Claude Motion Isn't on Pro or Max. 4 Ways to Make One Anyway
Anthropic launched Claude Motion on October 8, 2026: you describe an animation, Claude writes it as code, and you download an MP4. It is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. On Anthropic's pricing page, the Motion row reads "No" for Free, Pro and Max.
So most people who read the announcement can't open it. This article covers four ways to make the same kind of animation today, with the film each one made from one of Anthropic's own example prompts.
Two things to know before you read on. We make iArt, which is option 4. And we have not used Claude Motion: we are not on a Team or Enterprise plan either. Everything below about Motion comes from Anthropic's announcement, help article and pricing page, checked on October 10, 2026. We do not compare output quality with Motion, because we have no Motion output to compare.
What Claude Motion is
From Anthropic's announcement and help article:
- It writes code, not video. Claude builds the animation as code that moves the text, charts, shapes and images in it. Anthropic says it does not use a video generation model, so there is no generated footage and there are no AI-generated people.
- It animates your material. You attach a report, data or images and say who the audience is, where it will play and roughly how long it should be.
- You start it from a chat. Type
/motion, or choose Motion from the Output menu or the Artifacts tab. - You edit by asking or by hand. Ask for a change in chat or adjust it in the editor. Because the animation is code, changing one number or one scene's timing leaves the rest as it was.
- It exports MP4. You can also open the animation in Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI or Runway.
- It counts against your plan's usage. There is no separate fee. Longer or more complex animations use more of the limit than a typical message.
Anthropic's example prompts are office work: "Turn this quarterly report into a 30-second explainer for our all-hands", motion on a chart from a board deck, a product walkthrough for new customers.
Who gets Claude Motion
| Plan | Price | Claude Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | No |
| Pro | $20/month, or $17/month billed annually | No |
| Max | From $100/month | No |
| Team | From $25/seat/month, or $20 billed annually; 2 seats minimum | Yes, beta, on by default |
| Enterprise | $20/seat/month billed annually, plus usage | Yes, beta, off until an owner turns it on |
Source: claude.com/pricing, checked October 10, 2026. Anthropic has not said whether or when Motion will reach Pro and Max.
Option 1: Buy a Team plan
This is the only way to get Claude Motion itself. A Team plan needs at least two seats, so the smallest one is $50 a month billed monthly, or $40 a month billed annually. If you already share Claude with one other person, this is the direct answer and you can stop reading here.
If you work alone, you pay for a second seat you don't use, for a beta feature Anthropic says may change.
Option 2: Ask Claude for an animated artifact on the plan you have
We sent Anthropic's first example prompt to Claude on a Max plan, with Opus 5.5 and a real report attached: the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales release for Q2 2026.
Turn this quarterly report into a 30-second animated explainer for our all-hands
Claude looked for Motion first and said so: "No Motion type is offered here, so I'll build it as a self-playing 30-second animated page you can full-screen at the all-hands." Then it built one, in about two minutes.
What it made: A 30-second page in six scenes, styled as a kraft-paper shipping label: a title card, online sales counting up to $340.2 billion, a bar filling to 17.1% of all retail, two bars racing to +12.2% and +6.7%, a line chart of the last five quarters, and a takeaway. We checked every figure against the report and all of them match. It has play, replay, full-screen and a scrub bar, and you can share it as a link.
What it lacks: There is no MP4. The artifact's Export menu offers HTML, Markdown and PDF. Claude says so itself at the end of its reply: "It's a web page, not a video file. If you need an MP4 for your slides, screen-record it in full screen." It has no sound. Scenes fade from one to the next, and inside a scene the motion is a number counting up or a bar growing, so it plays closer to animated slides than to a film.
For a meeting where you can open a link and press full screen, this is enough, and it is on the plan you already have.
Option 3: Claude Code with an open-source animation skill
If you have Claude Code, you can make code-drawn animations and render them to MP4 on your own machine. We publish the method as an open-source skill pack, javascript-animation-skills. Claude plans the film, writes a single HTML page that draws every frame and synthesizes the soundtrack, checks its own stills, and renders the MP4 with a headless browser.
We gave it the same prompt and the same Census Bureau report as in option 2, and kept the first result with no edits.
Turn this quarterly report into a 30-second explainer for our all-hands
What it made: A 30-second film with one idea: the report prints out of a till as a receipt, and a yellow highlighter marks the online figures as they appear. Seven shots follow the paper as it feeds: total retail sales, $340.2 billion online, 17.1% of the total, growth against total retail, five quarters of year-over-year growth, then a pull-back to the whole receipt with three lines to remember. It wrote its own soundtrack of printer bursts, keys and a till bell, with a beat of silence before 17.1%. Every figure matches the report. It took about 13 minutes, including the render.
