Felo AI is a multilingual AI search engine and creation workspace from Felo Inc., a Tokyo startup founded in 2024. The free Standard plan includes unlimited high-speed search, 5 professional searches a day, 3 file analyses a day and 200 bonus credits daily. Pro costs $14.99 a month or $12.50 a month billed yearly ($149.99) and adds 15,000 credits a month, roughly 300 AI images, up to 500 slide pages or about 100 deep research tasks, plus AI Slides, AI Designer, custom agents, video and API access, with 300 Pro searches a day once credits run out.
Reviewed by EdGrows·Updated Oct 1, 2026
Felo's home screen when we tested it in August 2026, with agents under the search bar.
Felo comes from Felo Inc., a startup founded in Tokyo in July 2024, the same month it launched Felo Search. Its pitch was multilingual AI search that works as well in Japanese, Korean or Chinese as in English, and it found most of its users in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In July 2025 it raised about ¥1.5 billion, roughly $10 million, from Peak XV Partners and the venture arm of Mirae Asset.
Search is still the front door, with a quick mode, professional searches for deeper answers, a Research agent and mind maps you can export as SVG or Markdown. Around it, Felo has built a creation workspace: LiveDoc for documents, AI Slides, AI Designer for images, text and image to video, and a library of agents, from translators to Japanese business document helpers for invoices and résumés.
Felo's pricing page, screenshot taken October 1, 2026.
| Plan | Price | Credits | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free | 200 bonus credits a day | Unlimited high-speed search, 5 professional searches and 3 file analyses a day; advanced models limited |
| Pro, monthly | $14.99 a month | 15,000 a month plus 200 a day | All models, AI Slides, AI Designer, web pages and docs, custom agents, Deep Research, X Research, voice notes, video, API access |
| Pro, yearly | $12.50 a month, $149.99 a year | Same as monthly | Same as monthly, about 16% cheaper |
| Enterprise | By quote | Shared credit pool | Team version with shared PPT templates, IP allowlists and larger uploads |
Pro moved to credits, and the pricing page is clear about what they buy. One credit is worth a tenth of a cent, so the monthly allowance is $15 of usage: a professional search costs 15 credits, a Research agent run 150, an AI web page 375, and images from 40 credits for Nano Banana 2 Lite to 600 for Nano Banana Pro at 4K, a price halved during a promotion when we checked. Felo's own estimate is roughly 300 images, up to 500 slide pages or about 100 deep research tasks a month. When the credits run out, Pro users still get 300 professional searches a day at no cost, and extra credits can be bought as top-ups.
The free plan suits occasional searching. Its 5 daily professional searches and limited access to the best models are enough to judge the answers, but the creation tools that make Felo different are Pro-only.
Many people find Felo through its slides. AI Slides builds a deck from a prompt, a search thread or an uploaded document, lets you set language and length, and since January 2026 can follow a PowerPoint template you upload, so the result matches a company's own design. Decks export to PPTX, and an August update sped up translating large presentations, useful for teams working across Japanese and English.
LiveDoc turning a meeting transcript into a strategy deck, August 2026.
LiveDoc, launched in late 2025, is the workspace that ties this together: one canvas where documents, slides, images, tables and agents sit side by side and colleagues can edit together. You can import files, Felo voice notes or transcripts and turn them into a deck, a web page or a summary. Recent releases added automatic illustrations, page-level citations for PDFs and better handling of images inside documents.
The Felo Agent library: Translator, YouTube Summary, URL Summary, Fact-Checking and Fable Research.
The product has changed a lot over the past six months: there's now a ton of additional functionality, and sometimes it's easy to get confused about Felo's positioning. But I really enjoyed using the documents feature, as well as the agents, which are available in a separate module.
My personal opinion is that the product needs to highlight one particular function and stand out from other competitors.
Felo is a front end to other companies' models, and it keeps the list current. In October 2026 its pricing page listed GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable and Grok 4.6 for text, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image 2.5 and Grok Imagine 2.0 for images, Gemini Veo 3.1 and Grok Imagine Video for video, and ElevenLabs and GPT-Realtime for audio. The summer changelog shows how fast that moves: Claude 5.0 Sonnet and a Claude Fable-powered Fable Research agent in July, then GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5 and Claude Opus 5 within weeks.
Custom agents can run up to 100 steps and call MCP tools, and personal accounts can upload files of up to 25 MB, Enterprise up to 50 MB. Developers get the same models through openapi.felo.ai, billed in credits and included with Pro.
Perplexity is the better pure search engine, with faster cited answers and a more polished product at $20 a month for Pro; our Perplexity vs Felo comparison goes through both in detail. NotebookLM is free and grounded only in sources you upload, which makes it stronger for studying your own documents. Gamma is the more refined dedicated deck builder. Genspark and Manus AI compete with Felo's agent side.
Felo's advantage is doing all of these jobs passably in one place, at a lower price than most rivals, with unusual strength in East Asian languages. That breadth is also why its positioning can feel unclear.
The free Standard plan includes unlimited high-speed search, 5 professional searches a day, 3 file analyses a day and 200 bonus credits daily, with no card needed. It limits advanced models such as GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable and Nano Banana Pro, and leaves out AI Slides, AI Designer, custom agents, video and the API.
Yes. Felo has apps for iPhone and Android, which got a redesigned interface in 2026, plus a browser extension. The iOS app includes Felo Agents, and LiveDoc can import Felo voice notes recorded on your phone.
Pro includes 15,000 credits a month plus 200 bonus credits a day, and one credit is worth $0.001. A professional search costs 15 credits, a Research agent run 150, an AI web page 375 and an image from 40 to 600 depending on the model and resolution. Felo estimates a month's credits at roughly 300 images, up to 500 slide pages or about 100 deep research tasks; after that, Pro still gets 300 professional searches a day at no credit cost.
No. Felo Inc. is a Tokyo startup founded in July 2024, which launched Felo Search that month. In July 2025 it raised about ¥1.5 billion, roughly $10 million, in a Series A from Peak XV Partners and the venture arm of South Korea's Mirae Asset. Its users are concentrated in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and it supports Chinese alongside English, Japanese and Korean.
Yes, on Pro. AI Slides builds a deck from a prompt, a search thread or a document, lets you set the output language and length, can follow a PowerPoint template you upload, and exports to PPTX. LiveDoc can also convert a transcript or document into a deck, and AI Slides can translate an existing presentation.
LiveDoc is Felo's document workspace, launched in late 2025: a shared canvas where documents, slides, images, tables and AI agents sit together. You can drop in files, voice notes or transcripts, turn them into decks, pages or summaries, and edit with colleagues. Recent updates added automatic illustrations and page-level citations for PDFs.
Perplexity for fast, cited answers and a more polished search experience, at $20 a month for Pro. Felo for research that has to become something, such as a slide deck, a document or a translated report, and for work in Japanese or Korean, at $14.99 a month or $12.50 billed yearly. Both have free plans worth trying first.
Yes. Felo's developer platform at openapi.felo.ai gives API access to the models in its lineup, billed in the same credits, and Pro subscribers get API access as part of the plan. The free plan has no API access.
Cited AI search plus the new Computer agent: free plan, Pro at $20 or $200 a year, Max at $200, Computer credits, and the free Comet browser.
An academic search engine that answers from peer-reviewed papers. Basic search is free, Pro starts at $12 a month billed yearly, and students get up to 40% off.
A free chat app and one of the cheapest frontier-class APIs: V4.1-Flash with vision and open weights, from $0.15 per million input tokens off-peak.