What you can do without a plan

When you're done, you know what your account can do without a plan, and how to get one.

Who this is for: people without a Chirp Builder plan: you've just signed up, or your plan has ended or isn't active. There's no free plan.

What your dashboard shows

The Your plan card (1) says No plan, with "Choose a plan to build your own Chirps. You can still work in any workspace someone shares with you." and "Plans aren't on sale online yet. To get one now, email joanaltres@dfydata.com." The AI account card (2) says Not needed yet: you connect your OpenRouter key once you have a plan.

What you can do

• Log in, and change your name and username in Settings: see Change your name, username or email.
• Read these guides.
• Work in any workspace someone shares with you. There, the role they gave you decides what you can do, and the workspace runs on their plan. Accepting their invitation doesn't need a plan. See Working in a workspace someone shared with you.
• Keep the Chirps you already have: export them with Export all on the Chirps page (in each of your workspaces, if you had more than one), and archive, bring back or delete them. See Export Chirps and import a package and Duplicate, archive or delete a Chirp.
• Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app. It can look at your account but not build: see Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app.
• Write to us about plans and billing from Help, in Ask us: see Ask us for help.

What needs a plan

• Creating Chirps. There's no Create Chirp button, and Import says "Choose a plan first" and "Creating Chirps needs a Chirp Builder plan. Every plan has unlimited Chirps on your own OpenRouter key."
• Changing a Chirp. Saving says "Choose a Chirp Builder plan to create or change Chirps."
• Connecting your OpenRouter key. Without a plan, your Chirps don't answer. Visitors see "This Chirp is temporarily unavailable. Please check back later." They're never told about plans.
• Folders, Collections, lead forms, email services, custom domains, branding, website embedding, Actions, inviting a team and the Academy. Each place tells you which plans it comes with.
• Accepting a workspace someone hands over to you, because its Chirps would answer with your own OpenRouter key.
• Help with anything other than plans and billing.

When a plan ends

Your Chirps and their knowledge files stay in your account, and you can still export them. They stop answering visitors, but keep their links: once the account has a plan again and an OpenRouter key connected, they answer at the same addresses.

Get a plan

Plans can't be bought online yet. Email joanaltres@dfydata.com, or write to us from Help about Plan and billing. We set the plan on your account by hand, and your dashboard and Billing page then show it. To choose one, see Compare plans and prices.

Good to know

• In your own workspaces, your plan counts. In someone else's workspace, theirs does.
• See plans always opens your Billing page.

If it doesn't work

• "Choose a Chirp Builder plan to create or change Chirps." Your account has no plan. Get one, or work in a workspace someone shared with you.
• "You don't have a plan, so you can write to us about plans and billing. Help with everything else comes with every Chirp Builder plan." This shows in Ask us, which then offers only Plan and billing.