Claude Motion not on your plan? Access, pricing and what to do instead
By the Motion Skills team · Facts checked November 12, 2026
Claude Motion is in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans only. It isn't on Free, Pro or Max, and it isn't sold separately. Pro and Max users can make the same kind of animated MP4 with Claude Code and a Motion skill; Free users can do it in Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI. Or move to Team.
Checked against Anthropic's pricing page, help article and announcement on November 12, 2026.
Which plans include Claude Motion
| Plan | Claude Motion | Your best route |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Not included | A Motion skill in Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI (Claude Code isn't on Free) |
| Pro | Not included | Claude Code + a Motion skill |
| Max 5x | Not included | Claude Code + a Motion skill |
| Max 20x | Not included | Claude Code + a Motion skill |
| Team | Beta, on by default | Motion in a chat, or a skill when the film comes from your own project |
| Enterprise | Beta, off until an owner turns it on | Ask an owner, or a skill in Claude Code |
Both Max tiers are listed as not included, so upgrading from Pro to Max doesn't add it. Anthropic announced Claude Motion on October 8, 2026, and availability can change while it's in beta; Anthropic's help article and pricing page are the source of truth.
Should you be seeing it? A 4-step check
If you're on Team or Enterprise and still can't find it, go through these in order.
1. You're on Team or Enterprise
Check your plan in Claude's settings. Motion comes with Team and Enterprise only, so on Free, Pro or Max the rest of this list won't change anything.
2. An owner hasn't turned it off
On Team, Claude Motion is on by default, but an owner can switch it off. On Enterprise it's off until an owner turns it on. Owners and Primary Owners do both under Organization settings → Artifacts.
3. Your role allows it
On Enterprise, owners can limit Motion to specific groups with custom roles. If colleagues have it and you don't, ask an owner which groups it's enabled for.
4. You're looking in the right place
In a chat, select Output in the message box and choose Motion, or type /motion. Or open the Artifacts tab and pick a Motion template. Finished animations are saved in the Artifacts tab, and Export → MP4 downloads one. If all four checks pass and it's still missing, contact Claude support.
Three ways to get the same kind of video without Team
Claude Code + a Motion skill (Pro and Max)
Claude Code is included on Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x. A Motion skill is a full-film skill your coding agent loads: you give it your project, notes, data or script, it proposes directions, writes the film as code, composes the music and renders the MP4 on your computer. You can ask for any change in plain words, and the film stays a project you keep and can render again.
- Start free: Motion Director is free with a Google sign-in and makes a 10–20 second film of any type from your own material.
- Full films: each full-film skill, such as Explainer Video, is $4.90, or all of them come with a plan (pricing). No credits; the only usage is your agent's own.
- Setup: where skills go and how agents find them is in How to install agent skills.
- Step by step: from install to MP4, with a real example film, in How to make a video with Claude Code.
Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI + a Motion skill (good for Free)
Claude Code isn't on the Free plan, but the same skills work in other coding agents that read skills. Install Motion Director, the free skill, the same way and ask for the video in plain words. If you don't use a coding agent yet, this is the route that costs nothing to try. Step by step for those agents, with the folder each one reads: Make videos with Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI.
Move to Team
If your team wants Motion itself, inside Claude chats, Team is the plan that has it. Anthropic's pricing page lists Team for teams of 2 to 150, with a standard seat at $20 per seat a month billed annually ($25 monthly) and a premium seat at $100 ($125 monthly). Check the pricing page for current prices before you decide.
What about Claude Design?
Claude Design is included on every plan, including Free, and it's out of beta. It isn't Claude Motion: there's no Motion template in it, and Anthropic doesn't describe it as making MP4 animations. If what you need is a still design or a slide, it may be all you need; for a video, use one of the routes above.
Claude Motion and a Motion skill, side by side
| Claude Motion | A Motion skill | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | In Claude: a chat or the Artifacts tab | Your coding agent, on your computer |
| Plans | Team and Enterprise (beta) | Any agent that reads skills; Claude Code needs Pro or Max |
| What you get | An animated explainer from a prompt, exported as MP4 | A film written as code, with its own music, rendered as MP4 |
| Your material | What you write or attach in the chat | Read where it is: your repo, site, data files or footage |
| Changes | Ask in the chat | Ask your agent; the project stays on your computer |
| Cost | No separate price; counts toward your plan's usage | Motion Director is free; $4.90 per skill, or a plan |
For more tools, including HeyGen and Remotion, see Motion Skills vs. the alternatives.
