Free tier
What a free Foxl account includes, which work uses credits, and the limits that still apply
Foxl sells no subscription or credit top-up. Free accounts have access to the features below. Cloud models and Remote machines still use account credits, and services you connect with your own key or subscription can charge you separately.
What is included
| Feature | Free account access | What pays for usage |
|---|---|---|
| Foxl Agent on your computer | Chat, tools, browser control, memory, skills and schedules, subject to the model's capabilities and your permissions | Your provider key or subscription; local models use your own computer |
| Foxl Notes and voice input | Recording, editing, export and AI features with a supported transcription engine and model; transcription and voice input on your Foxl credits where nothing else can transcribe, with nothing to set up | Your transcription/model provider; on-device transcription and models use no Foxl credits; transcription on Foxl credits, about 0.4 a minute of audio |
| Phone and web access to your computer | Included when you sign in with the same account and your computer is reachable | No Foxl subscription; the provider running the work keeps its own billing |
| Workspaces, members, Channels, DMs and huddles | Included | No workspace storage or Channels charge when the workspace's billing owner is on Free |
| Files uploaded to a workspace | A workspace whose billing owner is on Free accepts no shared-file uploads | Shared text documents and skills have separate limits |
| Foxl Code's managed chat and coding agents | Available to accounts admitted to the private beta, including Free; all models in the managed Code catalog are eligible | Account credits for models and Remote compute |
| Foxl Code on This computer | Uses the local execution option and your own logins | Your computer and model access; no Remote compute or managed model debit |
Free access does not turn on optional features or permissions for you. Connect the providers you want to use, enable optional settings, and grant access to the computer or repository when needed. The Code access request is separate from your credit balance.
Which features still need account access?
Foxl-hosted Agent models are not a plan feature: they are served only to accounts enabled for that service, today a short list, whatever the plan. On every other account, Free included, the Foxl entry does not appear in the model picker, in Settings > Model & provider or in Foxl Notes' AI settings, and a request sent to it anyway is refused with 409 hosted_inference_disabled. Buying a plan is not a remedy. Transcription on your Foxl credits, Notes' Foxl Relay engine, is not on that list: every account signed in to Foxl, Free included, can use it.
Remote chat, which can answer while your computer is offline, also has its own availability and opt-in. Where Haiku-only cloud chat is offered, it uses your credits and has a $0.50 spending limit per turn, plus service capacity limits. The separate cloud pilot can offer more models with a $10 limit per turn and Notes AI while the computer is offline. Haiku-only chat access does not itself include those Notes jobs. Both cloud-chat paths allow at most two answering conversations at once. A turn's final step can finish above its spending limit.
For ordinary desktop work, use your own model access. See Cost & model access for each billing path and Notes credits & privacy for transcription.
How many credits do I get?
| Grant | Amount | When it arrives | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| New account using Google, Apple or GitHub | 200 credits | Once at signup | No monthly expiry |
| New account using email, with a password or a sign-in link | 50 credits | Once at signup, or with your first request when many accounts signed up from your network that day | No monthly expiry |
| Monthly Free allowance | 10 credits | On your signup day-of-month at 00:00 UTC, starting the following month | The next monthly refresh |
Welcome credits are granted once per mailbox. Signing in another way, reinstalling or recreating an account does not create another welcome allowance. Monthly credits do not roll over; unused welcome credits remain available. When a month has no matching signup day, the refresh uses that month's last day and returns to the original day in the next month.
The wallet is shared across managed model work and compute. One credit has a displayed value of $0.04 and covers $0.036 of model-provider cost. A credit is not a fixed number of messages: model choice, input, output, reasoning, cache usage and tool calls change the cost.
What limits still apply?
| Limit | Free account |
|---|---|
| Managed model requests | 200 in a rolling 24 hours, shared by Code chat and its coding agents; remote-chat turns are excluded from this count |
| Managed model requests running at once | Up to 32, with enough available credits for each request |
| Managed coding tasks started from a prompt | Up to 4 during the first 7 days of the account, then up to 32; credit-based admission can lower either number |
| All open Remote tasks, including terminals and vendor-key agents | Limited by what the balance funds for an hour of compute per task, about 6.4 credits each, with a floor of 5 slots and a service backstop of 200 tasks |
| Shared-file uploads to a workspace billed to a Free owner | 0 GB |
These are ceilings, not a promise that every slot can start. The positive-balance check, model reservations, backend availability and task budgets all still apply. For example, 100 credits fund 15 open compute slots, but an expensive model's initial reservation can allow fewer managed agents.
A model request is one call to the model, not one task or one message you type. An agent can make several calls to finish one task. The daily window moves with those requests; it does not reset at your monthly credit refresh.
What happens when credits run out?
New managed model requests and new Remote tasks are refused. Requests already in progress can hold part of a positive balance, so a request can also be refused before the displayed balance reaches zero. Those reservations are released when the request settles; a cut-off request normally releases its hold within about 90 seconds, and a long-running one can take up to 15 minutes.
Remote compute is settled after it runs. Work already admitted can leave a negative balance, and a task budget is a soft spending ceiling. New grants first pay down that debt; only the remainder is spendable. If a grant is smaller than the debt, the unpaid part carries forward. An amount already repaid is not deducted again at a later refresh. There is no automatic paid upgrade or credit purchase.
Your desktop Agent and Notes can keep using your own provider or local model independently of this wallet. Resume managed work once enough credits remain after any debt, or use the local option where it fits. See Budgets and tiers for compute and task-budget details.
Where do I check my usage?
At code.foxl.ai, open Settings > Account to see credits, the next refresh date and model/compute usage. A grant is shared by the account's devices; signing in on a phone does not give it a second allowance.
If a feature is missing, first check its access requirement above. If work is refused, distinguish insufficient credits, too many requests in flight, daily rate limit, storage quota, and service not enabled. They need different remedies; none is an instruction to buy a plan.