Deelo's Free Plan: What's Included and Who It's For

Deelo's free plan exists for two reasons, and they are both worth saying out loud.

The first is that small operators should be able to get real value out of a tool before they are asked to pay for it. A freelancer running a one-person consulting business shouldn't have to commit a credit card to find out whether the CRM actually fits their workflow. A founder pre-revenue shouldn't have to budget for software they haven't decided to depend on yet. The free plan is the way those people get to actually use the product, not look at a marketing site and a 14-day countdown.

The second is that we wanted to be honest about what kind of free we mean. The Deelo free plan is not a trial in disguise. It does not convert to paid after 14 days. It does not require a credit card on file to start. You can stay on it for as long as it works for you, and the only reason to leave is that your team grew or your usage outgrew the caps. This post is the long-form answer to what you actually get, who it is for, and when you should plan to upgrade.

The headline: 1 user, all 40+ apps, real usage limits per app, an AI Assistant credit allowance every month, and community support. No credit card required, no expiry date, no "upgrade to unlock" walls on individual apps.

If you are uncertain about a specific limit on the current plan, the canonical source is the pricing page. We update it when limits change. This post is the explanation; the pricing page is the contract.

Being honest about what is gated is more useful than padding the included list. The free plan stops at the line where the product becomes a multi-user system or a serious revenue tool. Here is what sits on the other side of that line:

There are four kinds of people who should sign up for the free plan and stay on it as long as it works:

Worth being equally direct about. The free plan is not a fit if any of the following are true:

We have watched enough customers stretch the free plan past its useful range to know what it costs them. Three friction patterns show up:

Hitting a usage cap mid-month is unrecoverable. If you hit the invoice cap on the 14th of the month, you cannot create another invoice until you upgrade or until the next billing cycle resets. That is fine when you are testing. It is painful when you are actually running a business and a customer needs an invoice today. The free plan is for testing, not for production load.

The single-user constraint forces fake-user workarounds. People share logins. They create "team accounts" with shared email addresses. They use the assistant on someone else's session. All of these break audit trails, create security risk, and make it harder to migrate cleanly when you do upgrade. If you have a team, the right move is to start on Starter, not to stretch the free plan.

The 50-credit AI allowance is meaningful for testing, not for daily use. Fifty credits is enough to try the assistant on five or six real tasks, decide whether it is worth more, and form a calibrated opinion. It is not enough to use the assistant as a daily driver — that runs you out by the second week, and then you are looking at a wall every time you want to ask a question. The free plan is the right place to discover whether the AI is worth paying for. It is the wrong place to actually depend on it.

The trigger is usually one of five things. You don't need to upgrade on a calendar — you upgrade when you cross one of these lines:

When you do upgrade, the most common path is from Free to Starter. Starter is $19 per seat per month (or $15 effective when billed annually). It is the plan that turns Deelo from a solo-operator tool into a small-team tool.

What Starter adds over Free:

For a 3-person team, that is $57/month for what would otherwise be a multi-tool stack at several hundred dollars. The upgrade math is usually obvious by the time the trigger event happens. For most small teams, Starter is where Deelo lives long-term. Business and Enterprise are for the moment you need SSO, API access, or higher AI allowances.

Free plans in B2B SaaS come in a few different shapes, and it is worth saying which shape Deelo's is so you can compare it fairly to what else you are looking at.

Some all-in-one platforms ship a free tier with unlimited users but heavy feature gates. You get many seats but a long list of "upgrade to access" walls on individual features. This shape works well for teams that need broad-but-shallow access for a lot of people. It works less well for solo operators who want depth.

Some category-leader tools (CRM, helpdesk, marketing) offer a free tier of that single product. You get one tool free and pay for the others. This works well if you only need one. It does not solve the integration tax problem if you eventually want three or four.

Deelo's free plan is shaped around a single-user, full-platform model. One seat, all the apps, real (but limited) caps. The bet is that a solo operator who wants to consolidate is best served by being able to actually use every app — even if they can only use them at small scale — rather than being told they get "CRM and helpdesk free, everything else is paid."

Neither shape is objectively better. They are designed for different buyers. Deelo's is for the solo operator or the founder doing self-paced evaluation. If your situation is different, one of the other shapes might fit you better, and that is a fair conversation to have rather than a marketing claim to make.

Go to /register. Create an account with email and password (or sign in with Google). No credit card. No "choose your plan" gate — you land on Free by default. Your workspace is yours, the apps are all installed, and you can start working in minutes.

If you decide to upgrade later, it is in Settings → Billing. You can move from Free to Starter, Business, or Enterprise without rebuilding your workspace — everything you've done on the free plan migrates with you. The only thing the upgrade changes is the cap and the feature set; the data and the work you've already put in stays exactly where it was.

The free plan is the easiest way to find out whether Deelo fits your business. The honest answer is that it works well for some people and not others, and the right way to find out which group you are in is to actually use it for a couple of weeks. If it doesn't fit, you have lost no money. If it does, the upgrade to Starter is the cleanest path forward — same workspace, same data, just more headroom.