Reclaim AI Alternative: Pricing, Review, and Where It Beats Motion

What Reclaim does, and does better than we do

Reclaim treats your calendar as the scarce resource and defends it automatically. You tell it you need fifteen hours of focus time a week, that you want to work out three mornings, that your one-to-ones should land somewhere on Tuesday or Wednesday, and it finds the slots, books them, and then quietly rearranges them when a real meeting lands on top. That last part is the actual product. Anyone can block time in a calendar once. Reclaim keeps the blocks correct after the week starts going wrong.

The pieces it ships are Focus Time, Habits, Buffer Time, Smart Meetings and Meeting Quality, plus task auto scheduling that pulls work off Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira and Linear and places it in real calendar slots sized to the estimate. Scheduling Links cover the Calendly-style booking side. Calendar Sync copies commitments between your work and personal calendars so nobody double books you through the calendar you did not share. It runs on Google Calendar and, since May 2025, on Outlook Calendar with the same feature set, which closed the one gap that used to rule it out for Microsoft shops.

If your specific complaint is that you never get an uninterrupted two hour block, that meetings sprawl until there is no gap between them, or that your task list and your calendar are two unrelated documents, Reclaim solves that directly and we do not. We are not a calendar optimizer and there is no version of this page where we pretend otherwise.

What Reclaim costs, and the number almost nobody quotes

Pricing verified at reclaim.ai on August 13, 2026, reading the pricing page directly. Lite is free forever for a single user and covers Focus Time, Habits, Buffer Time, Smart Meetings and Meeting Quality, with a one week scheduling range, one Calendar Sync and one Scheduling Link. Starter is $10 per seat per month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly, for up to 10 seats, and stretches the scheduling range to eight weeks with three Calendar Syncs and three Scheduling Links. Business is $15 annually or $18 monthly for up to 100 seats, with a twelve week range, unlimited syncs and links, webhooks, a Team OOO calendar and Delegated Access for executive assistants and admins. Enterprise is $22 per seat per month on annual billing for more than 100 seats, and is the tier that carries SSO, SCIM provisioning and org chart aware scheduling.

Two things about that are worth flagging, because the roundups get both wrong. The first is a billing display trap: the toggle on reclaim.ai defaults to yearly, so the $10 and $15 figures you see quoted everywhere are the annual rates. Paying monthly costs $12 and $18. Several comparison sites print the annual number and label it monthly, which understates Reclaim by twenty percent if you are not committing for a year.

The second is the one that actually changes a buying decision. Reclaim meters AI Agents per seat, and the tiers differ on that count more than on anything else: five on Lite, ten per seat on Starter, one hundred per seat on Business, unlimited on Enterprise. The seat price is the number in the headline, but the agent allowance is the number that decides whether the tool keeps working in month three. This is the same shape of trap as Fireflies metering AI credits separately from its unlimited transcription, and it is the thing to model before you buy. Also note that Enterprise having a published $22 price at all is unusual: most roundups still say "contact sales" for this tier.

For reference on our side, Officeagent is $149 a month for a solo operator and $399 a month flat for the Office plan covering the whole team with 2,000 agent actions. That is a lot more than a calendar tool, and it should be, because it is not a calendar tool. If what you need is your focus time defended, we are a badly overpriced way to get it.

Where the two tools actually differ

Reclaim works on the container. It decides where things go, protects the gaps and keeps the shape of your week intact. What it does not do, by design, is any of the work sitting inside the blocks. Reclaim will reliably reserve you ninety minutes on Thursday morning labelled "draft the client proposal." Whether the proposal gets drafted is entirely between you and Thursday morning.

Officeagent works on the contents. It reads the thread where a client asked for a call and runs the scheduling back and forth until the invite exists. It drafts the email in your tone. It writes the recap and the action items afterward, files the documents where they belong, updates the record and keeps chasing the follow-up until somebody replies. Nothing goes out on its own. Every outbound action sits in a queue and waits for a human click, which is why the how it works page spends most of its length on the approval loop rather than on the model.

Put plainly: Reclaim protects the time. Officeagent does the thing you were protecting the time for. Those are different purchases and they are not really substitutes. Plenty of offices would sensibly run both, and since Reclaim is free for one user, trying it costs nothing.

