Answer First
Start with Felo AI Free when its daily allowance covers your real search and verification work. Test Pro only when a named credit, search, research, creation, or export limit repeatedly blocks an accepted deliverable.
Felo’s official credit-migration guide says the product moved from separate usage counts to a shared credit system in July 2025. That guide currently documents daily Free credits, plan-cycle Pro credits, separately expiring bonus credits, and feature-specific deductions. Because entitlements and checkout prices can change, verify every number in the signed-in Felo AI account before paying.
Current Credit Snapshot
The official migration guide was rechecked on August 13, 2026. It currently states:
| Balance or allowance | Current official description | Decision consequence |
|---|---|---|
| Free daily credits | 200 credits refresh each day and unused credits do not roll over | Test recurring work across several days; one large session is not a monthly allowance. |
| Free search trials | 5 Pro searches and 1 Research task per day, plus 3 Pro-model Playground runs | Measure which limit actually blocks the deliverable. |
| Pro plan credits | 15,000 credits per billing cycle; unused plan credits expire at cycle end | Budget from accepted work, not the headline balance. |
| Bonus credits | Available to active paying users and valid for 90 days | Treat them as a separate expiring purchase, not permanent rollover. |
| Search after credit exhaustion | The guide says Pro users retain up to 300 Pro searches or Pro-model Playground runs per day | Confirm the live account because credit-backed creation and search allowances are different surfaces. |
These are dated source facts, not permanent plan promises. The live account should confirm the balance, expiry date, feature cost, billing period, currency, tax, renewal price, model access, and cancellation terms.
Free vs. Pro Decision
| Stay on Free when | Test Pro when |
|---|---|
| Normal research fits the current daily credits and search allowance | A repeatable credit, search, Research, or export limit interrupts paid work |
| You are still testing source coverage and translation quality | A named paid feature can be tested against a defined acceptance criterion |
| Exports and creation tools are not required | The live plan documents a credit-backed feature you will actually use |
| You cannot yet measure time saved after verification | Verified time saved is likely to exceed the live renewal cost |
Do not count answer volume as value. A useful research result is a brief whose important claims survive source, date, language, and context checks.
Seven-Day Multilingual Test
Run the same evaluation before paying:
- Choose three recurring topics across at least two source languages.
- Write the expected primary sources before searching.
- Record searches completed, useful sources found, and important sources missed.
- Open every source used in the final brief; check publication date and original wording.
- Compare critical translated passages with the original and a second method or reviewer.
- Record the exact free limit or missing workflow that blocked completion.
- Record the feature’s live credit deduction, then price only the paid allowance that removes the blocker.
Cost per Accepted Brief
Use this calculation instead of “queries per month”:
(subscription + bonus credits + verification time) / accepted briefs
Include expired credits, failed searches, duplicate sources, translation review, and rework. A plan can offer more searches or credits yet cost more per accepted brief if results create extra verification work.
For a seven-day pilot, also calculate:
credits per accepted brief = all credits deducted / accepted briefs
Project that observed ratio across the billing cycle. Do not assume the maximum task examples in a plan equal your output, because feature choice, regeneration, context, and review standards change the result.
Source and Privacy Gates
- Prefer original publications over summaries of summaries.
- Check whether a translated claim preserves numbers, conditions, and negation.
- Do not upload confidential documents until the current privacy, retention, and account controls meet the data policy for the work.
- Keep a source table with URL, publisher, date, language, claim supported, and reviewer.
- Treat model and plan labels shown inside the current account as time-sensitive entitlements, not permanent promises.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Felo AI Free enough for daily research?
It can be if the current daily credits and search allowances cover your normal multilingual searches, source checks, and exports. Record a week of actual work and upgrade only when a named Pro benefit removes a repeated limit.
How do Felo AI credits work?
Felo’s official migration guide says features deduct different amounts from a shared credit pool. Free daily credits reset without rollover, Pro plan credits expire at the billing-cycle boundary, and separately purchased bonus credits have their own validity period.
How much does Felo AI Pro cost?
Use the price, billing period, currency, taxes, renewal terms, and included limits shown in the signed-in Felo checkout for your account and region. An old blog price or third-party table is not purchase truth.
Do unused Felo credits roll over?
The current official guide says unused Free daily credits reset, unused Pro plan credits expire at the end of the billing cycle, and bonus credits are valid for 90 days. Verify the expiry dates shown in the live account before purchase.
Does Felo AI replace source verification?
No. Open cited sources, confirm dates and translations, separate primary from secondary evidence, and keep uncertainty visible in the final brief.
Next Decision
- Compare a general research subscription with the Perplexity Pro decision guide.
- Use the DeepL starter guide when translation quality or API localization is the primary job.
- Use the Google AI subscription guide when the value depends on a Google account or Workspace workflow.
Source Review
The official Felo product and credit surfaces were checked on August 13, 2026. Exact prices, credit deductions, limits, feature names, models, promotions, and renewal terms should be reconfirmed in the live signed-in account.