What we would fix: It is type and bars on paper from start to finish, and the stretch from 15 to 25 seconds is two similar shots of small bars. The opening three seconds are slow. Small labels such as "+2.9% from 1st quarter 2026" would be hard to read from the back of a room; the animated page in option 2 sets its numbers larger and is easier to read at a glance. In the last shot the receipt is too small to read and the lower half of the frame is empty.
What it costs you: setup. You install the skill, Node, a headless browser and ffmpeg, and you run the render step yourself. It uses your existing Claude plan and nothing else.
Option 4: iArt's Animation mode
Same prompt, same Census Bureau report attached as a PDF, on the live app with default settings: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and the default narration voice.
What it made: A narrated 30-second film in teal on dark navy: a title card; five quarters of sales as bars, the last one rising to $340.2 billion with a "+3.8%" callout; two bars for growth against a year ago, +12.2% for e-commerce and +6.7% for total retail; a grid of 100 squares filling to 17.1% of every retail dollar; and a closing line, "Online keeps gaining ground." The narration runs the full length over a soft piano score. Every figure on screen and in the narration matches the report. Generation took about three minutes and was charged $0.47, and the 1080p MP4 export took about 20 seconds.
What we would fix: The "~2×" label and the narration's "nearly double" round 12.2% against 6.7% up; it is 1.8 times. It is charts and numbers throughout, with no picture of what the numbers are about. In the app these are follow-up messages, such as "say 1.8×".
iArt's Animation mode is the same approach in a browser tab: a Claude model writes the animation as code, with text set as real type, and you edit it by asking. It runs on Claude Sonnet 5.5 by default, and you do not need a Claude subscription to use it.
What is different from the other options:
- No setup. It runs in a browser tab and renders in the cloud.
- Voiceover and music. You can pick a voice for narration, and the soundtrack is part of the film.
- Transparent export. Overlays such as lower thirds export as WebM with an alpha channel.
- Your files. You can attach images, a PDF, a slide deck or a CSV, or paste a URL.
What it costs: a new account gets a $2 credit, with no card. On the free plan you can preview a film and share a link, but you cannot download it. Downloading an MP4 needs Pro, which is $20 a month and includes $30 of credit.
The four options side by side
| Claude Motion | Claude artifact | Claude Code + skill | iArt | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who can use it | Team and Enterprise | Your current plan; we tested on Max | Any plan with Claude Code | Anyone; no Claude plan needed |
| Lowest monthly cost to get an MP4 | $50 (two Team seats, monthly) | No MP4; screen recording only | Your Claude plan | $20 (Pro) |
| Setup | None | None | Skill, Node, headless browser, ffmpeg | None |
| MP4 export | Yes | No | Yes, you run the render | Yes, on a paid plan |
| Edit by asking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hand editor | Yes | No | No, you edit the code | No, you edit by asking |
| Voiceover | Not mentioned in Anthropic's docs | None in our run | You wire up a TTS service | Built in |
| Open the result in other video tools | Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI, Runway | No | No | No |
The Claude Motion column is taken from Anthropic's documentation, not from use.
Which one to pick
- You have a teammate on Claude: move to a Team plan and use Motion itself. It sits next to your reports and decks, which is what it was built for.
- You need something to show in a meeting and no video file: ask Claude for an animated page on the plan you have.
- You already work in Claude Code: install the skill. It is free and you keep the source.
- You want the film without the pipeline, or you need narration: use iArt.
FAQ
Is Claude Motion available on Claude Pro?
No. As of October 10, 2026, Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans only. Anthropic's pricing page lists it as not included in Free, Pro and Max.
How much does Claude Motion cost?
There is no separate fee; it is part of the Team and Enterprise plans and counts toward the plan's usage limits. The smallest Team plan is two seats, $50 a month billed monthly.
Does Claude Motion use a video model like Sora or Veo?
No. Anthropic says Motion does not use a video generation model. Claude writes code that animates text, charts, shapes and images, so it does not produce realistic footage or people.
Is there a Claude Motion alternative that works without a Team plan?
Yes. On other paid plans Claude will build a self-playing animated page as an artifact, without MP4 export. In Claude Code, the open-source javascript-animation-skills pack renders code-drawn animations to MP4. iArt's Animation mode does the same in a browser on Claude models, with voiceover, and needs no Claude subscription.
Can Claude Motion add a voiceover?
Anthropic's announcement and help article do not mention voiceover or music. They list handoff to tools such as HeyGen and Descript. We have not been able to test it.