Is Polsia free? What it costs once it isn't
Yes, Polsia is free to start — their home page says “No credit card required · Free to start”, and we found nothing contradicting it. It stops being free when money moves: Polsia's terms name a platform fee of currently 3% of the customer payments you receive through them and currently 20% of your advertising budget. A subscription price is not published anywhere we could find.
For comparison, Stedral is €99/month flat — Claude AI usage included, 0% of your customer payments, 0% of your ad spend, and a guided Q&A that builds your whole company in under 10 minutes. Whatever you earn is yours.
Where these figures come from: every Polsia figure on this page was read on 18 September 2026 from polsia.com/terms, /privacy or their home page, and the table below prints the source under each cell. Their terms say these rates are “currently” what they are and may change — check them yourself before deciding. Stedral pricing (€99 / €279 / €599/mo) is current at publication.
Free account · your AI team built free · 28–31 agent tasks a month free · plans from €99/month, Claude AI usage included · no cut of your revenue · 14-day money-back until your agents run their first paid task.
Stedral
€99/mo
Flat. Free account and free company backbone before it; no percentage after it.
- Claude AI usage included — no separate bill
- 0% of your customer payments, 0% of your ad spend
- Guided Q&A onboarding (2–10 min)
- Company memory, agents, approval inbox
- 500 tasks/month; move up a plan any time
Polsia
Free to start
Their home page: no credit card required. No subscription price is published; the fees below are the ones their terms name.
- Currently 3% of customer payments received through the Services
- Currently 20% of your advertising budget
- Stripe's processing fees on top; payouts wait out a settlement period of “currently 31 days”
- Paid subscriptions exist; no amount stated in their terms
What Polsia's 3% costs at your revenue
“Free to start” and “3% of payments” are the same sentence at different revenue levels. Polsia's terms put the platform fee at currently 3% of all customer payments received through the Services, with their own worked example: a $100 payment credits $97. Multiplied out, on the payments you actually run through them:
| Payments through the platform | Polsia at 3% | You keep | Stedral |
|---|---|---|---|
| €5,000/mo | €150/mo | €4,850/mo | €99/mo |
| €20,000/mo | €600/mo | €19,400/mo | €99/mo |
| €50,000/mo | €1,500/mo | €48,500/mo | €99/mo |
The 3% applies to payments taken through Polsia, not to your whole business, so your real figure depends on how much of your revenue runs through them — and their terms say the rate is “currently” 3% and adjustable with notice, with Stripe's processing fees charged on top. If you also run ads through Polsia, their advertising platform fee is currently 20% of your budget, funded daily in credits. Stedral's €99 is the Starter plan at every revenue level in this table; Pro (€279) and Scale (€599) are steps in monthly task volume, not in what you earn.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18
Side-by-side comparison
| Stedral | Polsia | |
|---|---|---|
| Free to start | Yes — free account, no card, 28–31 agent tasks a month | "No credit card required · Free to start" (their home page, 2026-09-18)polsia.com/ · read 2026-09-18 |
| Subscription price | €99/month (Starter), €279 (Pro), €599 (Scale) | Not published. Their terms say fees for paid Services are paid "in U.S. Dollars" and that they "reserve the right to change our subscription plans or adjust pricing" — no amount is stated, and polsia.com/pricing does not exist.Read on 2026-09-18: no Polsia page we could find names a subscription amount.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Fee on your customer payments | None — we never sit between you and your customers | Platform fee "currently 3%" of all customer payments received through the Services: a $100 payment credits $97. Adjustable with notice; payouts wait out a settlement period of "currently 31 days"; Stripe's own processing fees apply on top.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Fee on your ad spend | None — we do not run or resell your ads | Advertising platform fee "currently 20% of your budget", funded daily from Polsia credits (10–1,000 credits/day), adjustable prospectively.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Who approves an outward action | You do — every send, post and payment queues in an approval inbox | Autonomous Scheduled Operations — advertising, outbound communication and subscription enforcement — run "based on prior, general approval, without requiring per-execution approval".polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Is your company page public | No — your workspace is behind login; we publish nothing about you | Public Company Dashboards are "enabled by default and may be indexed by search engines" (their terms say you can change this in settings).polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Training on your data | No — we do not use customer data to train models, and our providers contractually agree not to train on your prompts | Their licence covers use of Your Inputs "including to train and improve the AI models".polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| Where your data sits | EU-hosted, encrypted at rest | US-based: their privacy policy says information "may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or other countries".polsia.com/privacy · read 2026-09-18 |
| Getting your data out | Export any time — JSON or CSV, no notice period | After termination you may export for 30 days, after which data may be deleted.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
| AI usage | Included — Claude on every plan, no separate AI bill; bounded by per-task and daily cost caps | Billed as part of their offerings, which their terms list as including "AI usage tokens" and third-party cloud infrastructure. No rate is published.polsia.com/terms · read 2026-09-18 |
Polsia's column is quoted from the page linked under each cell, read on the date shown. Where Polsia publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing.
