How Motivity and MegAligna differ
Motivity is built data-collection-first: its reputation rests on flexible program building and live session streaming to the supervising BCBA. Pricing is per learner, published. MegAligna is built operations-first: the authorization is the spine, and scheduling, data collection and billing hang off it. Pricing is per active clinical seat, with client records never charged for.
That difference decides who should switch and who should not.
Motivity vs MegAligna: feature comparison
Motivity's column reflects its published pricing page, retrieved August 4, 2026; source at the end of this page. Rows where Motivity is ahead are included.
| MegAligna | Motivity per learner | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced per active staff seat, clients free | Yes | No |
| Published price | Yes | Yes |
| Live session streaming to the supervising BCBA 3 | No | Yes |
| Authorization burn-down enforced at booking 4 | Yes | Partial |
| Session capture survives a dropped connection | Yes | No |
| Direct electronic claim submission | No | Partial |
- 3 Motivity's signature feature, and a genuine advantage. Supervision here works through scheduled in-session observation and the co-sign queue instead.
- 4 Motivity's practice management tier advertises authorization monitoring alongside payroll, revenue and utilization tracking. The difference is where the check happens: here the remaining balance is validated in the booking slot before the session is committed.
Motivity pricing compared: per learner against per seat
Motivity publishes three tiers, all billed monthly per learner: ABA Data Collection at $24, ABA Practice Management at $24, and the All-In-One platform combining both at $48. Enterprise plans are quoted rather than published.
Per-learner and per-seat models diverge with the staff-to-client ratio. An agency running 45 learners with 60 clinical staff pays 45 units under Motivity’s model and 60 seats here; an agency running 45 learners with 30 clinical staff pays the reverse.
Neither model is universally cheaper, so run the calculation at your own headcount rather than relying on any vendor’s worked example, this one included. Note also which tier you would need: at $24 the Motivity plan is data collection or practice management, not both.
Three shapes, at Motivity’s All-In-One tier — the one that covers both data collection and practice management, which is what this product is being compared against:
| Agency | Learners | Clinical staff | Motivity All-In-One | MegAligna |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting out | 6 | 3 | $288 | $99 |
| Balanced caseload | 45 | 30 | $2,160 | $600 |
| Staff-heavy | 10 | 25 | $480 | $500 |
The third row is the one worth reading twice: at ten learners and twenty-five clinical staff, Motivity is cheaper than we are, and it stays cheaper for any agency whose staff outnumber its learners by that margin. Per-seat pricing is not a universal discount, and a comparison page that only showed the rows where we win would be worth nothing to you.
The first row shows the other edge: at three clinicians the $99 monthly minimum is what you pay, not $60, because the floor bites before the seats do.
Non-clinical staff — admin, front desk, an outsourced biller — are $free, and learners are never charged for at all. Those two facts are the whole difference between the models; the arithmetic above is just where they land.
Which agencies should stay with Motivity
If live streaming is how your BCBAs supervise remote sessions, that workflow has no equivalent here, and supervision would move to scheduled in-session observation and recorded review. If you submit claims electronically from inside Motivity today and want that to continue, MegAligna hands finished charges to your biller instead. The billing pages set out exactly what that involves.
The mechanics of the 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
Can program libraries be migrated from Motivity?
Is historical session data preserved in a migration?
What does the switch cost during the overlap month?
Try it end to end with test data
14 days, no card required. Use made-up patients while you evaluate — real patient information waits until a business associate agreement is in place.