Motion The Agency vs Superside (An Honest Subscription Comparison)

TL;DR

• Superside is the strongest choice for enterprise teams that want one subscription covering every creative discipline, design, video, photo, 3D, AR and AI production, and have the budget for an enterprise partner.
• Motion The Agency is the strongest choice for SaaS and B2B teams whose main ongoing need is video, and who want specialist 2D and 3D motion graphics, dedicated sound design, and a partner that publishes its prices.
• The clearest difference is transparency. Both companies sell subscriptions and one-off projects. Only one of them will tell you the price before you talk to sales.
• This article is updated on July 2026. Every Superside fact below comes from superside.com, checked at that date. Where a number isn't public, we say so & tell you who reported it.

If you’re currently weighing your options and it comes down to either Motion The Agency or Superside, chances are you already know a single video won't be enough and you need a long term video production partner. Product updates keep shipping, campaigns keep launching, and every one of them needs video that looks like it came consistently from the same brand. So you're not really shopping for a video anymore.

Before we go any further, we're Motion The Agency, so one of the two names in this comparison is ours. Superside is a strong, established company with an enviable client list, and pretending otherwise would make this article useless to you. So here's the honest version, including where they're the better pick. Everything below comes from public pages, and where Superside doesn't publish a number, we say so instead of guessing.

The comparison at a glance

All claims taken from each company's own public pages, last checked July 2026.

Why this decision deserves more care

The way we see it, a design subscription isn't just a purchase, it's a relationship. Whoever you choose will learn your product, your brand and your review habits, and that knowledge will bring more benefits over time. Month three is going to be faster than month one, and month twelve work will be even faster. Which also means switching later is expensive, because the next partner starts from zero. So it's worth getting the fit right before you commit, not after.

Superside is enterprise creative on subscription

Superside describes itself as "your creative team's creative team", and the model matches the tagline. Its Flex subscription gives you a senior creative team that flexes with your workload, and unused budget rolls over month to month. The scope is genuinely enormous. One subscription covers design, video, photo, UI and UX, illustration, motion, 3D, AR, audio, creative strategy and a growing stack of AI services, including custom AI builds and AI training for your own team. Every account gets a dedicated project manager, the company says it serves over 400 top global brands, and the client list includes Microsoft, Reddit, Amazon Pharmacy and Colgate-Palmolive. A Forrester study it commissioned reports a 94% return over three years.

Superside pricing is the hardest part to evaluate, because Superside doesn't publish it. You book a demo, describe your needs, and a quote comes back. Procurement platforms and reviewer data consistently describe five-figure monthly budgets and annual commitments, but because none of that is on Superside's own site, we can't state it as fact and neither can anyone else. What we can say is what that missing price list means in practice. If you're a smaller team, you can't easily check whether Superside fits your budget without going through a sales process first.

The other consideration is focus. Video is one discipline among the twenty-plus that your budget can be spent on, produced by a broad team rather than a video-only studio. For an enterprise consolidating everything, that flexibility is exactly the point. For a team whose creative need is mostly video, it means paying for a tool built to do much more than the thing you need.

So, here's our verdict, pick Superside when you're an enterprise that wants every creative discipline under one subscription, and video is one stream inside a much bigger operation.

Motion The Agency is a video-first subscription

Now for our side, and we held it to the same standard. We are Motion The Agency, a UK-based studio specialising in premium 2D and 3D animation for SaaS and B2B brands, and our subscription is built for teams that need video continuously rather than occasionally. You get a dedicated project manager, a consistent team that learns your product, and a predictable monthly cost. Our subscription starts from £2,920 per month, and that figure is transparently published, not revealed only after a sales call.

What does a subscription month actually look like? ClickUp runs its video and motion work through ours, more than 30 projects in the first six months, and buying the same scope project by project would have cost £101,872 more. Same work, same standard, 55% less. Mirakl came to us for one 2-minute explainer and within 7 months the work had grown to 8 projects and more than 30 videos. Planful ran a 12-month subscription that produced a video marketing plan and more than 100 assets across four brands. Not to mention OBRIZUM has taken hundreds of animations from us across two years. The pattern is the same in each case. Briefs go in, edited videos come back in days rather than weeks, and the library of reusable brand assets grows every month.