A percentage is not a price
A subscription is a number you can compare before you sign. A percentage is a number you find out afterwards, and it is the one almost nobody works out in advance. Polsia's published fees are percentages — 3% of the customer payments that flow through them, 20% of what you spend on ads — so the better the month, the bigger the bill. That is a real model with real advantages: it costs you almost nothing in a quiet month, and it starts free.
Stedral is the other shape. You pay a fixed monthly subscription, and your revenue stays entirely yours — we never sit in your payment flow and we do not resell your ad spend. There is no usage-based price: every plan carries a monthly task allowance and a daily AI cost cap. Which shape suits you is a genuine decision; it is easier to make when both numbers are real.
What “AI usage included” actually means
On Stedral, every plan runs on platform credits that cover Claude usage, bounded by per-task and daily cost caps. You don't bring API keys and you don't receive a separate AI invoice. The Starter plan includes 500 tasks/month; Pro includes 2,000; Scale includes 10,000 — every plan has a ceiling. Polsia's terms list “AI usage tokens” and third-party cloud infrastructure among the offerings they bill for, and publish no rate for either — so this is not a like-for-like column, and we are not going to invent one.
Two things worth checking in their terms
Beyond price, two clauses would change my answer if I were choosing. First, Polsia's Autonomous Scheduled Operations — advertising, outbound communication, subscription enforcement — run on prior, general approval, without per-execution approval; Stedral queues high-stakes actions in an approval inbox and waits for you. Second, their Public Company Dashboards are “enabled by default and may be indexed by search engines”, which is a setting you would want to find before your first customer does; Stedral publishes nothing about your company. Both are quoted in the table above with the page they came from.
The honest recommendation
If you want to start at zero and pay only when money moves, Polsia's model is built for exactly that, and you should read their terms rather than our summary of them. If you want an AI agent team at a predictable flat cost that never takes a percentage of your revenue, that is what Stedral is: €99/month, Claude included, your company backbone built in under 10 minutes, and an approval inbox that keeps the last word yours. Run your own number through the 3% table above at the revenue you expect twelve months from now, not the revenue you have today.
Honest answers to the usual doubts
Is this just another AI wrapper like Copy.ai or Jasper?
No. Those generate one kind of output and wait for you to prompt them. Stedral is a Company OS: a roster of specialist agents that share one company memory and run operations end to end — support, sales, content, finance — coordinating with each other and escalating to you, instead of just drafting text.
I don't trust AI to make decisions for my business.
You stay in control. Your automation rules use automatic, draft, or manual approval modes: work your rules mark for review waits in one inbox, while supported routine actions can run automatically only when you allow them. The judgment calls stay yours.
Are there hidden AI or token costs?
No. AI model usage is included in every plan, bounded by per-task and daily cost caps — there's no separate AI bill and no API keys to bring. Each plan carries a monthly task allowance (Scale includes 10,000 tasks/month); at the daily cost cap, work pauses until it resets.