The place the two genuinely overlap is meeting scheduling, and it is worth being precise about how. Reclaim schedules well when the meeting is already agreed and it is the placement that needs solving, and its Scheduling Links handle the booking page case. We schedule from the messy end, where the meeting exists only as a sentence in an email thread that says "sometime next week works, maybe Tuesday?" and somebody has to read it, propose times, and send an invite. If your bottleneck is the placement, Reclaim. If it is the correspondence before the placement, us.

Is Reclaim AI safe, and what does it actually get access to?

This comes up more than any other question about Reclaim, and it should, because the permission scope is genuinely broad. Reclaim asks to view and edit events on all your calendars, to see and download every calendar you can access, to read your calendar settings and timezone, and to reach your contacts through Google Contacts and the workspace directory. Optional integrations extend to Google Tasks, Gmail and Slack. It has to have write access, because rewriting your week is the product, but it is a bigger grant than most people picture when they click through the consent screen.

On certifications, Reclaim states SOC 2 Type II and commits to GDPR and CCPA compliance, with a Data Processing Addendum available in its business terms. On data handling it says it stores data from your primary calendar but does not store data from other calendars connected via Calendar Sync, holding that temporarily and discarding it, and it states it will never sell or share your data with a third party for profit. Account and data deletion is self service, with purging stated within an hour.

One honest gap, since people search for it specifically: Reclaim does not claim HIPAA compliance on its security page. SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA are not the same thing and one does not imply the other. If you are in a covered entity and calendar entries would carry patient identifiers, that absence is the answer you needed, and you should ask Reclaim directly for a BAA before deploying rather than reading a certification across from a different framework. Similarly, SSO and SCIM sit on the Enterprise tier, so a security review that requires enforced single sign on prices you at $22 per seat and not at $15.

When Reclaim is the better buy

Buy Reclaim, not Officeagent, if the shape of your week is the problem. If you finish most days having never touched the work you planned, if your calendar is a wall of back to back meetings with no buffer, if your task manager and your calendar have quietly stopped agreeing with each other, Reclaim addresses that directly and cheaply, and the free tier is enough to find out within a week whether it helps. The same applies if you manage a team and want everyone protecting focus time consistently rather than by individual willpower, which is what the Business tier is genuinely for.

Look past Reclaim for one specific reason, and it is worth stating narrowly rather than broadly, because the broad version would be a sales pitch. You have already fixed the calendar. The focus blocks are there, defended, and correct. And you are still behind, because the backlog is not meetings, it is forty small administrative obligations: the recap nobody wrote, the invoice nobody chased, the document nobody filed, the client who never got a reply. No amount of additional calendar optimization touches that pile, because the pile is not a scheduling problem. That is the case where a different category of tool starts to make sense, and it rules us out for most people reading this page.

If you are weighing Reclaim against Motion rather than against us, that is a real comparison and a closer one, and we wrote the honest version on the Motion alternative page. The short answer is below in the FAQ.

• Buy Reclaim for: automatic focus time, habits and buffers, task auto scheduling from Asana or Todoist, calendar sync across accounts, Google and Outlook support, SOC 2 Type II
• Buy Officeagent for: email drafted and sent after your approval, meetings booked out of messy threads, recaps written and filed, follow ups chased until they close
• Buy both if the calendar and the follow through are both broken. Reclaim is free for one user, so the first half costs nothing to test

The wider alternative landscape

If Reclaim is not it and you still want a calendar tool, the shortlist is short. Motion is the closest direct competitor and the more aggressive product: it merges tasks and calendar into a single auto planned schedule and will rebuild your whole day rather than defend blocks within it. It is also more expensive, at $19 per seat per month monthly or roughly $12.74 annually on Pro AI, and $29 or roughly $19.43 annually on Business AI, and it meters credits per seat as well. People who love Motion love that it makes the decision for them. People who leave Motion usually say the same thing in the negative.

Calendly is not really in this category, though it gets compared here constantly. Calendly is a booking page for other people to grab your time, not a system that protects it. If your problem is inbound scheduling with clients or candidates, Calendly is the right tool and Reclaim is not, and the two are frequently run together rather than against each other. We covered that split on the Calendly alternative page. Clockwise was the other name on every list of this kind and it no longer exists, as above.

Before buying any of them, check what you already pay for. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 both ship scheduling features that cover part of this, and a surprising number of teams buy a third tool for something their existing licence includes. We set out which editions include what on the Google Calendar and Outlook pages, and the whole category is ranked, us included and not first, in the best AI scheduling assistant roundup. If one of those already covers you, the cheapest correct move is to buy nothing.