Is Sunsama Free? Trial Length and Real Cost

Sunsama is not free. There is no free tier, no capped free plan, and nothing you can keep using once the trial ends. What Sunsama offers is a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and after that it's a paid product or nothing.

That's the honest headline. The more useful question — and the one this post answers — is whether a fourteen-day window is enough to evaluate a tool whose entire value proposition is a daily habit, and what the two-year cost actually looks like.

The trial, precisely

From Sunsama's pricing page:

• 14 days free.
• No credit card required.
• Unlimited access to all features during the trial.

That last point matters more than it sounds. Plenty of trials are the paid product minus the interesting parts, so you evaluate a version nobody actually buys. Sunsama's isn't — you get the real thing for two weeks, and the page frames the whole model as "only pay if you love it."

The no-credit-card detail is worth naming too. It means the trial genuinely expires rather than silently converting into a charge, which removes the most common way people end up paying for tools they abandoned in week one.

What Sunsama costs after the trial

One product, two billing cadences, plus a sales-led tier.

At $17/month billed yearly, the annual commitment comes to $204 per year. Paying month-to-month at $22 costs $264 across the same twelve months — about $60 more for the flexibility to leave.

Pro is described simply: unlimited usage, unlimited integrations, and AI plus MCP and Zapier. There's no feature ladder to climb — everyone on Pro has the same Sunsama.

Enterprise exists for organisations that need SSO and SAML, SCIM provisioning and audit logs, and custom privacy, compliance, integration, or billing arrangements. No public price; it's a conversation with their team.

You can cancel at any point, and Sunsama's FAQ states you keep access until the end of the billing cycle you've already paid for.

One warning: the same page quotes two different per-person prices

Worth knowing before you budget, especially if more than one of you is going to use it.

The plan card at the top says $17/month billed yearly, $22/month billed monthly. Scroll to the FAQ on that same page — under "What happens if I invite colleagues to join my workspace?" — and it says "Sunsama costs $25/month per person ($20/month for yearly plans). So if you invited one teammate to your workspace, the total monthly cost would be $50."

Those are different numbers, and the page doesn't say which situation each one covers. Two readings are possible and we can't settle it from the outside:

• The FAQ is out of date. Elsewhere on the same page, Sunsama's pricing-philosophy section still discusses choosing between "$24.99 and $25.00," which suggests that prose was written at an earlier price point.
• The FAQ is about seats, not the base price. Its question is specifically about inviting colleagues, and a separate FAQ answer says "When someone is added to your Sunsama workspace, they will be added to your plan and your monthly bill will be updated automatically." On that reading, $25/$20 is what an added person costs, and it isn't stale at all.

What to do with that:

• Using it alone? The plan card governs, and it's unambiguous: $17/month yearly, $22/month monthly. Nothing here affects you.
• Adding teammates? Don't budget from either figure. Two people at the card rate would be $408/year; at the FAQ rate, $480/year. Confirm the per-seat number with Sunsama before you buy, because a 100%-certain answer isn't available on the page.

We flag it rather than resolving it because resolving it would mean guessing, and a wrong guess here costs real money.

Is 14 days enough to evaluate it?

This is the real risk with Sunsama specifically, and it's worth being blunt about.

Sunsama is a ritual, not a feature set. Each morning you pull tasks in and plan the day deliberately; each evening you run a shutdown review. The tool's value isn't that it can hold a task — every app can — it's whether that twice-daily ceremony survives your actual week.

Fourteen days gives you roughly ten working days. That's enough to learn the interface and probably enough to feel the initial glow. It is not obviously enough to know whether you'll still be doing the evening review in March.

Practical advice if you start the trial:

• Start on a Monday, and pick a normal week — not a quiet one and not a crisis one. A ritual tool tested during a calm week tells you nothing.
• Do the shutdown review every single evening, even when you don't want to. The days you don't want to are the ones that carry the signal.
• Connect your real calendar and one real task source on day one. Sunsama evaluated with fake data is a screensaver.
• Decide by day 10, not day 14. You want a couple of days of deliberate "would I miss this" before the window closes.

Is $204 a year fair?

Sunsama sits at the premium end of this category, and it doesn't pretend otherwise — the pricing page's own framing is "one plan for busy professionals."

For context on the same annual axis: TickTick Premium is $49.99/year, Akiflow is $19/month billed yearly ($228/year), and most all-in-one task managers land well under $100. Sunsama at $204/year is roughly four times a conventional task manager.

The case for paying it is narrow but real: if the thing you're broken on is deciding what to do today, and a structured planning ritual fixes that, then the cost per unit of avoided chaos is trivially worth it. The case against is equally simple: if you already know what to work on and just need somewhere to put it, you're paying premium prices for ceremony you'll skip by week three.

There is no free tier to fall back on, which sharpens the decision. With TickTick or Todoist you can lapse into a free plan and keep your data usable. With Sunsama, stopping payment means stopping.

The honest map of what is free nearby

If what you actually wanted was a free daily planner, the landscape:

• TickTick and Todoist run permanent free tiers with real task management, though neither ships Sunsama's planning ritual.
• Google Tasks is free and minimal.
• Akiflow, Sunsama's closest competitor, is also trial-only — 7 days, no free plan.
• Vyneron has a permanent free plan (below).

We compared the field properly in Sunsama alternatives.

How Vyneron compares

Deliberately last, so the Sunsama numbers stand without a sales pitch woven through them.

Vyneron answers "is it free?" with a plain yes:

• Free — $0 forever, no trial clock on the core app. Unlimited tasks, notes, and routines; Telegram and Slack integration; worldwide holiday coverage; 10 files / 50 MB storage. AI runs free for your first 7 days (50 messages/day), and after that you add a free Gemini or Groq key and keep AI on at $0 with 0% markup — you pay the provider directly, and a free-tier key costs nothing.
• Solo — $6/month or $59/year. 150 AI messages/day, unlimited voice transcription, 500 files / 2.5 GB.
• Multi — bracket pricing rather than per-seat: $12/mo ($119/yr) for 2–3 users, $20/mo ($199/yr) for 4–6, $35/mo ($349/yr) for 7–12, $60/mo ($599/yr) for 13–25.
• Enterprise — custom, 26+ users.
• 14-day money-back guarantee. The first 250 Founder members lock 33% off Solo yearly forever — $39 instead of $59.

On annual price that's $59 against $204. But price isn't the interesting difference — the two tools are aimed at different failure modes.

Sunsama's bet is that you'll sit down twice a day and plan with intention. Vyneron's bet is the opposite: that the ideas arrive while you're walking, and the tool should be wherever you already are. You message a Telegram or Slack bot with text, a voice note, or a photo, and it becomes a task or note with AI-suggested tags. Semantic search finds it later across tasks, notes, files, and transcripts in six languages. Recurring routines skip public holidays worldwide without you rescheduling anything, and BYOK keeps the AI bill from scaling with your usage.

If a planning ritual is what you're missing, Sunsama is the better-built version of that idea and worth its price. If what you're missing is capture — the thought that never made it into any system — the ritual isn't the fix.

Want the wider field? Read the best Sunsama alternatives, or try Vyneron free and see whether capture-first suits you better than plan-first.