Employee, student, team member. The account is yours and it goes with you.
Individuals is not a market Xuda sells to. It is the free account every person already holds before an organisation ever hires them. Joining an organisation attaches your existing account to that organisation's projects, it does not create a second one: the invitation looks you up by email across the whole platform and hangs the access on the uid you already have. Hold roles in several organisations at once and there is still one login. When you leave, only the access goes away, because your profiles, drive, contacts and chats live in your own space. The rung is titled Try, it costs nothing, and nothing on it runs a trial clock.
What an employee, a student and a team member actually do here.
Three jobs, one per type, each start to finish on the free rung. Ordinary weeks rather than showcases, which is the point: nothing below needs a card, and each one names where it stops.
- 01
The employee changes employer and changes nothing else
A new employer invites you by the email you already use. The invite is resolved against every account on the platform before anything is created, so you are added to their project as a developer, an admin or a group member on the login you already have, and the seat is paid on their side of the line. Work happens in their project. The files that are personally yours stay in My Drive, where you move, copy, rename and share them. Leaving retires that one access row and touches nothing else. The caveat: accepting a share overwrites the sidebar preference on your own account document.
- 02
The student ships coursework and ends with a link on a CV
Five projects in Studio, included on free with the same wording every paid tier carries, and 15 GB of Drive with a trash you restore from rather than a delete you regret. The AI starts at 30 credits and adds one every 24 hours, which is a real budget on the cheap models and about a session on the most expensive one. At the end there are two things to point at: a public profile at your own username, and a one-page site built or uploaded onto an instant xuda.site URL with SSL and a contact form. The custom domain is not on this tier, and neither are AI-generated images for it.
- 03
The team member works inside somebody else's project and owns their own half
You accept an invitation, and from then on things arrive rather than being bought. A mini app or an AI agent shared to you is written into your own app database carrying the id of whoever shared it, so it reads as shared with you. An agent share hands over a pointer rather than a copy, so it stays current as the owner edits it, and the activity trail records what moved: an instructions edit as a character count, a tool change as a count. A contact shared to you is copied under your uid with a fresh id, minus the private mood level the sharer kept.
Price of the Try rung. A $0 account never produces an invoice to fail
Drive, then $0.27 a GB a month on total size, not on the excess
Projects in Studio, and that cap is enforced in the backend
AI credits after the one-off welcome grant of 30, and they do not roll over
Seven kinds of person, and the one thing each of them came for.
None of these people bought anything. They are one account seen from seven different weeks of a life, and Xuda never asks which one you are: the rung is identical for all of them and only the part you touch differs. Each tile names the person, then the surface that serves them.
Four things people run on this rung without ever reaching for a card.
Not capabilities, four jobs. Each is a thing somebody on the free rung actually operates for months at a time, and each names the plan it runs on so you can check it against the pricing page.
- The household admin makes the paperwork findable. Contracts, bills and scans land in My Drive, where they are starred, tagged, moved and shared, and a deleted one comes back out of the trash. Filing mail attachments automatically is on the email plan and not on this rung, because nothing polls a free mailbox. The storage bar splits three ways, into what the membership, the workspace and any Drive add-on each gave you, so you can see which line is filling the 15 GB before you pay anybody. Making a scan searchable is the one paid piece: Drive OCR is a separate monthly line.
- The freelancer keeps a shopfront up in a quiet month. The free commerce plan carries 10 products and 50 orders a month, cart and checkout on any website, flat-rate shipping and a Stripe-hosted checkout at 2 percent an order. Digital products, subscriptions, abandoned cart, reviews and the API are all off on this plan. Beside it sits a landing page with a working contact form, and a business profile kept separate from the personal one.
- The organiser runs a small help desk. The free ticket plan is 100 tickets a month, one agent seat, one public form, five topics and three actions, a read-only API and 90 days of history. Past the allowance the desk stops accepting new tickets until next month rather than metering you, which is what you want when nothing is funding it. One auto-response scenario answers in Xuda chat using the AI agents already in your account, and it fires on an inbound message rather than on a clock.
- Everybody keeps their contacts straight. Contact management is the one collection the free workspace plan calls complete access rather than read-only. The duplicates a mailing list keeps creating can be found and merged, keeping the fullest record as primary. Reaching out to somebody new is the single place free has to earn the right to act: an outbound contact request is checked against verification first, and verification is free and never tiered by plan.
- You already have the accountOr the invitation mints it for you, and it is yours from that moment
- The invite finds you by emailResolved across every account on the platform, then attached to your uid
- Access is checked per projectOne uid can hold rows in several organisations at once
- Leaving retires one rowThe access row goes to a removed state and the account document is not written
- Everything personal stays putProfiles, contacts and My Drive live in your own project, not in theirs
There is nothing below this rung, so the only question is the step up.
Free is the floor rather than a trial of something else, so this table has one question to answer: what the next two rungs add. Read the false rows as the reason those rungs exist. Deploy is the clean break, and the marketplace is on none of these three.
Individuals, Try | Pros, Deploy | Teams, Colab | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A month | $0 | $49 | $149 |
| Projects in Studio | 5 | 50 | 250 |
| Drive | 15 GB | 50 GB | 250 GB |
| Editor seats | 1 | 2 | 100 |
| Xuda Studio | Included | Included | Included |
| Deploy a server behind it | |||
| Client copies to sell | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Publish to the marketplace |
Six things the free rung does not do, including one the rest of the site gets wrong.
- Email is granted and not polled. The plan record gives a free account one mailbox, but the only scheduled fetcher skips every account on free membership and the free workspace together, so nothing ever pulls the mail in. That is why this page names AI, Drive, Contacts and Profiles as what free gives you, and leaves Email off until the fetcher changes.
- Free does not deploy. The membership record reads N/A against deploy and Available from Pro upward, which is the honest reason Pro exists. Two caveats in one breath: the free record's own description still mentions deploying a VPS, and we could not find the code that reads that entitlement, so this is the published rule rather than an enforcement we have watched refuse.
- The 15 GB is not a hard stop, it is a meter. Past the limit the account is charged $0.27 a GB a month on total size rather than on the excess, so a free account that keeps filling quietly becomes a billable one. The Drive breakdown is where you watch it.
- Invoicing is not on this rung. The free finance plan exists and is priced at zero, but the first line of its own feature list reads Included with Pro, so a freelancer who needs to invoice a client is looking at the rung above, not this one.
- Personal and business profiles are free. Virtual profiles are not: creating one is refused with a message saying they need a paid membership plan, and it then also asks for a verification level. We can name no number of free profiles, because no cap exists in the creation path and inventing either one or unlimited would be a guess.
- Nothing in the product, the config or the terms uses the word lifetime. What is checkable is narrower and still worth having: free is the default state of every account, it carries no expiry field, and no job archives or disables an account for sitting idle. The only automatic suspension needs a failed invoice, which a $0 account does not produce.
Four questions, asked the same way on all five pages
Same four every time, answered for this rung. The fourth exists because a page that never disagrees with the rest of the site is not being read closely enough.
Start on the rung you are already on.
Nothing here asks what you do for a living. Open the account, use the AI, the Drive, the contacts and the profile, join whoever hires you next, and move up only when something you need says N/A.