How much does the beta cost, and will it automatically become paid?

It is free, and Rounda says the trial will not automatically convert into a paid contract or incur charges after the period ends.

How much AI usage is covered during the beta?

Rounda covers usage within a capped quota — roughly 10,000 standard-model chats, about 1,000 comparisons of three models at once, or about 1,000 AI-generated document drafts — and usage stops automatically at the cap unless an admin registers the company's own API key.

What are the conditions for joining?

It is open to corporations, universities and research institutions on a screening basis, and participants must cooperate with usage interviews, use multi-factor authentication and agree to the terms as an organization.

Large Language ModelsPR TIMES (AI)5h agoNov 9, 2026, 13:00 JST

Rounda opens free 3-month beta of RoundaChat, a GPT/Claude/Gemini team workspace

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What happened
Rounda began recruiting companies and organizations for a closed beta of RoundaChat on November 9, 2026, offering three months free to up to 10 people per organization, with applications closing November 30, 2026.
Why it matters
Teams can compare GPT, Claude and Gemini answers, response times and per-request costs in one screen, so know-how that normally stays buried in individual chat histories becomes a shared, versioned asset — a hedge against being locked into a single AI vendor.

WHO IT HITSCorporate AI adoption teams and small research or department units that want to test several models without committing to one vendor are the target, since the beta caps each organization at 10 people and requires multi-factor authentication.

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Context & Analysis

Rounda's pitch rests on a problem it says is common: successful prompts and procedures stay inside one person's chat history, and each task's best model is retried from scratch every time. A single-vendor corporate plan, the company argues, makes cross-vendor comparison impossible in principle. RoundaChat is built around that gap, letting one input query several models at once and displaying content, response time and per-request cost side by side, including locally hosted models registered through an OpenAI-compatible API.

The beta is structured to gather evidence rather than just distribute software. Rounda says it will validate with participating organizations what value the platform brings to work and which tasks to tackle next, feeding results into development. Participants are capped at 10 people per organization, first invitations are planned for late November, and usage stops automatically at the quota unless an administrator registers the organization's own API key — a design that keeps the trial bounded for both sides.

FAQ

How much does the beta cost, and will it automatically become paid?: It is free, and Rounda says the trial will not automatically convert into a paid contract or incur charges after the period ends.
How much AI usage is covered during the beta?: Rounda covers usage within a capped quota — roughly 10,000 standard-model chats, about 1,000 comparisons of three models at once, or about 1,000 AI-generated document drafts — and usage stops automatically at the cap unless an admin registers the company's own API key.
What are the conditions for joining?: It is open to corporations, universities and research institutions on a screening basis, and participants must cooperate with usage interviews, use multi-factor authentication and agree to the terms as an organization.

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