Try TailGPT Free: 20 Test Messages Before You Pay

Since 15 September 2026, you can try TailGPT on your own website before you pay for anything. Add the site, let TailGPT read it, build a chatbot and ask it 20 questions in your dashboard. If the answers are good, you choose a plan and put the chatbot on your website. If they are not, you have lost an afternoon, not a month's fee.

What does the TailGPT free trial include?

The free trial gives a new account one website, up to 500 of its pages read, one chatbot and 20 test messages, with no card. The pricing page calls it the free trial; inside your dashboard the same thing is marked "Free demo", with a line under the welcome that counts down your test messages.

Plan figures are from the pricing page as of 4 October 2026: Starter is ₹4,000 a month and Growth ₹8,000 a month, billed monthly. Enterprise is priced on request.

Why does the trial stop short of your website?

Because the question you need answered before paying is "does it answer well from my pages?", and that can be answered entirely in the dashboard. Everything that decides answer quality is in the trial: the real reading of your real pages, the role you choose, the way the chatbot handles a question your site does not cover. What waits for a plan is the moment the chatbot leaves the dashboard and starts talking to your customers.

Until then, the chatbot's page shows "Choose a plan to put this chatbot on your website" where the code would be, with a button to the plans. The chatbots list shows no code either. And the server will not show a bubble for an account without a plan, so a chatbot in the trial cannot appear on any website.

Do you need a card to start?

No. You sign up with your name, email and password and confirm the address with a 6-digit code, or use "Continue with Google". Nothing in the trial asks for payment details. A card is asked for only when you choose a plan.

How do you set up the trial, step by step?

It takes about as long as reading the site does, which is a few minutes for most small websites. The full journey is on the how it works page; the short version:

1. Add your website. Type its address on the Websites page.
2. Check the page list. TailGPT lists your pages from the site's own page list and ticks a sensible set, up to 500. Untick old blog posts and anything that would answer badly, and tick the pages that matter: prices, delivery, returns, timings, fees.
3. Let it read. Reading happens in the background; you can close the tab. Afterwards the Websites page shows which pages were read and which failed, with the reason. If the first read fails as a whole, you can try it again.
4. Create the chatbot. Pick a role (Support, Sales, FAQ or Custom), then a name, colour and greeting. The preview shows what visitors would see.
5. Ask it questions. Each answer uses one of your 20 test messages, and the count shows above the box.

Step 2 deserves the most care in the trial, because the trial includes one read and no re-reads. A page you leave unticked now cannot be added until you have a plan. Our guide to choosing which pages your chatbot should read covers this in detail.

How should you use your 20 test messages?

Treat them as a test plan, not a chat. Twenty is enough to judge a chatbot if each question has a job. Here is one way to spend them, using a shop in Pune as the example.

1. Messages 1 to 8: the questions customers really ask. Open your inbox or call log and copy the eight most common questions word for word. "Do you deliver to Nashik?", "Can I return a kurta if the size is wrong?", "What time do you open on Sunday?" These tell you whether the everyday answers are right.
2. Messages 9 to 11: questions your pages answer in an awkward place. A charge buried in a table, a policy halfway down the terms page, a timing that appears only in the footer. These test whether the right pages were read.
3. Messages 12 to 14: questions your website does not answer. Ask about something you do not sell, or a policy you have never written. The right result is a plain statement that the website does not cover it. A confident answer here is the warning sign, and it is the test that matters most.
4. Messages 15 and 16: a long question with two parts. "What does the gift box cost and can it be delivered the same day?" A good answer covers only the parts your pages cover.
5. Message 17: a question in Hindi, if your customers write in Hindi. Questions in Hindi answered from English pages are in beta, so judge it as a beta.
6. Messages 18 to 20: spare. Keep them for re-asking a question in the words a customer would use, if the first wording missed.

Four details make the 20 go further:

• Each test message stands alone. On your website, the chatbot remembers the last three exchanges of a conversation, so "and how much is that?" works. The dashboard test box does not carry that memory, so write each test question in full.
• A refused message is free. If you try to give the chatbot orders or ask it to write code, it answers "I can only answer questions about this website." and your count does not move.
• A question your pages do not cover still counts. The chatbot did the work of searching and answering, even when the answer is that your site does not say.
• A failed answer is given back. If something goes wrong and no answer comes back, the message is returned to your count.

Under each answer in the test box you will see a faint line with the addresses of the pages it found closest to the question. That line is for you, to check where an answer came from; visitors on your website see the answer alone. When an answer is wrong, that line usually tells you which page to fix or tick. For more on reading misses, see what to do when your chatbot says it does not know.

What happens when the 20 messages are used up?

The test box stops taking questions and says "Your free test messages are used up.", with a See the plans button. Nothing else changes. Your website, the pages read, the chatbot and its settings all stay exactly as they are, and they are there when you choose a plan.

What happens to your pages when you choose a plan?

Everything you built carries over, and the line of code appears. After paying you are brought back to the chatbot's page and the code is there to copy. It goes just before the closing </body> tag of your site.

Two details are worth knowing:

• Your first read as a customer does not use a re-read. If the trial showed you a page you should have ticked, tick it and read the site again. That first read after choosing a plan is free, as a first read is for everyone; the month's re-reads start after it.
• A plan with fewer pages than the trial read keeps the first ones, once. If the plan you choose reads fewer pages than were ticked in the trial, TailGPT keeps the first pages selected, in the order the page list shows them, and sets the rest aside. The Websites page tells you what happened, and you can change which pages are kept in the picker. This happens once, for the first plan after the trial. As of 4 October 2026, Starter reads 1,000 pages and Growth 7,500, both more than the trial's 500, so on those plans nothing is set aside.

Who can use the free trial?

Any account that has never had a plan. Opening the payment window and closing it without paying does not count as having had one, so it does not end your trial.

An account that has had a plan before, including one that has lapsed or been cancelled, does not get a second trial. Its first card says "Choose a plan" instead. That costs a returning customer very little: nothing is deleted when a plan ends, so their website, pages and chatbots are all still there, and renewing brings them back without reading the site again.

What will the trial not tell you?

The trial cannot test answers that live only in your PDFs or price lists, because uploads need a plan. It cannot show the bubble loading on your real site, or how your visitors phrase things. And with no visitors yet, there are no conversations to read on the Show chats page, which is where reading every conversation your bot had comes in once it is live.

What it does tell you is the thing most worth knowing before you pay: whether a chatbot reading your own pages gives your customers the right answer, and whether it says so plainly when your pages are silent. If you want a wider list of what to check before buying any chatbot, see six questions to ask before you buy an AI chatbot.