Motivity alternative: per-learner vs per-seat ABA pricing

Motivity is ABA software priced per learner: $26 a month for data collection, $24 for practice management, or $50 for both, with live in-session data views for supervisors and no offline mode. MegAligna is an alternative priced per active clinical seat with learners free, which comes out cheaper when learners outnumber staff.

Two products built from opposite ends

Motivity started from data collection. Its pitch to clinical directors is supervision in the moment: a BCBA can step into an RBT’s active session, read the notes and coach in real time, watching the learner’s graphs move as trials are recorded. Its practice management product, sold separately or bundled, adds billing and revenue-cycle work, authorization and credential tracking.

MegAligna started from operations. The authorization is the spine, and scheduling, data collection and billing exports hang off it. Supervision here works through scheduled in-session observation and a co-sign queue: there is no live view into another clinician’s session.

Per learner against per seat, at three agency shapes

Motivity publishes three plans, all billed monthly per learner: Data Collection at $26, Practice Management at $24, and the All-In-One platform at $50. Enterprise is quoted. The comparison below uses All-In-One, because that is the plan that covers both halves this product does.

Agency	Learners	Clinical staff	Motivity All-In-One	MegAligna
Starting out	6	3	$300	$99
Balanced caseload	45	30	$2,250	$600
Staff-heavy	10	30	$500	$600

Read the third row twice: at ten learners and thirty clinical staff, Motivity is cheaper. The two models break even when clinical staff number 2.5 times your learners; past that, per-learner wins. At three clinicians the first row shows the other edge: our $99 monthly minimum applies, not $60.

Learners are never charged for here, and admin, front-desk and biller logins are $free. If you only need data collection, compare against Motivity’s $26 plan instead, and the numbers move in its favour.

Feature by feature, from Motivity’s own pages

Motivity's column comes from its pricing page, practice management page and blog, checked October 14, 2026 (sources at the end of this page). Rows where Motivity is ahead are included.

	MegAligna	Motivity per learner
Supervisor can view an RBT's session live and coach in real time ¹	No	Yes
Billing and claims work inside the product ²	No	Yes
Session capture continues through a dropped connection ³	Yes	No
Remaining authorization balance checked in the booking slot ⁴	Yes	Ask the vendor
Learners free, priced per active clinical seat	Yes	No
Prices shown on the vendor website	Yes	Yes

¹ Motivity's signature feature and a genuine advantage. Its blog describes live session data and graphs rather than video.
² Motivity's practice management plan lists integrated billing and RCM. MegAligna hands finished charges to your biller instead.
³ Motivity has said it chose not to build offline capture. Here, a session in progress survives a lost connection within a working day whose roster loaded online.
⁴ Motivity's practice management plan monitors authorizations; its pages do not say whether a booking is checked against the remaining units.

When staying with Motivity is right

If your BCBAs supervise by dropping into live sessions, that workflow has no equivalent here. If your billing team works claims inside Motivity and wants to keep doing so, this product will hand them an export instead. And if your clinical staff outnumber learners by more than 2.5 to one, per-learner pricing is simply cheaper.

The mechanics of a move have their own page: switching from Motivity covers what the importer accepts, how a program and goal library maps across, and the order to cut over in.

Common questions

Did Motivity raise its prices?

Its pricing page now shows $26 per learner for data collection and $50 for All-In-One, up from $24 and $48 when we last checked in August 2026; practice management is still $24. Check the page itself before you budget.

How long does moving a Motivity program library take?

Programs and goal libraries import via CSV. The structure needs mapping rather than arriving screen-identical, so expect roughly an afternoon of cleanup for a typical library rather than a services engagement.

Do our historical graphs survive the move?

As data, not as pictures: bring the per-session values over CSV and the graphs re-render here. Export everything from Motivity before you cancel, whatever you move to.

Run a test learner's session and co-sign it

14 days, no card required. Use made-up patients while you evaluate: real patient information waits until a business associate agreement is in place.

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