Free and Personal are the same application: moving up unlocks parts that are already installed, so moving up is a change to your account rather than a reinstall, and nothing has to be migrated. Business is that same harness installed on your hardware, with the server half a team needs. They describe NeuralVault 2.0, which is available now as a Beta. Here is what each one is, in order, and then the three side by side.
NeuralVault Free
You install it, you open a conversation with Cortex, and you point it at your own material. After you close the conversation, what it worked out is written to a folder of Markdown on your disk, and the next conversation starts from there rather than from nothing. Nothing expires, and the paid capabilities are locked rather than missing, so the day you want them is a change to your account and not a reinstall. It opens on a sign-in screen and the account is free to create. No card, nothing expires, and it is not a trial: the account is what carries your edition, so moving up later is a change to it rather than another download.
Point it at notes, research, client files or a repository, and ask it things that need all of them at once.
Onto your own disk, as files you can open in any editor. Run the model locally too and none of it leaves the machine.
A download. A free account, no card, and nothing expires.
Those three are what a free build can claim. The paid editions add nine more. See all twenty capabilities measured side by side.
This is the half that makes it a harness rather than a chat window, and it is the half worth paying for. Locked, not absent: same build, so unlocking is a subscription rather than a second download, and everything you put in the vault while you were on Free is still sitting there afterwards. That half is Edition Two.
With NeuralVault routing you pick a model from a catalogue of 390+ models and use it, with nothing to connect and no key to paste. Free works with your own API key or a local model. Personal does that and adds routing on top.
Your own key, or a local model.
390+ models, nothing to connect.
462 models were listed in the public OpenRouter model catalogue on 14 October 2026, and 393 of them can use NeuralVault's tools, which are the ones its model picker lists. Routing draws on that catalogue, so the number moves as it adds and removes models.
NeuralVault Personal
Same install, same vault, same conversation. What the $20 turns on is every screen that conversation was talking to: the board agents work themselves, the fleet that splits a job up, the schedule that starts one without you, and, once it ships, the approvals queue that will hold anything it wants to send. It is the complete harness, and nothing in it is held back for a higher tier.
A cron schedule, a file landing in a folder, or the board itself can start a job. Free answers when you type. Personal is running when you are not.
Cortex takes an objective and splits it across agents, and those agents split it again. What comes back is the finished thing, not the first attempt at it.
In chat, every write Cortex asks for waits on a card until you approve it. A standing queue for work that runs while you are away is still to come. Either way you are the last step, not a spectator at every one of them.
Every one is a named row in the product's own editions table rather than a paraphrase, and only built ones are listed. Free already carries the vault, the search, the chat, the audit log and local models. This is what sits on top.
Today: you supply the model. NeuralVault is the harness, so the$20 buys the memory, the agents, the permissions and the record, and nothing else. Give it a brain by connecting a cloud provider on your own API key, or by running a model locally on your own hardware, or both at once with a different model per job. Until you do one of those, nothing answers.
Coming: buy the calls from us. Holding your own provider account is the step most people never finish, so managed routing is meant to become the ordinary way in: pick a model from a list, nothing to connect, on a monthly plan from $30 + tax where it applies with the software included. Local models keep working alongside it, so you can still run the cheap work yourself. It is built, and not yet proven end to end for billing. It opens soon. The full ladder is on the Personal page.
Still one person and one machine: sync is across your own devices, not across a team. The moment somebody else needs to see the work, that is the next section. The full argument for Personal, and what it costs.
NeuralVault Business
It includes everything in Personal, unchanged. Every agent, every screen and every capability from the edition above is here too: nothing is taken away and nothing is repackaged to make room. What Business adds on top is the layer that only starts to matter once the work is not yours alone: accounts, permissions scoped to folders, agents scoped to roles, and a record of who did what. That is the part nobody needs on their own machine and nobody can run a company without.
That is why there is no single number on the card below: a five-person deployment with none of the optional layer and a hundred-person one with all of it are not the same thing. The consultation is where that gets settled, and it costs nothing. The full argument for Business, or arrange the consultation.
Each column contains the one before it. Nothing is removed as you move up and nothing is held back to make a higher tier look better: Personal is the complete harness, and Business is that same harness with the parts a company needs switched on. Which is why the cheapest way to choose is to install the free one and find out.