What Claude Motion costs
There's no separate price for Motion, but you need a Team or Enterprise plan to have it, and Team is sold by the seat. From Anthropic's pricing page: a standard Team seat is $20 a month billed annually ($25 billed monthly), "for teams of 2 to 150". Pro is $17 a month with the annual discount ($200 up front), or $20 billed monthly.
So for one person who wants this kind of video, a year looks like this:
| Route | What you pay | One person, one year |
|---|---|---|
| Move to Team to get Claude Motion | 2 seats at $20 a month, billed annually | $480 |
| Stay on Pro, use the free Motion Director skill | Pro only | $200 |
| Stay on Pro, add every Motion skill | Pro, plus $79 a year | $279 |
| Stay on Pro, buy the one skill you need | Pro, plus $4.90 once | $204.90 |
Team gives a team more than Motion (shared projects, admin controls, higher limits), so if you were moving to Team anyway, Motion comes with it. If Motion is the only reason, the skill route costs less and the film is made from your own files.
Within a plan that has it, Motion has no price of its own. Motion counts toward your plan's usage limits, like the rest of your work with Claude, and longer or more complex animations use more of the limit than a typical message. To make the limit go further:
- Keep first drafts short (8–15 seconds), then extend.
- Ask for specific edits ("change this number") rather than regenerating the whole animation.
- Reuse a prompt that already works and swap in new words and numbers. The Claude Motion prompts page labels each prompt with where it runs.
What about Remotion or HyperFrames?
Other guides send Pro users to "Claude Code plus Remotion" or "Claude Code plus HyperFrames". Both work, and they are engines: they give your agent a way to render video from code, and you still decide the story, the pacing and the sound.
- Remotion is React. Its licence is free "for individuals and companies of up to 3 people"; larger companies pay $25 a seat a month (Remotion's pricing).
- HyperFrames is HTML, CSS and seekable animation, made by HeyGen under Apache 2.0, free (HyperFrames on GitHub).
- A Motion skill sits a step above an engine: it tells the agent how to read your material, plan the shots, write the film, score it and check every frame before rendering.
The longer comparison, with six more tools, is in Claude Motion alternatives.
Films made with a Motion skill
Both were directed and rendered by a coding agent with one of our skills. The first sums up this page in 38 seconds; the second shows Claude Code itself.
On one map: Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise, but Claude Code is on Pro and Max, and with a motion skill it renders the same kind of video on your computer.
Example of Explainer Video16:9 · 38 s
From Anthropic's Claude Motion help article and this site's guide; narration is a synthetic voice.
Install, start in a project, ask the first question: the official quickstart, with the real version output.
Example of Walkthrough Video16:9 · 29 s
Unofficial walkthrough, not made or endorsed by Anthropic.
Questions
Is Claude Motion available on Claude Pro?
No. Claude Motion is in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans only, and Anthropic's pricing page lists it as not included on Pro. Pro users can still make the same kind of animated video: install a Motion skill in Claude Code, which is on Pro, and it renders an MP4 on your own computer.
Is Claude Motion on the Max plan?
No. Both Max 5x and Max 20x list Claude Motion as not included. Claude Code is on both, so a Motion skill in Claude Code is the way to make this kind of video on Max.
Can I use Claude Motion on the Free plan?
No. Claude Motion isn't on Free, and neither is Claude Code. Free users can use a Motion skill in Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI instead; Motion Director, the free skill, needs only a Google sign-in.
Why can't I see Claude Motion?
Usually because your plan doesn't include it: it's only on Team and Enterprise. On Team it's on by default, but an owner can turn it off. On Enterprise it's off until an owner turns it on in Organization settings → Artifacts, and custom roles can limit it to certain groups. If you qualify, look for Output → Motion in the message box or a Motion template in the Artifacts tab. If it's still missing, contact Claude support.
Does Claude Motion cost extra?
No. There's no separate price. Claude Motion counts toward your plan's normal usage limits, and longer or more complex animations use more of the limit than a typical message.
Is Claude Motion free?
It has no separate price, but it isn't on Claude's free plan: it comes with Team and Enterprise and counts toward their usage limits. On the free plan, the free way to make the same kind of video is Motion Director, the free skill, in Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI.
Can Claude Code make Claude Motion-style videos?
Claude Code doesn't have the Motion feature, but with a Motion skill it can direct and render the same kind of animated MP4 on your computer. Motion Director, the free skill, needs only a Google sign-in.
Sources
- Anthropic, Get started with Claude Motion (help article)
- Anthropic, Claude pricing
- Anthropic, Dashboards and Motion (announcement, October 8, 2026)
For the feature itself, see How to use Claude Motion, the Claude Motion guide and the Claude Motion hub.
This guide is independent and not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. Checked against Anthropic's pricing page, help article and announcement on October 29, 2026.