Julius AI

Julius meters usage in credits rather than messages. The credits documentation says a short question costs less than an analysis that runs code or builds a deliverable, and that frontier models use credits faster than lighter ones such as Julius 1.2 Lite or Claude Sonnet 5.5. Eligible new web accounts start with 75 one-time welcome credits plus 25 daily credits, so 100 are available on the first day. Daily credits reset at 00:00 UTC, expire at the next midnight and are spent before any other balance.

Editorial arithmetic: a free account that uses its whole daily allowance for 30 days gets 75 + 30 x 25 = 825 credits, and a Plus account doing the same gets 2,000 + 30 x 100 = 5,000. Because no cost per message is published, those totals do not convert into a number of analyses; the Usage page shows what each chat actually consumed. Credits cannot be topped up, and the documentation points to a higher plan as the only way to more usage.

The Files documentation lists the data formats Julius accepts: CSV, Excel (.xlsx and .xls), JSON, Parquet, Feather, SQLite and SPSS, alongside text, PDF, image and code files such as Jupyter notebooks. Retention is where the plans differ most. Free-tier files, including AI-generated outputs, are deleted after 1 hour of inactivity; paid users keep files for up to 7 days of inactivity, and the comparison table lists permanent storage only for Enterprise.

In practice, a free analysis has to be finished and downloaded in one sitting. The same page explains how to link a Google Sheet or Drive file by URL, which requires sharing the sheet so that anyone with the link can view it. For a sheet that should stay private, uploading an export or using a paid database connector avoids that step.

The data connectors documentation lists PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, BigQuery and Supabase, plus Google Ads and Meta Ads. Once enabled, a connector stays available for the whole chat session. For warehouses with thousands of tables, the pricing FAQ says Julius builds a semantic layer of the schema, and you can filter schemas or add a data dictionary. In the comparison table, Free covers Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint, the warehouse connectors start at Plus, and Business adds no table limit in data connections.

Julius also has built-in web search with citations and US equity data: fundamentals, 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings, earnings, insider trades and historical prices. Both run on the same credits as everything else, so a question that triggers a search costs more than one answered from your file alone.

The pricing page labels annual billing “save 20%”. Editorial arithmetic: that holds for Plus ($20 – $16 = $4, or 20%), while Pro saves $8 (8 / 45, about 17.8%) and Business $75 (75 / 450, about 16.7%). The annual total is not printed on the page, so check it at checkout rather than multiplying the monthly rate by twelve.

Annual billing also changes how credits arrive. A Pro annual subscriber receives all 60,000 purchased credits upfront, usable in any month of the term and forfeited at its end, while monthly credits lapse every month. An annual pool therefore allows a heavy month, provided the rest lasts until renewal; it does not allow carrying credits into the next year.

The Privacy Policy names Anthropic, Google and OpenAI among its service providers and says Julius does not use your personal information to train its own AI models. The security page lists SOC 2 Type II and TX-RAMP, isolation between customer accounts, encryption in transit and at rest, and short-term storage of processed data. Database credentials are encrypted, according to the connectors documentation.

The Terms of Service are an agreement with Caesar Labs Inc., require users to be 18 or older, and send disputes to binding individual arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, seated in Los Angeles under California law. Cancelling a subscription keeps the account on Free with its files; deleting the account is different, and the terms say data cannot be recovered afterwards.

A website subscription is cancelled from Subscription settings through the billing portal, as the cancellation guide describes. The plan stays active until the end of the current period unless you ask support to end it immediately, and remaining purchased credits are forfeited when the period ends.

The Refund Policy says subscription and credit purchases are generally final. Julius normally declines refunds for forgetting to cancel or for dissatisfaction, and a recent payment, little usage or unused credits do not by themselves make a purchase refundable. Support does correct charges that an earlier cancellation request should have prevented and refunds verified duplicate payments; the policy sets no general refund window.

1. Prepare an Excel file with two sheets you may share, for example 12 months of orders and a product list, and calculate monthly revenue by product in Excel first.
2. Note the balance on the Usage page, upload the file and ask for revenue by product and month with a chart.
3. Ask how each total was calculated and compare every monthly figure with your own.
4. Download the result as Excel or CSV before an hour of inactivity passes, then record the credits used.
5. On the next day, confirm that the daily credits reset after 00:00 UTC and repeat the request to see whether the cost is similar.

Accept if the totals match and one analysis uses a small share of the 25 daily credits. Reject if totals differ without explanation or the file disappears before export. No result is recorded here.