Routine vs Sunsama

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Routine

Planner combining tasks, calendar and notes, with an AI assistant

Free plan · from $5/mo

Sunsama

Daily planner with guided planning routines and calendar timeboxing

Free trial · from $17/mo

Where they differ

Routine starts at $5 per month, billed yearly. Sunsama starts at $17 per user / month, billed yearly ($204).
Routine has a free plan. Sunsama does not, though it has a free trial.
Routine also covers meeting notes and notes.
Sunsama also covers auto-scheduling, Pomodoro timer and goals.

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	Routine	Sunsama
Pricing	Free plan	Free trial
Starts at	$5 per month, billed yearly	$17 per user / month, billed yearly ($204)
Free plan	Tasks, calendars and notes, AI assistant and voice commands, offline mode, 3 integrations, 3 custom databases and 250 AI credits.	None
Free trial	None listed	14-day free trial with access to all features, no credit card required.
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Made by	Routine International Inc.	Summay, Inc.
Price read from	routine.co	sunsama.com
Checked	Oct 4, 2026	Oct 4, 2026

Routine

Sunsama

Routine

The Free plan is capped at 3 integrations, 3 custom databases and 250 AI credits.
Time blocking and time boxing are not part of the Free plan; they start with Personal.
AI meeting notes, AI agents, automations and time tracking require Professional or higher.
Routine's download page says the web app is 30% slower than the desktop apps and lacks some functionality.

Sunsama

There is no free plan. Workspace access stops when the 14-day trial ends unless you subscribe.
The $17 rate requires paying $204 per user for the year; monthly billing is $22 per user.
SSO, SAML, SCIM and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan, which has no public price.
Workspace data is permanently deleted 30 days after a cancelled subscription ends.

Routine

Planner and calendar: Plan the day in a view that combines tasks with events from connected calendars such as Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Time blocking starts on the Personal plan.
Dashboard hotkey: A desktop hotkey opens a dashboard for creating tasks quickly and adding context to them without switching apps.
Universal inbox: Imports tasks, messages and notifications from connected apps and services into one inbox.
Notes and custom databases: Notes, a journal and pages sit alongside tasks. Custom databases model your own object types: 3 on Free, 10 on Personal and unlimited from Professional.
AI meeting notes: Records meetings without a meeting bot and generates a summary with the transcript and original audio. Requires the Professional plan.
AI assistant, agents and MCP: An AI assistant and voice commands are in every plan. AI agents and automations need Professional, and MCP connects Routine to assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude.

Sunsama

Guided daily planning: A step-by-step routine: review yesterday, add today's tasks, check the predicted workload and set the order. Sunsama can prompt you to start at a set time.
Timeboxing: Drag a task to a time slot, or press X to auto-schedule it. The block shows up in Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar, or on Sunsama's internal calendar.
Tasks from other tools: Bring in work from Asana, Trello, Jira, Linear, Notion, Todoist, Gmail, Slack and others, and plan it alongside tasks created in Sunsama.
Focus mode and Pomodoro: Work on one task at a time with a timer, Pomodoro intervals, break reminders and the option to mute other apps.
Weekly planning and review: A weekly prompt to review where time went and what got done, then set objectives for the week ahead.
AI estimates and channels: Suggests a time estimate and a channel for each new task, based on work you have previously added to Sunsama.

Routine

Free$0
Tasks, calendars and notes, AI assistant, voice commands, offline mode, 3 integrations, 3 custom databases and 250 AI credits.
Personal$5
per month, billed yearly
Adds time blocking, time boxing, event coloring, exporting, unlimited file uploads, 10 integrations, 10 custom databases and 500 AI credits.
Professional$10
per month, billed yearly
Adds AI meeting notes, AI agents and automations, time tracking, a menu bar widget, unlimited integrations and databases, and 7,000 AI credits.
Business$15
per seat / month, billed yearly
Adds an organization with workspaces, access control, versioning, consolidated billing, priority support and 10,000 AI credits per seat.
EnterpriseCustom
Adds unlimited history, compliance, audit logs, analytics, user provisioning and a success manager.

Sunsama

Pro$17
per user / month, billed yearly ($204)
The one self-serve plan: unlimited usage and integrations, AI, MCP and Zapier. $22 per user / month when billed monthly.
EnterpriseCustom
Adds SSO and SAML, SCIM, audit logs and custom privacy and data requirements.

Routine

Annual discount
Up to 38% off on yearly plans
Routine's pricing page marks its yearly prices as 38% off for Personal and 17% off for Professional and Business.
Startups
Startup program: Business plan free for a year
Startups with under $2 million in funding and fewer than 20 employees can apply for the Business plan free for one year, worth up to $2,500.

Sunsama

Annual discount
Save $60 per user with yearly billing
Sunsama charges $204 per user once a year ($17 per month) on the yearly plan, against $22 per user each month ($264 a year) on monthly billing.
Education
Student discount on request
Actively enrolled college students can email support from a student address to get a discount. It lasts until graduation or four years, whichever comes first.
Nonprofit
Non-profit pricing on request
Sunsama's billing guide says it offers non-profit plans. Organizations apply by sending proof of non-profit status to support.