Sunsama Pricing: What You Pay, What You Get, and When an Alternative Makes Sense

Sunsama currently costs $22 per user per month if you pay monthly, or $204 per user per year if you pay annually.

The annual plan works out to $17 per month.

There is also a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and the trial includes the same core product as the paid Pro plan.

There is no permanent free plan.

So the real question is not whether Sunsama is cheap.

Compared with many personal task managers, it is not.

The better question is:

Does Sunsama solve enough of your daily planning problem to justify roughly $1 per working day?

For someone who uses its guided daily planning, calendar timeboxing, external integrations, weekly objectives, shutdown routines, weekly reviews, and newer AI assistant every working day, the answer can reasonably be yes.

For someone who mostly wants a place to keep tasks, the subscription can be difficult to justify.

Let's break down exactly what you are paying for.

Pricing and product terms in this article were verified on September 28, 2026.

Disclosure: This article is published by SelfManager.ai, an alternative to Sunsama for a different type of daily planning workflow. Sunsama has several capabilities that SelfManager does not currently try to replace, and those differences are explained below.

Sunsama Pricing in 2026

Sunsama currently has one standard paid product for individuals and normal workspaces.

Monthly

$22 per user per month

You pay each month.

Over 12 months, that would total:

$264 per user

Annual

$204 per user per year

The full year is billed annually.

That works out to:

$17 per user per month

Compared with staying on monthly billing for a full year, annual billing saves $60 per user per year.

Free trial

14 days

No credit card is required.

You are not automatically charged when the trial ends.

Enterprise

Sunsama also offers an Enterprise option with custom pricing for organizations requiring features such as:

• SSO and SAML
• SCIM
• Audit logs
• Custom security requirements
• Custom compliance requirements
• Enterprise billing arrangements

For most individual users and small teams, however, the standard Pro subscription is the relevant price.

Sunsama Pricing Summary

There is no separate cheaper version with fewer features.

There is also no higher personal tier required to unlock Sunsama's main planning features.

That simplicity is part of the pricing model.

What Happens During the 14-Day Sunsama Trial?

Sunsama's free trial is unusually straightforward.

You create an account and receive access for 14 days.

You do not need to enter a credit card.

According to Sunsama's current billing documentation, there is no functional difference between the trial version and the normal paid Pro product.

That means you can actually test the workflow rather than being placed into a restricted demo tier.

You can try:

• Daily Planning
• Calendar timeboxing
• Weekly Objectives
• Weekly Planning
• Weekly Review
• External integrations
• Sunny, the AI assistant
• Task timers and time estimates
• Backlog management
• Planning rituals
• Other normal Sunsama functionality

If the trial expires and you have not upgraded, Sunsama does not charge you.

You simply lose access to the workspace until you subscribe.

That is a much better trial model than requiring payment information upfront and relying on the user to remember to cancel.

What Are You Actually Paying $22 per Month For?

Looking at Sunsama only as a task manager makes the price difficult to understand.

There are much cheaper ways to store tasks.

Sunsama's value proposition is the workflow around those tasks.

The subscription combines several ideas that could otherwise exist across different tools.

1. Guided Daily Planning

Daily Planning is one of the most important parts of Sunsama.

Rather than opening the app and immediately facing an unlimited list of tasks, Sunsama guides you through constructing a realistic day.

The workflow includes:

1. Reviewing yesterday
2. Adding tasks for today
3. Importing relevant work
4. Reviewing expected workload
5. Adjusting tasks when the day is overloaded
6. Ordering today's work
7. Optionally timeboxing tasks onto your calendar
8. Setting a shutdown time
9. Starting the day

This is not revolutionary task-storage technology.

Its value is behavioral.

Sunsama repeatedly forces you to decide:

Does all of this actually fit today?

That can be worth considerably more than another place to store a checklist.

2. Workload Planning

Sunsama uses planned task durations to estimate how much work you are committing to.

Suppose you have:

• 90 minutes of writing
• Two hours of design
• One hour of email
• Three meetings
• 45 minutes of administration

Without adding the numbers together, it is easy to believe that another two-hour task will somehow fit.

