What a free account can build — and when to upgrade
The free tier is a real tier, not a demo: generate sites and apps under a monthly allowance, keep full ownership, export your work. Where paid plans take over.
The free tier is the pipeline, rate-limited
A free account on SXX.digital is not a preview with the export button disabled. The same generation pipelines a paid plan uses — the AI Website Developer, the Mobile App Generator, the Web App Developer — run against a free plan of ten generations a month (plus a small credit grant on top), with up to five live projects. What you generate is yours: full ownership, exportable, sitewide.
This is deliberate rather than generous. The valuable question is not "does this sound good in a demo video" but "does a plan built from my brief actually produce a site I would publish". You can only answer that with real runs, so the entry tier ships real runs.
What a sensible first workflow looks like
Use the ten generations on refinement, not just generation. Take one brief — a real project with a deadline, not a test prompt — and generate it. Review the plan, push the parts you disagree with, and regenerate. A second run on the same intent almost always beats the first, because by then you know what you actually want the page to argue.
For mobile, the Mobile App Generator produces React Native / Expo applications: the generated project is source code you can continue in a real development environment. For web apps, the generator produces working React source with a live preview, and you keep editing it in plain language after the first build.
When upgrading is the right call
The paid plans raise the ceiling: larger credit grants, more projects, and for heavy users a bring-your-own-key tier where the platform runs on your own OpenRouter key and generation cost stops being a platform conversation at all. If your usage pattern is "a site or two when a need appears", the free tier genuinely covers it. As soon as you are iterating daily — client work, a product you are shipping, several projects live at once — the allowance stops being the point and the workspace is.
You can see the current plan boundaries on the pricing page at any time. They are stated exactly as they operate: no hidden per-seat numbers, no "contact sales for the real price".