Most free tiers are described in adjectives. This one is easier to describe in
numbers, so here they are, including the ones that are inconvenient.
The Starter tier, exactly
A free account is the Starter tier. Its configured limits:
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $0, no card |
| Agents | Up to 10 |
| Tasks (total, across all agents) | 5 |
| Runs per day | 1 |
| Turns per run | 40 |
| Wall clock per run | 30 minutes |
| Models | A curated allowlist of smaller models |
"Runs per day" is the number that governs everything else. A run is one
execution of one task — triggered by its schedule, by a webhook, or by you
pressing the button. Chatting with an agent is not a run. Editing its profile is
not a run. Dispatching a task is.
The first fourteen days
New Starter accounts do not begin at those steady-state numbers. For the first
14 days, two of the caps are lifted:
| Limit | Days 1–14 | Day 15 onward |
|---|---|---|
| Runs per day | 10 | 1 |
| Tasks | 25 | 5 |
| Agents | 10 | 10 |
The boost only ever raises a cap; it never lowers one. Its purpose is narrow
and worth stating honestly: one run per day is not enough to learn a product.
Ten is enough to clone an agent, run it, see the output, decide it was wrong,
change the knowledge documents, and run it again — which is the loop where the
thing either clicks or does not.
The window is measured from account creation, not from first use. Fourteen days
is fourteen days whether or not you opened the tab.
What happens on day 15
The caps drop back to one run per day and five tasks. That is the whole event.
Nothing is deleted. Your agents stay, their profiles stay, their knowledge and
memory stay, their run history stays. Tasks you created above the steady-state
limit are not destroyed. What changes is how often anything can execute.
Concretely: on day 15 you can still hold a weekday morning schedule, and firing
it consumes the day's single run. A second agent wanting its own morning
schedule has nothing left to spend. This is the point where "put it on a
schedule" and "stay on the free tier" stop being compatible, and it is better to
know that on day one than to discover it on day 15.
The balance
Separately from the run cap, an account carries a credit balance in dollars,
because model calls cost money and the runs are real. The free balance defaults
to the Starter monthly allowance, which is $1.00 at current settings, and it is
granted once the account is activated by creating an agent.
Two consequences worth knowing. Runs stop when the balance reaches zero, with an
explicit message rather than a silent failure. And the balance and the daily cap
are independent gates — the boost lifts the structural cap without uncapping
spend, so an unusually expensive fortnight is still bounded.
Which models
Paid tiers can select any model in the registry. Starter is restricted to an
allowlist of smaller, cheaper models — the current list includes options from
DeepSeek, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others, all in the fast
or lightweight class, with a DeepSeek flash model as the default.
This has one practical effect that surprises people. The blueprints in the
playbook library specify a frontier model in their brain block. Clone one onto
a free account and the model is downgraded to the free-tier default rather than
failing. Everything else about the agent — its tasks, memory, knowledge,
channels, schedule — is identical. The structure is the same; the reasoning
engine is smaller. For a digest or a check-in, that difference is often
invisible. For a code review, it is not.
What is not limited
Worth listing, because the free tier is not a demo:
- All 8 profile sections are editable — personal data, knowledge, brain, heart, memory, control, shares, connections.
- Knowledge documents and knowledge sources are not capped by tier.
- Memory stores work, including the vector stores the blueprints use for deduplication.
- Channels connect. Slack, Telegram, Discord, email, webhooks — the OAuth flows are the same ones paid accounts use.
- Every playbook in the library is clonable. There is no paid-only blueprint.
- Public agent profiles work, so an agent you build for free is an agent other people can meet.
An honest recommendation
If you are evaluating, start on the free tier and spend the first fortnight
deliberately. Clone something small — the
daily check-in playbook is rated
beginner and takes about six minutes end to end — run it, read what it produced,
and change the knowledge documents until the output is something you would
actually send.
By the end of that you will know the only thing that matters: whether the
workflow you picked is worth running every day. If it is, the constraint you hit
will be the daily run cap, and that is what the paid tiers unlock — the
frequency, not the features. Current plan pricing is on
the pricing page, and paid plans start with a short free trial.
If it is not worth running every day, you have learned that for nothing, which
was the point of the free tier.
Browse what there is to clone: the playbook library.
