The Free grant
The one-time Free allowance on a first Project: how you become eligible, what a grant now costs, what it includes, and what running out starts.
Before you start and expected result
Nothing to set up and no card to add. This describes what a new account's first Project already carries; converting it later needs permission to manage billing.
You know what the Free allowance covers, that it never refills, and what spending it starts.
On this page
The Free grant is one lifetime allowance on an account's first Project. There is no card and no countdown: it is a fixed amount of work, and it lasts until you spend it.
Getting one is two separate conditions, and it is worth keeping them apart.
- Eligibilitydecided at signup
Whether your account may take Free at all. Written onto the account the first time you sign in, alongside the offer it was assigned, and never recalculated afterwards.
- The grant itselfclaimed at the plan step
Eligibility is permission to take it, not the thing itself. You still have to choose it on your first Project, and claiming it now asks for something in return. See what it costs.
One grant, one Project, once
The grant is issued to the account, and it lands on the first Project that account creates. It is not per Project and not per workspace: a second Project is a paid purchase from the start, and a second account is not a way to get a second grant on the same work.
What a grant costs
Free is not automatic any more. Claiming it asks for one public post on X, and the plan step verifies that post before the grant is written.
- Post it
The dialog suggests the text and fills in your blog address and our handle. You can rewrite it completely, and rewriting it is fine: only two things are checked, and both are named on screen.
- Paste the link
Bring the link to your post back into the second field. The grant is written when that post passes.
A post qualifies when all four of these hold:
- It is a real X post linkrequired
A status URL on
x.comortwitter.com. A profile link or a search result is not one.- It mentions your blog addressrequired
The Project's live
blogged.devhostname. This is what ties the post to your account rather than to anybody else's.- It mentions our handlerequired
@blogged_app. The address alone is not enough, because the address already ends in our own domain and would prove nothing on its own.- It was posted in the last 24 hoursrequired
Checked before the wording is, so an old post is never reported as something you could fix by editing it.
A post that has already been used to start somebody's free project cannot be used again. That check is what makes one post worth exactly one grant.
The post is verified once, at the moment you claim, and the grant is not re-checked afterwards. Whether the requirement applies at all is a runtime switch: when it is off, no post is asked for and the opt-in simply appears.
Why a claim can still be refused
The grant is fenced against being handed out repeatedly to the same person. Two of those limits are ones an ordinary customer can meet.
- One per account, one per email addresslifetime
The durable half. These are the two that genuinely mean the benefit was already used, so a second account on the same email address does not produce a second grant.
- A cap per browserlifetime
A shared-environment signal rather than proof of anything. It is counted against an identifier your browser stores. The exact cap is an operator setting rather than a published number.
Every other refusal is reported the same way, as the grant simply not being available for this account, with a paid plan offered instead. That is deliberate, so the refusals cannot be used to probe how the limits are counted.
The allowance
- Posts3
Articles this Project may produce in total.
- Topics40
Topics this Project may generate in total.
- Images15
Generated images in total.
- Competitors7
Competitors tracked at once. This one is a standing limit rather than a running total: stop tracking one and the slot is free again.
- AI article regenerations0
Not reduced. Off.
It never resets
This is the difference that matters most, and it is the one thing about Free worth reading twice.
A paid plan's allowance is an amount per billing period, and it refills when the period rolls over. The Free grant is a lifetime total for that Project. It has no period start and no period end, so there is nothing for it to roll over into. Three posts is three posts, not three a month.
What is included
Free is meant to show the product working rather than a sample of it, so the automation is not what is held back.
- Both Autopilot modes. Assisted and Full. A Free Project can run in Full mode and carry a post through to publication, subject to the same Content Direction gates as any paid Project. See Assisted and Full.
- Competitor Blog Watch, up to the seven tracked competitors above. See Competitor Blog Watch.
- Newsletter lead capture, including the subscriber list it builds. See lead capture.
- A live blog. The Project's
blogged.devaddress is published from creation, not held back until you pay.
What is not included
Five features are paid only. They are connection and convenience features rather than the engine, and each one refuses in the same way.
| Feature | Where you meet it |
|---|---|
Renaming the blogged.dev address | Your Blogged address |
| Connecting a custom domain | Custom domains |
| Search Console | Search Console |
| AI article regeneration | Revisions |
| Scheduling a post by hand | Scheduling |
Sending a team invitation is also unavailable while a workspace's only Project is on the grant, for a different reason: invitations are gated on the workspace holding a subscription, and a Free workspace has none. See roles and access.
Upgrading converts that Project
Putting a plan on a Free Project converts that exact Project, permanently. The grant is marked converted and does not come back.
Upgrading is also what lifts the allowance. The charge is raised immediately and the plan's own numbers, on the plan's own period cadence, arrive once that payment is confirmed. Everything the Project already produced stays in it. See changing a plan and what checkout can refuse.
An invited account gets no grant
If the first thing you ever do in Blogged is accept an invitation to somebody else's workspace, your account is recorded as having arrived that way and no signup benefit is issued to it, then or later.
This is deliberate: an invitation would otherwise be a second signup path that also handed out a grant. It is worth knowing before you accept, because it cannot be undone. If you want your own Free Project as well, sign up for your own account first and accept the invitation afterwards.
Free Projects and pricing
A Free Project has no price, so it holds no position in the multi Project discount ladder and cannot deepen anyone else's rate. It also contributes nothing to a workspace invoice. See discounts for how positions are counted, and creating a Project for adding a paid Project beside a Free one.