Artlist vs Motion Array Comparison 2026
Artlist licenses music, footage and plugins on one subscription from $19.99 a month billed annually, with the licence surviving cancellation for anything already published. Motion Array sells what a video editor runs out of mid-project: Premiere and After Effects templates, presets, LUTs, footage and music, priced by category from $10.99 a month or $24.99 for everything. Buying two Motion Array categories costs more than the Everything plan. The real fork is Adobe: Motion Array's templates only pay off inside Premiere or After Effects, and Artlist does not care which editor you use.
One licence covering music, footage and plugins
Templates and footage for video editors
At a glance
- Motion Array starts cheaper, at $10.99.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Artlist | Motion Array | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19.99 | From $10.99 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Artlist
One licence covering music, footage and plugins
Artlist sells a subscription that licenses everything on it for everything you make, including the videos you monetise, and the licence survives the subscription ending for anything already published. That last clause is the one worth reading twice, because it is where most stock music libraries hedge. The catalogue leans cinematic. Somebody who needs one track this month will find a per-track shop cheaper, and Artlist does not sell that way.
Our note
The licence terms are the product here and the catalogue is secondary, which is the opposite of how these are usually sold. Compare against Epidemic Sound on what happens when you stop paying rather than on how many tracks each claims.
Only on this side
- Covers music licensing
- Works with YouTube
- Works with Instagram
- Works with TikTok
Motion Array
Templates and footage for video editors
Motion Array sells the things a video editor runs out of mid-project: Premiere and After Effects templates, presets, LUTs, stock footage and music, on one licence that covers commercial work. The plugins are the part regular users say they would miss. Buying it by category is cheaper than the Everything plan and worse value the moment you need two categories.
Why people weigh these two
- Motion Array instead of Artlist
- Motion Array at $11 focuses on templates and footage for video editors, narrower than a licence covering music and plugins too.
- Artlist instead of Motion Array
- Artlist covers music, footage and plugins under one licence the same way Motion Array does, weighted more toward music than toward editing templates.
Which one should you pick
Pick Artlist if music clearance is the actual job and editor compatibility does not matter. The entry tier is $19.99 a month billed annually, cheaper than Motion Array's $24.99 Everything plan across a year, and anything published while subscribed stays licensed after you cancel.
Pick Motion Array if you edit in Premiere or After Effects and keep buying single templates. The plugin suite is what regular users say they would miss most, and the Everything plan at $24.99 a month beats buying two single-category plans separately, which costs more than the bundle. Anybody cutting in CapCut or DaVinci gets little from the templates and should look elsewhere.
Common questions
- Is Artlist cheaper than Motion Array?
- Artlist's entry tier is $19.99 a month billed annually, about $239.88 a year. Motion Array's Everything plan is $24.99 a month, about $299.88 a year if paid monthly, so Artlist's entry tier undercuts it. Motion Array's single-category plans start lower, at $10.99 for AI Voiceover, but cover far less.
- Does Motion Array work outside Adobe software?
- Its main draw is Premiere and After Effects templates, so an editor working in CapCut or DaVinci Resolve gets little from the library. Artlist licenses music and footage without caring which editor opens the file.
- Is it cheaper to buy one Motion Array category or the Everything plan?
- Buying two categories separately costs more than the $24.99 Everything plan, so anybody needing more than one library should skip straight to Everything. Artlist does not split its catalogue by category the same way; its tiers scale by AI allowance instead.
- Can either one be used for client work?
- Motion Array's single-user plans are explicitly licensed for any project type, including client work. Artlist's licence covers everything made on the subscription too, including monetized video, so both clear commercial use without an add-on.
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