Sunsama compares planned work with your configured workload limits and can warn you when you have overcommitted.

You can then move work to another day or return it to the backlog.

For users whose recurring productivity problem is planning more than a human can realistically execute, this is one of Sunsama's strongest features.

3. Calendar Timeboxing

Sunsama can connect with calendars and let you place tasks directly into available time.

Instead of simply deciding:

Write report today.

you can decide:

Write report from 9:30 to 11:00.

Sunsama supports calendar connections including Google, Outlook, and Apple calendars.

It can also work with multiple calendar accounts.

This makes the product especially useful for people whose day contains both:

fixed calendar events

and

flexible tasks that need to fit between them.

If your calendar controls most of your working life, this functionality is a genuine reason to pay more than you would for a traditional to-do list.

4. Integrations With the Tools Where Your Work Already Lives

Sunsama does not require every task to originate inside Sunsama.

That is another major part of the price.

Its planning workflow can pull work from external systems.

Current integrations cover categories including:

• Calendars
• Email
• Project-management tools
• Task managers
• Communication tools
• Zapier
• Other work systems

Sunsama specifically supports workflows involving tools such as Gmail, Asana, Trello, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and others.

This means Sunsama can sit above an existing professional stack.

For example:

Your developers may use Jira.

Your client work may be in Asana.

Requests may arrive through Gmail.

Meetings may live in Google Calendar.

You do not necessarily need to migrate all of that into Sunsama.

Sunsama can act as the personal planning layer where you ask:

Which of these things am I actually dealing with today?

That is a very different proposition from paying $22 for another isolated task list.

5. Weekly Objectives

Daily productivity can become shortsighted.

You complete many tasks but make little progress on the things that actually matter.

Sunsama attempts to connect the day to the week through Weekly Objectives.

An objective represents a larger weekly outcome.

For example:

Publish new landing page

could be the weekly objective.

Tasks aligned with it might include:

• Write copy
• Finish design
• Implement page
• Test mobile version
• Publish

You can then see which daily work contributes to that objective.

This provides another layer between a simple task and a large long-term project.

6. Weekly Planning

Sunsama has a dedicated Weekly Planning ritual.

Instead of making weekly planning something you need to remember independently, the product can prompt you at a configured time.

The workflow centers around your objectives for the upcoming week.

You can:

• Continue objectives from the previous week
• Create new objectives
• Reflect on the coming week
• Connect daily work to those objectives

This is part of what people are paying for with Sunsama.

The software is opinionated about productivity habits.

It does not merely provide the database.

It tries to guide the process.

7. Weekly Review

The same is true at the other end of the week.

Sunsama has a dedicated Weekly Review ritual.

The current workflow can show:

• Progress on weekly objectives
• Completed work
• Time spent on objectives
• Time spent on other activities
• A day-by-day time breakdown

The review also includes a reflection step where you can record wins, distractions, and lessons from the week.

You can combine Weekly Review and Weekly Planning into a single ritual if you prefer.

For someone who regularly says:

I know weekly reviews are useful, but I never remember to do them.

this built-in process can have real value.

8. Sunny, Sunsama's AI Assistant

Sunsama now includes Sunny, which makes its current value proposition broader than older Sunsama comparisons suggest.

Sunny can interact with the actual Sunsama workspace.

It can currently help with things such as:

• Creating tasks
• Editing tasks
• Moving tasks
• Completing tasks
• Creating subtasks
• Setting time estimates
• Managing recurring tasks
• Reordering the day
• Timeboxing work
• Working with the backlog
• Planning the day
• Reviewing completed work
• Summarizing work across a time period
• Changing certain settings

Sunny can also accept a brain dump and help organize it into the backlog.

This matters when evaluating the price.

Sunsama is no longer simply charging for manual daily-planning rituals.

AI is now part of the same subscription.

9. Planned and Actual Time

Sunsama supports both planned and actual time.

You can estimate:

This should take 60 minutes.

Then later record:

This actually took 95 minutes.

Over time, that can help improve estimation.

It also makes the Weekly Review more useful because time is connected to the work you completed.

For people whose workload planning is regularly undermined by bad time estimates, this feature can justify more of the subscription than another collection of task-management options would.

