Floatboat vs Motion

Floatboat

Using the calendar as the agent's runtime is a genuinely different framing, and pairing it with a native desktop app that keeps files on your own machine avoids the usual upload tax. The MCP tool surface is wide. The cost is opacity: everything runs on credits whose burn rate is not published, and the entry price only holds if you pay a year in advance.

Pros

• +Native Mac and Windows builds plus an iOS companion, not just a browser tab
• +Roughly 3,500 tool connections via MCP, including a browser the agent drives
• +Files stay local with unlimited storage instead of being uploaded to the vendor
• +Reachable from Telegram and Feishu, so tasks can be started from chat

Cons

• −Credit consumption per task is not published, so monthly cost is hard to predict
• −The advertised entry price requires $199 paid a year in advance
• −The lower tier is restricted to DeepSeek models and a standard processing lane

Motion

Motion is for people whose day collapses whenever one meeting moves: hand it deadlines and priorities and it keeps re-fitting the task list into the calendar without being asked. That hands-off scheduling is the reason to pay $19 a seat, and also the reason to be wary — if you want to decide for yourself when to do things, the constant re-planning feels like being managed by your own to-do list.

Pros

• +Automatic rescheduling around calendar changes is the core and it works without prompting
• +Projects, tasks, meeting booking, docs and wiki share one per-seat subscription
• +Apps on web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, plus a documented REST API
• +Capacity planning on Business AI shows when a team is over-committed before the deadline
• +Free trial, so the scheduling behaviour can be judged before paying

Cons

• −No free plan; the price is per seat and the page is vague about monthly versus annual billing
• −AI features draw on a monthly credit pool per seat, so heavy use of chat and writer tools can run out
• −The auto-scheduler can over-rule your own choices if priorities and estimates are not kept accurate
• −Pricing page copy renders 'This plan is not available' in static HTML, which looks like a broken page to scrapers and some browsers

Is Floatboat cheaper than Motion?

They charge in different units, so there is no like-for-like answer: Floatboat starts at $16.58/mo, Motion at $19/seat/mo. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it.

Does Floatboat or Motion have a free tier?

Floatboat has a free tier; Motion has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, Floatboat or Motion?

Motion ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Floatboat is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.