Cadence ABA vs Motivity
Motivity is a clinically-driven, modern ABA platform connecting real-time data collection, scheduling, billing, and revenue-cycle management. Cadence ABA takes a different approach to the clinical core: voice-first capture and AI-assisted clinical reasoning, with a clinician signing every output.
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Which should you choose?
Motivity is the better fit for modern practices wanting a clean, real-time platform with transparent per-learner pricing. Cadence ABA is the better fit for clinical teams whose priority is the clinical core: capturing sessions by voice without losing presence with the child, getting phase-change and trend reads suggested for them (Clinical and up), and finishing with a billable note ready to sign.
Cadence focuses on clinical capture, reasoning, documentation, and compliance - not full revenue-cycle billing. Teams that need managed claim submission may pair it with a dedicated billing system.
Cadence ABA
- Approach
- Voice-first capture + AI-assisted clinical reasoning
- Pricing
- $18/active client per mo (Capture), $36 (Clinical), $42 (Practice, 15-client minimum) - unlimited users, no platform fee, published publicly
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial, self-serve, no credit card (Capture and Clinical)
- Best for
- Clinical teams who want presence with the child and notes that draft themselves
Motivity
- Approach
- Real-time tap-based capture, any device
- Pricing
- $24/learner per mo (Data Collection or PM); $48 All-in-One; unlimited users
- Free trial
- Free 2-week trial; demo also offered
- Best for
- Modern practices wanting a clean, real-time platform with transparent per-learner pricing
Where Motivity stands out
- Real-time data collection - graphs update the moment data is entered
- About 1,000 prebuilt program templates to use as-is or customize
- Published per-learner pricing with unlimited users, on any device or browser
Where Cadence is different
- Cadence captures by voice, hands-free; Motivity's real-time capture is tap-based.
- Cadence's AI interprets the trend in plain language and drafts the note from the same data - beyond rule-based phase transitions and real-time graphs.
- Cadence's tap grid keeps capturing with no signal; Motivity has chosen not to offer an offline mode.
Every one of those AI suggestions is one a clinician accepts or rejects - how we keep the AI accurate explains the guardrails, and HIPAA & BAA covers the compliance posture behind them.
Cadence ABA vs Motivity: questions
- How does Cadence ABA compare to Motivity?
- Motivity is a modern, clinically-driven platform with real-time tap-based data collection, about 1,000 program templates, and transparent per-learner pricing. Cadence shares the modern, transparent ethos but changes the capture model: clinicians speak through the session (voice-first, with a tap grid that works offline), and Cadence's AI suggests phase changes, interprets trends, and drafts the billable note for review and signature.
- Is Cadence cheaper than Motivity?
- On the data-collection tier, yes. Motivity lists $24 per learner per month for Data Collection, or $48 for its all-in-one platform. Cadence Capture is $18 per active client per month, and Cadence Clinical, which adds AI clinical reasoning, is $36. That puts Clinical above Motivity's data-collection tier and below its all-in-one. Both include unlimited users, so neither needs seat math. Motivity's all-in-one adds full billing and revenue-cycle management, where Cadence stops at pre-billing validation and an 837P export on Practice; Cadence includes scheduling and voice-first capture on every plan, and AI clinical reasoning from Clinical. Both publish pricing and offer a free trial.
- Can I move my data from Motivity to Cadence ABA?
- Cadence imports clients, targets, and past session data from CSV, so records exported from Motivity as CSV files can come with you, and historical graphs continue rather than restarting at your go-live date. The importer includes a column preset for Motivity exports that recognizes the column names Motivity commonly uses for clients and targets. For any column it does not recognize, Cadence suggests a mapping and flags rows that need a decision; nothing is committed until you confirm. CSV import is included on every plan.
For what Cadence costs and how it handles PHI, the pricing FAQ and the product FAQ hold the canonical answers.
Motivity details reflect publicly available information as of the date above and may change; where those materials did not settle a capability, the table says so. Verify current specifics with the vendor. Cadence figures come from our published pricing.