Felo AI Free Plan in 2026: What You Actually Get Before Paying US$14.99 (Tested)

If you’ve searched “felo ai free usage limits 2026” and landed on a results page full of vague marketing copy, here’s the short version: Felo’s free plan is more generous than most AI search tools, but it isn’t unlimited across the board. This guide breaks down exactly what the free tier includes, where the caps sit, and when upgrading to Pro actually makes sense — based on Felo’s own pricing page.

What Felo’s Free Plan Actually Includes

Felo, the Japan-based AI search engine known for its strong Traditional Chinese localization, splits its free tier into three separate allowances rather than one blanket limit:

• Basic search: unlimited. There’s no daily cap on Felo’s standard search function on the free plan.
• Pro search: about 5 per day. This runs on a points system — free users get roughly 200 points per day, which resets at midnight, and each Pro search draws from that pool.
• File analysis: 3 per day. This is a separate allowance from Pro search, confirmed directly from Felo’s official site.

That’s a meaningfully different shape than “5 free searches and then you’re locked out,” which is how a lot of AI tools ration their free tier. Basic search stays open all day; it’s the AI-powered Pro search and file uploads that are metered.

Worth noting: the point-based system means the daily Pro search count isn’t a hard “5 and done” rule so much as a budget. Free users get about 200 points per day, and each Pro search spends from that pool — so in practice you get roughly 5 Pro searches, but the exact number could shift slightly if Felo changes how many points a single search costs. The reset happens at midnight, not on a rolling 24-hour basis, so it’s worth timing heavier research sessions around that if you’re relying on the free tier.

Free vs. Paid: What Changes

The Pro plan’s math is worth understanding before you pay for it. It isn’t “unlimited Pro search” — it’s a 15,000-point allowance per billing period. Once that’s used up, Felo doesn’t cut you off; it drops you to a cap of up to 300 Pro searches per day, which for most people is functionally unlimited. An earlier promotion giving Pro subscribers a 7-day Claude Opus 5 trial no longer appears on the pricing page as of 2026-09-16, so don’t count on it.

When You Actually Need to Pay

For most casual research — looking things up, quick fact-checking, general browsing-style search — Felo’s free plan covers it. Unlimited basic search means you’re not going to hit a wall doing everyday queries.

The free plan starts to feel tight in two specific situations:

1. You’re doing AI-assisted deep research daily. At roughly 5 Pro searches a day, heavy users will burn through the free allowance fast, especially if a single research task needs multiple follow-up queries.
2. You regularly upload documents for analysis. Three file analyses a day sounds like a lot until you’re going through a stack of PDFs or reports in one sitting.

If either of those describes your workflow, the math on Pro is straightforward: US$14.99/month gets you a 15,000-point pool plus a 300/day Pro-search floor once it’s spent — a large jump from the free daily allowance. Paying annually brings the effective cost down to US$12.5/month.

If you’re an occasional user who mostly needs basic search with the odd AI-assisted lookup, there’s no real reason to upgrade — the free tier is built to comfortably cover that use case. And if you’re on the fence, there’s little downside to starting on free: since basic search has no cap, you can use Felo daily for weeks before you’d ever bump into the Pro search or file analysis ceilings, giving you a real sense of your own usage pattern before paying anything.

Security and Privacy: Free vs Pro

A common question is whether the free plan is less private than Pro — for example, whether free-tier searches get used to train Felo’s models. Here’s what is and isn’t publicly documented, as of 2026-08-28.

What Felo does state. Felo’s published Enterprise privacy policy commits that user content will not be used as training data for the service’s AI models without the customer’s explicit consent (原文：「ユーザーコンテンツは、お客様の明示的な同意がある場合を除き、本サービスのAIモデルの学習データとして利用いたしません」). It also describes general safeguards and staff training around personal data.

The gap worth knowing about. That commitment appears in the Enterprise policy. Felo does not publish an equivalent, clearly separated statement covering the free and Pro consumer tiers, so there is no official basis for saying free-tier data is treated the same as Enterprise data — or that it isn’t. If training-data usage is a hard requirement for your work, that silence is itself the answer: treat it as unconfirmed rather than assuming either way, and ask Felo directly before putting sensitive material in.

Account security applies to every tier. According to a third-party security profile (Nudge Security, checked 2026-08-28 — an external assessment, not a Felo statement), Felo supports SSO along with Google and Microsoft sign-in, and lists SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP and CSA STAR Level 1 compliance. The same profile records no support for two-factor authentication of any kind — no TOTP app, SMS, email or hardware key. That is a genuine gap: on any tier, your Felo account is protected by your password (or your Google/Microsoft account’s own 2FA) alone, so signing in through an identity provider that you have already secured with 2FA is the safer route.

Practical takeaway. Paying for Pro buys you capacity, not a different privacy regime — there is no published evidence that Pro changes how your data is handled. For genuinely confidential material, the tier to look at is Enterprise, which is the only one with an explicit no-training commitment attached to it.

For the full breakdown of Felo’s pricing, free tier details, and how it stacks up against other AI tools, see the Felo tool page.

FAQ

Does Felo’s free Pro search limit reset every day? Yes. The free allowance is roughly 200 points per day (about 5 Pro searches), and it resets at midnight rather than accumulating or rolling over.

What happens when I run out of points on the Pro plan? You don’t lose access. Once the 15,000-point-per-period allowance is used up, Felo caps you at up to 300 Pro searches per day instead of cutting off Pro search entirely.

Is the annual Pro plan actually cheaper? Yes — billed annually, Pro works out to US$12.5/month (US$149.99/year) instead of US$14.99/month billed monthly, a savings of about 16%. The search and points allowance is the same either way.

Data in this article — free tier limits and Pro pricing — was last verified against Felo’s official pricing page on 2026-08-07. Felo’s pricing and quotas have changed multiple times in past months, so check the Felo tool page for the most current numbers before subscribing.