10. One Paid Tier Instead of Feature Fragmentation

Sunsama's current standard pricing is relatively simple.

There is essentially one normal paid product.

You do not have to ask:

Does the $8 tier contain integrations?

Is AI only on the $15 plan?

Do I need Pro Plus to unlock the weekly review?

The paid subscription includes the normal Sunsama experience.

That includes unlimited usage and integrations under the current Pro plan.

Whether $22 is good value is subjective.

But understanding what the $22 buys is relatively easy.

Is the Annual Sunsama Plan Worth It?

If you already know you will use Sunsama for a year, annual billing is financially straightforward.

Monthly for 12 months:

$264

Annual:

$204

Difference:

$60 per year

The more important question is whether you know you want the product for a year.

If you have never used Sunsama, there is little reason to decide based only on the annual savings.

Use the 14-day trial first.

Sunsama is a workflow product.

The thing you need to test is not whether its feature list sounds good.

You need to find out whether you actually enjoy:

• Planning the day deliberately
• Estimating your work
• Timeboxing tasks
• Reviewing your workload
• Running shutdown rituals
• Planning weekly objectives
• Reviewing the week

If those habits fit, annual billing becomes much easier to justify.

If they feel like extra productivity administration after ten days, saving $60 should not convince you to subscribe for a year.

What Does Sunsama Cost for a Team?

Sunsama pricing is per user.

That makes team costs scale directly with headcount.

Annual billing

Monthly billing

This does not automatically make Sunsama poor value for teams.

But it changes the calculation.

A $22 productivity tool for one professional is a different buying decision from $220 per month for ten people.

The team needs to use the planning workflow enough for the per-seat value to remain convincing.

Why Sunsama Can Still Make Sense at $22 per Month

There are genuine reasons to choose Sunsama even when cheaper task managers exist.

You plan from several different work systems

If the main benefit is combining tasks from several tools into one focused daily plan, paying for Sunsama can be easier than replacing the existing systems.

Your calendar controls your day

Sunsama's calendar connection and timeboxing are central rather than decorative.

You repeatedly overcommit

The workload-planning process gives you a structured reason to remove work from today.

You need help creating planning habits

Daily Planning, Daily Shutdown, Weekly Planning, and Weekly Review form a repeatable system.

You are paying partly for that opinionated process.

You use the integrations every day

An integration-heavy workflow creates more value than simply entering standalone Sunsama tasks.

You value a calmer planning philosophy

Sunsama is explicitly built around doing a realistic amount of work rather than maximizing task throughput.

For the right user, that philosophy is part of the product.

When $22 per Month Is Probably Too Much

Sunsama becomes much harder to justify if you do not use the features that distinguish it.

For example:

You mostly need a task list

If your entire workflow is:

• Add task
• Set due date
• Complete task

there are many cheaper options.

You do not timebox

A large part of Sunsama's differentiation disappears if you never connect tasks to available calendar time.

You do not use integrations

If all your work is created directly inside one task manager anyway, Sunsama's position as a planning layer over other tools becomes less valuable.

You ignore the rituals

If you repeatedly skip:

• Daily Planning
• Daily Shutdown
• Weekly Planning
• Weekly Review

then you may be paying for a workflow you do not actually want.

You want the software to schedule everything automatically

Sunsama includes auto-scheduling tools, but its identity remains more deliberate and user-guided than aggressive automatic schedulers.

If your goal is:

Decide when I should do everything for me.

a scheduling-first product such as Motion may be more appropriate.

You primarily want historical work review

If your core requirement is preserving what happened on each date and then having AI analyze that historical work context, another planning model may fit better.

Sunsama vs SelfManager.ai on Price

SelfManager.ai is one example of why the correct alternative depends on what you are trying to replace.

Sunsama

$22/month

or

$204/year

Best suited to people who value:

• Guided daily planning
• Calendar timeboxing
• Strong external integrations
• Workload prediction
• Weekly objectives
• Daily and weekly rituals
• Sunny AI inside that workflow

SelfManager.ai Individual

$8/month

or

$72/year

Best suited to people who value:

• Date-based workspaces
• Multiple tables within each day
• Built-in time tracking
• Notes, comments, images, and work context
• AI Plan
• AI Review
• Historical work records
• Lower individual subscription cost

The annual difference is substantial:

Sunsama: $204/year

SelfManager.ai: $72/year

Difference:

$132/year

But the products are not equivalent subscriptions at different prices.