Is there a free trial, or do I risk money to try it?
There's no trial, because there's nothing to try — there's a free plan. Stedral Origin costs nothing, needs no card, and never expires: you answer the Quick Start Q&A, Stedral builds your AI team, departments and playbooks from your real business, and you can run one real agent task per UTC day plus receive one market scout a week. A paid plan (from €99/month) raises the task limit and adds configurable scheduled automations and recurring work. Your first subscription carries a 14-day money-back guarantee, valid until your agents run their first paid task.
Flat pricing. No cut of your revenue. AI included.
Create your account free, answer a short guided Q&A, and your AI company builds in minutes. Claude usage included. 14-day money-back on your first plan, until your agents run their first paid task.
No card to start · €99/mo Starter · Claude AI usage included · 0% of your revenue · cancel anytime
Frequently asked questions
Is Polsia free?
Polsia is free to start: their home page says "No credit card required · Free to start" (read 2026-09-18). It is not free once money moves through it. Polsia's terms name a platform fee of currently 3% on all customer payments received through the Services — their own example is a $100 payment leaving $97 credited to you — and an advertising platform fee of currently 20% of your budget. Their terms also say paid subscriptions may be offered, without naming a price. Stedral is free to start too: a free account with no card, your company backbone built free, and 28–31 agent tasks a month; paid plans start at €99/month.
What does Polsia cost per month?
Polsia has not published a subscription price. Their terms say fees for paid Services are paid "in U.S. Dollars" — through Stripe, by card or other means — and that price changes take effect after reasonable notice, but state no amount, and polsia.com/pricing did not exist when we checked on 2026-09-17. What is published is usage-linked: currently 3% of customer payments received through the Services, currently 20% of advertising budget, plus "AI usage tokens" and cloud infrastructure as part of their offerings. Anyone quoting you a Polsia monthly price — including us, before this page was corrected — is quoting something Polsia has not said.
What does Polsia's 3% platform fee actually cost?
It is 3% of the customer payments you take through Polsia, not 3% of your total revenue, so it scales with how much of your business runs through them. On €5,000/month of payments that is €150/month; on €20,000 that is €600; on €50,000 that is €1,500. Polsia's terms say the rate is "currently 3%" and adjustable with notice, that Stripe's own processing fees apply on top, and that payouts wait out a settlement period of "currently 31 days". Stedral never sits between you and your customers: our fee is €99, €279 or €599/month by monthly task volume, and 0% of what you get paid.
Who approves it when an AI agent sends something?
On Stedral, you do. High-stakes actions — outward email, posts, payments — queue in an approval inbox and wait for you. It is on by default and not configured per agent. Polsia's terms describe Autonomous Scheduled Operations covering advertising, outbound communication and subscription enforcement, which run "based on prior, general approval, without requiring per-execution approval" (read 2026-09-18). Their terms also make you responsible for reviewing and approving publishing of your outputs and for monitoring costs. Both models are defensible; they are not the same model, and the difference shows up the first time an agent is wrong.
Is there a hidden AI usage cost on Stedral?
No. AI model usage (Claude, included) is part of every plan. Agents run on platform credits bounded by per-task and daily cost caps. There is no separate API bill and no keys to bring. Each plan has a monthly task allowance (500 on Starter, 2,000 on Pro, 10,000 on Scale — every plan has a ceiling), so you always know what you're paying. Polsia's terms list "AI usage tokens" and third-party cloud infrastructure among their offerings and publish no rate for either.
Can I try Stedral before committing?
Yes. Creating an account is free — no card required — and so is your first company backbone: answer the guided Q&A and Stedral generates your AI team, departments and playbooks from your real business, so you can see exactly what you'd get. A plan (from €99/month) is what puts that team to work. Your first subscription includes a 14-day money-back guarantee, valid until your agents run their first paid task.