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Instinct has no price list. Nothing on its site, in its terms or in its sign-up flow names a figure, and Fortune calls it a free assistant. What stands between you and it is a gate: an invitation from a member, or a place on the waitlist. The terms reserve the right to charge later, in US dollars and without refunds, and the agent trains on your data unless you opt out.
Instinct sells nothing today, so this table lists ways in rather than plans. Both are free and neither opens on demand; the price column carries what Instinct itself says about money, which is nothing. The line under the table is what the press says instead.
| Route | Bought as | Price | What it buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invitation from a member | Early access | None published | A link from someone already inside: the invite page opens only from one. Each member gets five, Fortune reported on 30 September, citing the Wall Street Journal. Signing up takes a phone number and a one-time code sent by text. |
| Waitlist | Early access | None published | Join with a phone number at app.instinct.com and wait for a welcome text or email when your spot opens. No date is given; the founder has said Instinct stays invite-only while it brings up more compute. |
No price is published anywhere Instinct writes — not on its site, in its terms or in its sign-up flow — and Fortune describes it as a free assistant. The terms reserve the right to charge for "certain features" in US dollars, to change prices at any time, and make every payment non-refundable. Free is not the same as open: getting in takes an invitation or a turn on the waitlist.
Read off, in order of appearance: fortune.com/noah-shinn-instinct-ai-assistant-m, 2026-10-02 instinct.com/terms, 2026-10-02
Take it: it is the only quick way in, and each member has only a handful to give. Before you connect anything, open the workspace settings and decide about training, which is on until you opt out. And know before you start what leaving involves — disconnecting a service later does not delete what was indexed from it; that is a separate request.
Join the waitlist with your phone number and expect to wait for an unknown time: Instinct gives no date, and its founder has said the gate stays while the company brings up more compute. Fortune reported that invitations are being resold on eBay. Nothing in Instinct's terms provides for that, and an agent you will hand your passwords to is a poor thing to buy from a stranger.
Plan for a price you cannot see yet. The terms let Instinct charge for certain features, change prices at any time and refund nothing, so a free beta is a fact about today rather than a commitment. If the cost has to be fixed in advance, Muse prints its plans, and the self-hosted agents bill only for the model tokens they use.
Read the terms as an employer would. They appoint the agent your agent for agreements it makes, binding on you; they make you responsible for every action it takes; and they let Instinct suspend the service without notice. Nothing Instinct publishes offers seats, teams or admin controls. Data that arrives through Google Workspace is never used for training; mail and files from any other service fall under the same opt-out as everything else.
Instinct names no model you could buy access to, and offers no setting to supply a key of your own or to choose a model. Its homepage speaks of a core model trained for the personal side of everyday life, and its privacy policy lists third-party AI model providers among those who receive your data, without naming any. With nothing to join against, there is no per-token figure on this page and no link to our rate tables.
There is nothing to cancel, because nothing is billed. Leaving means disconnecting the services you linked and deleting your account from the web workspace — with one step in between that is easy to miss: the terms say that disconnecting a service does not stop Instinct using what it already indexed from it unless you also request deletion, which the workspace offers.
Deleting the account is less final than it sounds. The terms say that when an account is deleted Instinct may, but is not obligated to, delete your materials, and, separately, that models already trained on your material may still be used. Opting out of training before you go changes what happens next, not what has already happened.
If charges begin, the terms have already set the rules: fees in US dollars, prices that can change at any time, and no refunds except where the law requires them. One more clause matters on the way in rather than the way out: disputes go to individual arbitration with no class actions, and the only way to keep your right to a court is to send an opt-out notice within thirty days of signing up.
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