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Trial

Free to start, no card - 10 articles over 7 days through all ten editorial desks. What the trial includes, what starts on a plan, and what happens when it ends.

Every new account starts with a free trial, so you can see what Mastheads writes - and check its work - before you decide anything about a plan.

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What you get

10 articles over 7 days
one site (domain) and one seat
no card - signing up asks for no payment details at all

The trial starts the moment your account is created. There is nothing to activate.

What the trial includes

The same ten editorial desks every plan uses. A trial article is researched, written, checked and illustrated exactly like an article on Pro. You also get:

every way to start an article except Blueprints
your own voice - tone, reading level, audience, banned words, standing instructions
named bylines and an editor of record
the autonomous newsroom, if you want to try it on your site
Find sources, and up to five Ideas searches a day
five site audits of up to 100 pages each
publishing to your connected site, and export at any time

What starts on a plan

Blueprints - from Starter
Research reports - from Starter
The content API and AI assistant access - from Growth
Your own AI keys - on Pro

See Plans and your article pool.

Getting the most from 10 articles

A few ways to make the trial tell you what you need to know:

Write about something you know well. You will spot a weak claim faster, and see how the Fact Desk handled the sources.
Open the sources. Every researched article links to the pages it was written from. Check two or three claims against them.
Read the authenticity panel. It shows which checks passed, which failed, and what the desks could not fix.
Try two ways in. One single article, and one short Assignment or From a URL run on your own older posts.
Publish one. Connect your site and send an article to it, to see the whole path end to end.

When the trial ends

The trial ends when 7 days have passed or the 10 articles are used - whichever comes first. You are reminded in the app and by email.

Nothing is charged automatically. The trial collects no payment details, so it cannot.
Unused trial articles expire. They do not turn into credit.
A request past the limit is refused before anything is spent.

Keep writing after the trial

Pick a plan - Starter, Growth or Pro, monthly or yearly. See Plans and your article pool.
Buy articles without a plan - $5 each, or $3 each when you buy 100 or more. Bought articles never expire. You can buy them during the trial too.

One trial per inbox

There is one account, and one trial, per email inbox - addresses that only differ by a +tag, or by dots in a Gmail address, count as the same inbox.