A free account, no card, and nothing expires.
For finding out whether an assistant that remembers is actually different from one that forgets. It is the same binary the paid editions run, with fewer switches on, so nothing you learn here is wasted. Like every edition, it has no AI in it: connect a provider on your own key, or run a model on your own hardware. Without one, nothing answers.
A working slice of Personal, not a demo of it.
8 of these work in the build you can download today, and are unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 1 is partly there already, and the row says which half runs. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.
a month + tax where it applies
For one person doing their own work: a developer, a researcher, a consultant, anybody with material they would rather not paste into a browser tab. This is the complete harness, and nothing above it is a better version of it. $20 is the starting price for the software. Using our routing means a monthly plan instead; with your own keys or a local model, the starting price is the whole bill.
Our recommendation if you will actually use it. Personal is all your AI bills in one place: we handle the billing, the routing and the backups, and routing is only available through Personal. The NeuralVault AI score and our full model picker come with NeuralVault routing. With your own keys you get a plain model list. You can also use your own keys, such as OpenRouter, OpenAI and Anthropic, and that is free to use with your own keys. Routing makes it easier and nicer. During the Beta everyone has Personal. In the next few weeks, when the Stable version is released, Personal becomes a monthly subscription. We will tell you before it changes.
When you upgrade from Free to Personal you will get $10 off, shown in your own currency.
Everything in Free, and then:
4 of these work in the build you can download today, and are unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 6 are partly there already, and the row says which half runs; 3 have not started, though your plan already grants them at no extra cost the day they ship. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.
During the Beta everyone has Personal, and it becomes a monthly subscription in the next few weeks. $20 buys the application, not the AI. There is no model inside it: run one locally on hardware you own, or connect a provider on your own API key and they bill you for the calls. Buying the calls from us instead means a monthly plan, which starts at $30 + tax where it applies with the software included.
Priced by size, and by how much of it you switch on
For the point where the output stops being yours alone. Everything Personal does, plus the accounts, folder scoping and record that make it safe for other people to work inside it. Scoped, installed and supported by us rather than downloaded and hoped for.
Everything in Personal, unchanged, and then:
1 of these works in the build you can download today, and is unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 3 are partly there already, and the row says which half runs; 7 have not started, though your plan already grants them at no extra cost the day they ship. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.
Two things get priced: the application, and the deployment around it. You get a fixed number before any work starts.
Free, Personal and Business are the same application with a subscription between them, so the machine needs the same things whichever one you end up on.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Windows is the main supported platform. There is no ARM build, and macOS and Linux are experimental (see below).
It installs for your user account only, so Windows never asks you for an administrator password. About 115 MB to download.
The light way to run it. The model does its thinking on your provider’s hardware, so your machine only has to run the app.
Much heavier, and worth knowing before you start. Ollama holds the whole model in memory for as long as it stays loaded.
The one local-model number worth having in advance: the model our getting-started guide suggests, qwen3.5:9b, is a 6.6 GB download, and a smaller model costs you proportionally less. We do not publish a minimum memory figure, because with a cloud provider the app is the only thing running on your machine and with a local model it is the model that decides, not us. The app carries its own browser engine, so setup fetches nothing else. The first run needs a connection only to sign in.
NeuralVault has no AI inside it, on any edition. Pick where the thinking happens.
Pick from 390+ models and the calls come out of your balance. Nothing to connect. NeuralVault lists only models that can use its tools. The usage balance opens soon.
Free is out now, and during the Beta everyone has Personal too. Business follows. Business testing opens in December 2026, and launch is planned for the first quarter of 2027, with January the goal. Free and Personal are one download. During the Beta everyone has Personal; in the next few weeks, when the Stable version is released, it becomes a monthly subscription, and we will tell you before it changes. Business is scoped with you before anything is installed. Want it capability by capability? Compare all three against a plain chat assistant.
Pick the kind of work you do. We will show you NeuralVault doing it, and which page to read next.
You want agents that do real work in your repo, on your terms, without surprises.
An agent harness you can read, script and constrain.
An illustration of a screen, with made-up content, not a screen capture.
One email when a NeuralVault version goes out. We note which page you signed up from, so we know who to write for.