Three things make our version of the model different from Superside's. First, the craft is specialist. Everything is made by a video-first team, with an in-house sound designer building the audio alongside the animation, and both premium 2D and full 3D animation under one roof. Second, everything is priced in the open. The subscription figure is public, and if you only need a single video, our pricing page publishes a full per-project rate card from £2,700, with timelines listed next to every price. Third, you can test us before committing to anything. We'll build you a free custom sample, a storyboard or short animated clip based on your actual product, delivered in 1 to 3 business days on average. Superside's equivalent first step is a demo call.

And here's where we're not the pick. If your subscription needs to cover packaging, print, web design, photography and AI tooling for a global brand, that's what Superside is built for, and we'd be the wrong choice. We do video and the design that surrounds it, deliberately, because specialising is what keeps the quality high.

So, here's the takeaway, pick Motion The Agency when video is your main ongoing creative need, and you want specialist craft with prices you can see today.

Head to head on the three parameters that matter

1. Pricing and transparency

Both companies sell subscriptions and both sell one-off fixed-price projects, so the honest difference isn't the menu, it's the visibility. Our subscription price, our per-project rate card and our timelines are all published. Superside's are not, on any plan. If your procurement process needs numbers before a call, only one of these partners can give them to you, and if you want a second opinion on price, our video cost calculator will produce an estimate in about two minutes without asking for your email.

2. Depth versus range

Superside's strength is range. Twenty-plus creative services, AI production, and a team that can staff almost any request. Our strength is depth in one lane. A video-first team, specialist sound design on the work rather than stock audio dropped in at the end, and 2D and 3D craft that holds up next to anything in the category. Neither approach is wrong. The question is whether your next twelve months of creative work looks like everything, or looks like video.

3. Risk before you commit

This is the sharpest practical difference. Superside offers a demo call, and by all public accounts expects a serious commitment once you sign. We'll make you real custom work through our free sample offer before you spend anything, and our subscription is designed so you can scale output up or down as your needs change. Bigger partnerships tend to start exactly this way. Mirakl came to us for one 2-minute explainer, and within 7 months the work had grown to 8 projects and more than 30 videos. If you're the kind of buyer who trusts finished work more than a pitch deck, that difference decides it.

Which one fits your situation?

Case A. You're an enterprise consolidating all creative. You need design systems, campaign assets, photography, video and AI production across multiple markets, and you have the budget of a company that needs all that. Pick Superside. This is its home game, and no video-specialist studio should pretend otherwise.

Case B. You're a SaaS or B2B team where video is the engine. Product explainers, feature launches, social cuts, UI animations, month after month, and you care how they look and sound. Pick Motion The Agency. That's the exact situation our subscription was built for, and the free sample means you can verify the craft before spending anything.

Case C. You're not sure you need a subscription yet. Totally fair. Start with a single project instead. Both companies will sell you one, but only one publishes what it costs. Our rate card starts at £2,700 per video, and the free video sample is the cheapest possible way to find out whether the quality justifies going bigger.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Superside and Motion The Agency both run genuine subscription models, and the right choice depends on the shape of your creative demand rather than on either company's marketing. Superside gives enterprises one partner for every discipline, with serious scale and a client list to match. Motion The Agency gives SaaS and B2B teams a video-first partner with specialist 2D and 3D craft, dedicated sound design, and pricing you can read without booking a call.

When you're weighing the two, be honest about what your next year of creative work actually looks like. If it spans every format across global markets, breadth wins. If video carries most of it, depth wins, and paying for twenty services to get one done well is an expensive way to buy a video. Whichever way you lean, insist on seeing real work and real numbers before you commit to a partner you'll be briefing every week.

We can help with both of those today. If you feel we could be a great fit for your project, feel free to request a free sample and book a call with us. Let's bring your vision to life!

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