# What you can do without a plan

> An account without a plan can work in shared workspaces, export its Chirps and ask about plans, but can't build. Here's what works, what doesn't, and how to get a plan.

Source: https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/account-billing/no-plan  
Last checked: 2026-10-27

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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#openrouter) key once you have a plan.

![Sam's dashboard without a plan: Welcome, Sam; the Your plan card saying No plan, Choose a plan to build your own Chirps, that work in shared workspaces still works, and that plans aren't on sale online yet, with the email address to get one (1); the AI account card saying Not needed yet (2); then Messages this month, AI cost this month and Chirps, all at zero, and the start of Your Chirps.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/account-billing/no-plan/SS-BILL-015-01__no-plan-dashboard__none__desktop__v01.webp?v=dec5c0c442)

## What you can do

- Log in, and change your name and username in **Settings**: see
  [Change your name, username or email](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/account-billing/profile).
- 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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/business-teams/shared-workspace).
- 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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/chirps/export-and-import) and
  [Duplicate, archive or delete a Chirp](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/chirps/duplicate-archive-delete).
- Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app. It can look at your account but not build: see
  [Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/chirps/connect-ai-app).
- Write to us about plans and billing from **Help**, in **Ask us**: see [Ask us for help](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/support/ask-us).

## 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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#collection), 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.**

![The Choose a plan first card on the Import page of an account without a plan: Creating Chirps needs a Chirp Builder plan. Every plan has unlimited Chirps on your own OpenRouter key. Below it, the note that plans aren't on sale online yet, with the email address to get one, and See plans.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/account-billing/no-plan/SS-BILL-015-02__choose-plan-first__none__detail__v01.webp?v=6bf031635f)

## 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](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/account-billing/billing-page) then show it. To choose one, see
[Compare plans and prices](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/account-billing/plans).

## 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**.