SelfManager does not currently replace Sunsama's external integration ecosystem or its calendar-centered timeboxing workflow.

If those features are what make Sunsama useful to you, moving to a cheaper product just to save $132 could be a bad trade.

If you barely use them, the opposite may be true.

Read more: SelfManager.ai vs Sunsama.

The Team-Pricing Difference Is Larger

SelfManager's Team plan currently costs:

$30/month total

or

$300/year

with unlimited collaborators.

See SelfManager.ai pricing.

Sunsama charges per user.

That creates very different economics as teams grow.

For example, five users on Sunsama's annual plan cost:

$1,020/year

SelfManager Team:

$300/year

But again, the pricing model should not hide the product difference.

Sunsama provides significantly stronger calendar and external-tool integrations.

SelfManager Team is a lighter date-based collaboration model.

A team depending on Jira, Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, and guided timeboxing may still reasonably decide that Sunsama is worth more.

What About AI Allowances?

Sunsama's current pricing page lists AI as part of the Pro subscription alongside unlimited usage and unlimited integrations.

There is not currently a separate consumer AI add-on displayed on the pricing page.

SelfManager.ai uses an explicit AI-credit model.

The Individual subscription includes:

35 AI credits per week

with additional credits available separately if needed.

This is another example of why raw price is not enough.

If your preferred AI workflow is Sunny managing tasks and interacting with a calendar-centric Sunsama workspace, Sunsama gives you that environment.

If your preferred workflow is AI planning and reviewing a date-centric history of your actual work, SelfManager is designed around that instead.

Sunsama Does Not Have a Permanent Free Plan

This matters because many productivity products can be used indefinitely for free.

Sunsama cannot.

The free access is the 14-day trial.

After that, continuing to use the workspace requires a subscription.

That makes the trial period more important.

Use it as a real test rather than casually creating an account.

Put your actual work into it.

Connect the calendar you really use.

Connect at least one task or communication tool if integrations are part of the reason you are interested.

Run Daily Planning.

Timebox tasks.

Use Weekly Objectives.

Complete a Weekly Review.

Try Sunny.

Only then can you evaluate the $22 price properly.

What Happens if You Cancel Sunsama?

You can cancel a paid Sunsama subscription through its billing settings.

According to Sunsama's current billing documentation, you retain access until the end of the existing billing cycle.

The subscription then stops renewing.

There is one important data-retention detail to know:

Sunsama says workspace data is permanently deleted 30 days after a subscription ends because of cancellation unless you purchase another subscription or otherwise restore access as described in its billing documentation.

If you intend to leave permanently, export anything important before that window ends.

Sunsama currently supports exporting task data in CSV or JSON format.

Monthly or Annual: Which Should You Choose?

Use monthly billing if:

• You are still uncertain about the workflow
• You have only recently completed the trial
• Your work situation may change
• You want more flexibility

Use annual billing if:

• Sunsama is already part of your daily work
• You have used the rituals consistently
• You rely on its integrations
• You know you will continue for at least a year

The annual plan saves $60 compared with paying monthly for 12 months.

But an unused $204 subscription is still more expensive than one or two months spent confirming that the workflow really fits.

Is Sunsama Expensive?

Relative to basic personal task managers, yes.

That observation alone is not especially useful.

Software value depends on what problem it removes.

Suppose Sunsama helps a consultant earning $100 per hour consistently identify one unrealistic commitment before it disrupts the week.

The $22 subscription may feel trivial.

Suppose another person simply wants to remember:

• Buy milk
• Finish presentation
• Call dentist

That person may obtain essentially all the value they need from a much cheaper or free task manager.

Same price.

Completely different value.

A Useful Way to Decide if Sunsama Is Worth the Price

During the free trial, track whether you actually use the capabilities you would be paying for.

At the end of 14 days, ask:

Did Daily Planning change what I worked on?

