate is the one case, and inventing it would be exactly the error this post exists to fix.

Ellie, Saner.AI, Flowsavvy, Todoist, Notion and Super Productivity all come up in this category, and some of them write the comparisons ranking for this search. I did not read their pricing pages, so they get named here and nothing else. They carry no numbers and no table row.

Quick comparison

Prices are what each vendor's own pricing page showed on 28 September 2026. The two price columns are not interchangeable: every figure in the right-hand column requires a commitment to a year. Reclaim and Motion price per seat, so multiply by headcount. Sunsama Pro, Akiflow Pro and Morgen Pro are individual plans. Gravity is in private alpha.

Why every other list calls Akiflow cheaper

Rank the paid plans by what they charge somebody who pays month to month, and the order is not the one you have been reading.

• Reclaim Starter, $12 per seat a month
• Motion Pro AI, $19 per seat a month
• Sunsama Pro, $25 a month
• Morgen Pro, $30 a month
• Akiflow Pro, $34 a month

One caveat on that ladder: Reclaim and Motion price per seat, while Sunsama, Morgen and Akiflow are individual plans, so headcount can reorder it.

Now rank the same tools on an annual commitment.

• Reclaim Starter, $10 per seat a month
• Morgen Pro, $15 a month
• Akiflow Pro, $19 a month, billed as $228 for the year
• Sunsama Pro, $20 a month

Motion is not on this ladder. Its page offers 33% off for annual billing without printing the per-seat rate, so there is no number to rank.

Sunsama is third of five when you pay monthly and the dearest of the four published annual rates. Put those two lists together and the honest version of the advice falls out. Paying monthly, only Reclaim and Motion undercut Sunsama. Committing to a year, nearly everything does, including Sunsama's own yearly plan.

The first decision is whether you are willing to pay for twelve months of a productivity app up front. Say yes and you have four cheaper options, one of which is Sunsama's own yearly plan. Say no and the shortlist is two tools long, and one of the two is free.

1. Reclaim.ai: the only free plan in this comparison

Reclaim's Lite plan is free forever, which makes it the answer for anyone whose complaint about Sunsama is the $25 itself. Not a trial. A plan that stays free.

What the free plan actually covers

• One user, one calendar sync, one scheduling link
• Scheduling range capped at a week
• Five AI agents

Those are real limits, and the one that will eventually push you off Lite is the week of scheduling range. Anything you plan further out than next week lives outside what Lite will manage for you.

The harder question is whether Reclaim replaces the part of Sunsama you were paying for. It defends time rather than running a routine. Tasks get placed and moved around your calendar so that focus blocks survive contact with other people's invitations. There is no guided end-of-day review waiting for you. If the ritual was the reason you paid, this covers half the job and leaves the other half to you.

A limited-time 30% discount for new users was showing on Starter and Business when I read the page. Treat that as a promotion that happened to be running. The figures below are the list prices.

Best for

One person who wants their focus time protected and would rather not pay for one at all.

Pricing

As of September 2026:

• Lite, free forever
• Starter, $12 per seat a month billed monthly or $10 per seat a month billed annually, up to 10 seats
• Business, $18 per seat a month billed monthly or $15 per seat a month billed annually, up to 100 seats
• Enterprise, $22 per seat a month, annual only, with SSO and SCIM

Free tier

Yes, and it is the only one on this page.

Verdict

Start on Lite this week and find out what breaks first. If it is the one-week scheduling range, Starter is the upgrade, and an AI agent for Google Calendar scheduling covers what else can sit on the same calendar.

2. Motion: hands the scheduling decision to software

Motion suits the reader whose real objection is the time the planning ritual takes every day. The software builds tomorrow for you, then rebuilds it when the day goes sideways and the things you planned did not happen.

Two self-serve plans, separated by team machinery:

• Pro AI, $19 per seat a month. 7,500 AI credits a month, with additional credits at $0.25 per 100.
• Business AI, $29 per seat a month. 15,000 AI credits at $0.19 per 100, and the team machinery: capacity planning, dashboards, Gantt, time tracking, permissions.

Motion's trial does not ask for a card. The pricing toggle offers to pay annually and says it saves 33%, and the annual per-seat figure was not printed in the page text, so that is the whole of what I can tell you about it. Anyone quoting a precise annual number for Motion has calculated it, which is a different thing from having read it.

Automatic scheduling is its own market with its own contenders, and the Clockwise alternatives comparison is the right place for that side of the decision. What matters here is the unit: Motion bills per seat, so $19 is one person and a five-person team is five times that, every month.

3. Morgen: one view of every calendar and every task

Morgen puts your calendars and your task lists on the same screen and helps you block time across the lot with AI assistance. Morgen also ranks its own "11 Sunsama Alternatives" article for this query, which tells you how much it wants this particular customer.

The billing toggle doubles the price

Morgen Pro is $30 a month month to month, or $15 a month billed yearly, and the page labels that as saving 50% compared to monthly. Same product at twice the price, and one toggle decides which of the two you pay. That makes Morgen the second most expensive monthly price in this comparison, behind Akiflow's $34, and the second cheapest option of the lot if you pay for a year.

The Team plan is $25 per seat a month billed monthly with a two-seat minimum, or $10 per seat a month billed yearly, which the page calls a 60% saving.

