What it costs to try, and whether it's real money
Trying PortMula costs nothing in plan fees: the Free plan asks for no card and charges nothing. What your agent spends is separate. It pays for each service it uses out of its own wallet, with money you put there.
What the Free plan gives you
Free gives you an agent, its wallet, a set number of runs each day and a small number of automations, and it lets an automation run on a schedule. The exact numbers and how often a Free schedule may run are on the Plan card in Settings. Pro also adds Exit ladder, Ladder and Rebalance. That card also shows whether the Pro plan is open yet.
Withdrawing and exporting your agent's wallet are not features of a plan. They work on Free, on Pro, and after a plan ends.
What your agent spends
Each time your agent buys a service, it pays that service's listed price, in USDC, from its own wallet. Every price is on the Services page, and each run's record shows what it bought and what each call cost.
For the services PortMula built, that price is PortMula's revenue. The price you see is the price charged: nothing is added on top, and no plan limits what your agent spends on data. Does PortMula take a cut? has the detail.
Trades are different from data. A trade signed with your agent's wallet pays a small network fee in ALGO from that wallet, which is explained in Who pays network fees.
Is this real money?
That depends on which Algorand network PortMula is running on, and the app tells you rather than leaving you to guess. You'll see it on the sign-in page, which says "Running on Algorand" and the network's name, at the top of Home beside the PortMula name, and on the Wallet page beside the code for your agent's address.
- On testnet, coins have no value. Don't send real funds to your agent's wallet.
- On mainnet, what your agent holds, including USDC, has real value, and transactions are real and can't be undone.
How much to deposit
Add only what you're comfortable with. You can withdraw everything from your agent's wallet to any Algorand address at any time.
Only commit what you can afford to lose. That's true here and everywhere else in crypto.