If it merely repeated a task list you already knew, its value may be limited.

Did workload estimation stop me from overplanning?

If yes, that is a meaningful benefit.

Did I actually timebox tasks?

If you never did, calendar planning may not be important enough to justify the premium.

Did integrations reduce context switching?

Did you genuinely pull useful work from other systems into Sunsama?

Did I perform the Weekly Review?

Did the ritual change what you planned next?

Did Sunny do something useful with my real work?

Not:

Is the AI impressive?

Ask:

Did it remove actual work from my week?

Would I miss the workflow tomorrow?

This may be the most revealing question.

If the answer is immediately yes, Sunsama is probably solving a genuine problem.

When a Sunsama Alternative Makes Sense

Consider an alternative when you can identify exactly which Sunsama capability you are willing to give up.

Choose a simpler task manager if...

You mostly need projects, tasks, recurring dates, reminders, and quick capture.

You probably do not need to spend $22 every month to get those fundamentals.

Choose an automatic scheduler if...

You want the application to continuously decide exactly where work belongs on your calendar rather than guiding you through a deliberate planning process.

Choose SelfManager.ai if...

You care more about date-based workspaces, work history, built-in time tracking, AI planning, and retrospective AI review than calendar timeboxing and external integrations.

Stay with Sunsama if...

You find yourself saying:

Yes, but I still want the calendar, integrations, workload planning, and planning rituals.

That is the strongest argument for Sunsama.

A cheaper product that removes the features you depend on is not actually a cheaper substitute.

Read more: Sunsama alternatives.

Sunsama Pricing: The Final Answer

As of September 28, 2026:

Sunsama costs $22 per user per month when billed monthly.

The annual subscription costs $204 per user, equivalent to $17 per month.

The free trial lasts 14 days and does not require a credit card.

There is no permanent free plan.

The subscription includes the main Sunsama experience rather than dividing core functionality among several consumer tiers.

Whether that is good value comes down to what you use.

Sunsama is easier to justify when you actively use:

• Guided Daily Planning
• Workload forecasting
• Calendar timeboxing
• External integrations
• Weekly Objectives
• Weekly Planning
• Weekly Review
• Sunny AI

It is much harder to justify if you only use it as a checklist.

Do not ask whether $22 is expensive for a task app.

Ask whether Sunsama has become the planning layer you rely on every working day.

That is the product you are actually paying for.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Sunsama cost per month?

Sunsama currently costs $22 per user per month on monthly billing.

How much is Sunsama annually?

The annual subscription costs $204 per user, which is equivalent to $17 per month.

Compared with paying $22 monthly for 12 months, annual billing saves $60 per user.

Does Sunsama have a free version?

No permanent free plan is currently offered.

New users receive a 14-day free trial.

Does the Sunsama free trial require a credit card?

No.

Sunsama does not require payment information to start the current 14-day trial.

You are not automatically charged when the trial expires.

Are features limited during the Sunsama trial?

Sunsama's current billing documentation says there is no difference between the trial version and the paid Pro plan.

That makes the trial suitable for testing the actual workflow.

Is Sunsama priced per user?

Yes.

If several people share a Sunsama workspace, the subscription cost increases per user.

One workspace administrator handles the billing for the workspace.

Does Sunsama include AI?

Yes.

Sunny is Sunsama's built-in AI assistant and can help manage tasks, plan the day, work with the backlog, timebox work, and summarize completed work.

The current Pro pricing page includes AI as part of the subscription.

Is Sunsama worth $22 per month?

It can be if you regularly use its guided planning, calendar timeboxing, workload planning, integrations, weekly rituals, and AI.

If you only need basic task management, cheaper alternatives are likely to offer better value.

Is SelfManager.ai cheaper than Sunsama?

Yes.

SelfManager.ai currently costs $8/month or $72/year for an individual, compared with Sunsama at $22/month or $204/year.

However, SelfManager does not currently provide Sunsama's equivalent integration and calendar-timeboxing workflow, so the products should not be compared on price alone.

Can I cancel Sunsama at any time?

Yes.

Sunsama's current billing documentation says a paid subscription can be canceled through the billing portal, and access continues until the end of the current billing cycle.