The offers around the edges matter more than usual on this page:

• A 14-day free trial with no credit card.
• Thirty days to ask for your money back.
• A 15% discount advertised for switching from Motion, Reclaim, Fantastical or Sunsama.
• Students, academics and nonprofits get 25% off permanently.

That switcher discount is aimed precisely at the person reading this page, which is either convenient or a little on the nose depending on your mood. It is a promotion. Check it is still running before you build a budget on it.

Best for

Someone juggling several calendars who wants tasks in the same window and will sign up for a year.

Pricing

Pro $30 a month billed monthly, $15 a month billed yearly. Team $25 per seat a month billed monthly with a minimum of two seats, $10 per seat a month billed yearly. As of September 2026.

Free tier

No. A 14-day trial without a card, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Verdict

On a yearly plan this is the strongest value here for a planner you drive yourself. Billed monthly it is $30, which is $5 more than the tool you are leaving.

4. Akiflow: the one every list calls cheaper than Sunsama

Akiflow is a command bar, a task inbox and your calendar in one window. You capture everything into one place with a keyboard shortcut, then put it on the day. Tasks and subtasks, calendar integration, an AI assistant called Aki and an MCP connector all come with Pro.

Akiflow is also the most recommended Sunsama alternative on the internet and, billed monthly, the most expensive tool in this comparison. Here is the ladder, longest commitment last:

1. $34 a month, billed monthly.
2. $19 a month on annual billing, shown on the page as $228 a year and labelled a 44% saving.
3. $14.90 a month on the two-year Believer plan, $357.60 in total.
4. $13.80 a month on the five-year commitment, $699 in total.

Read that ladder as a sentence about risk, not about price. Akiflow's cheapest headline number asks you to bet five years on a productivity app you have not used yet, on the strength of a 7-day trial that wants your card first.

There is one more detail no competing page seems to print. Akiflow's trial runs 7 days and requires a credit card before it starts. Sunsama's 14-day trial and Morgen's 14-day trial both begin without one, so if you want to test something this week without handing over card details, begin with one of those two.

5. Sunsama itself: the case for not switching

Sunsama is alive, selling and shipping, which is worth stating plainly on a page full of alternatives. It sells a guided daily routine over the tasks and calendars you already have, with unlimited integrations on Pro. Pro also carries unlimited usage, plus AI, MCP and Zapier support.

The price is the complaint, so start there. Pro is $25 a month billed monthly and $20 a month billed yearly. There is no free plan at any level, only the 14-day trial, and that trial does not ask for a card. Enterprise is custom, and it adds SSO and SAML, SCIM and audit logs for companies whose IT team asks about those on the first call.

What the daily sit-down buys you

If the routine works for you and the invoice is the only sore point, the cheapest fix is a billing change. Move to yearly billing at $20 a month and you have also saved yourself rebuilding the whole setup somewhere else.

Gravity: for the plan that keeps refilling with the same work

My company, so apply whatever discount you apply to a founder writing about his own product. Gravity is not a daily planner and it does not belong in the same column as the five tools above.

Here is why it is on the page anyway. Every tool in this comparison helps you decide when to do the work. Then you still do the work. The reason you are planning at all is a list of jobs that come back every week: the invoice nobody has paid, the weekly update somebody promised on Monday. Gravity is the option where the recurring job gets done for you, so it never needs a slot in tomorrow.

You describe the task in plain words. An agent an expert has already built and tested runs it and hands back the result. Gravity is in private alpha, so the catalogue is short and you apply for access. The first agent is free and there is no card.

Where Gravity is the wrong buy

If what you want is the ritual and the feeling of having looked your day in the eye, buy one of the tools above and do not let me talk you out of it. Gravity has no planning view and no drag-and-drop day, and adding one is not on the plan.

Best for

Someone whose planning problem is really a volume problem: the same handful of recurring jobs, every week, shunted from one day to the next.

Pricing

First agent free, no card. Pro is $5 a month during the alpha, and Max is $20 a month for more agents and usage. Buy more usage if you run out. As of September 2026.

Free tier

Yes. One agent, free.

Verdict

Wrong tool if you want a better plan. Right tool if you want a shorter one.

Which one should you choose?

Start with what the $25 a month is buying you, because that answer decides the rest.

• The bill is the entire problem: use Reclaim Lite. It costs nothing forever and you can be running on it this afternoon.
• You want the day assembled for you: Motion, at $19 per seat a month billed monthly. Count the seats before you decide whether that is cheap.
• Tasks and calendars in one window, and a year is fine: Morgen at $15 a month is the best-value planner here.
• You like the command-bar workflow and a year is fine: Akiflow at $19 a month is a fair buy. Paying monthly it is $34, which is more than the tool you are leaving, and the 7-day trial wants a card before it will show you anything.
• The ritual is the thing that works: stay on Sunsama. That is a legitimate answer. Switching from monthly to yearly billing at $20 a month is the cheap version of it.

There is one more case, and it is the reason Gravity is on this page. If the honest diagnosis is that no plan fixes the volume, Gravity is the different answer: private alpha, first agent free, no daily planning view. For what it is worth, I would pick one of the five tools above for the shape of my day and hand the recurring jobs to an agent. Those are not competing purchases.

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