Julius

What is Julius AI and who is it for?

Julius is an AI assistant for data analysis that has grown into a general workspace for knowledge work. You upload a CSV, Excel file, PDF or JSON, or connect a database, then ask questions in plain English. Julius writes the code, runs it in an isolated sandbox and returns charts, tables and summaries, with the code shown so you can check how it got there.

It suits analysts, marketers, finance and operations teams, students and researchers who need answers from data without writing Python or SQL. The same chat can now turn the results into a slide deck that opens in PowerPoint or Google Slides, a published website, images or video.

How much does Julius AI cost in the UK?

Julius prices its plans in US dollars on its website, so a UK card is charged the sterling equivalent. The iPhone app sells subscriptions in pounds through Apple.

• Free: a daily credit allowance, presentations, reports, websites, images and video, and the Google Drive connector
• Plus: $20 a month, or $16 billed yearly, with 2,000 credits a month and frontier models
• Pro: $45 a month, or $37 billed yearly, with 5,000 credits and a larger context window
• Max: $200 a month, or $166 billed yearly, with 25,000 credits and priority access
• Business: $450 a month, or $375 billed yearly, with 60,000 credits, up to 50 team members and database connectors
• Enterprise: priced on request, with SSO and audit logs

The pricing page does not mention VAT or a student discount.

How do Julius credits work?

Every request uses credits, and the cost depends on the model and how much work the task takes. Paid plans add a monthly allowance plus credits that refresh daily.

This is the most common complaint in recent reviews. Trustpilot reviewers who switched from the older message-based plans report single analyses using hundreds or thousands of credits, unused credits not carrying over, and purchased credits lost after cancelling. Anyone planning heavy use should start on monthly billing and watch how quickly a typical job drains the balance before committing to a year.

Is Julius AI safe for company data?

Julius holds SOC 2 Type II and TX-RAMP certification and says customer data is never used to train AI models, a promise its model providers are contractually bound by. Files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and each user's code runs in its own sandbox.

All data is stored and processed in the United States, and there is no UK or EU hosting option. Organisations with strict UK GDPR or data residency rules should check the trust centre and the data processing terms before uploading personal data.

Julius vs Anara and Runable: which should you pick?

Julius is the strongest fit when the job starts with numbers: spreadsheets, statistics and database queries, with the code visible. Anara is built for academic research, answering from papers with citations to the exact passage, so it suits literature reviews better than number crunching.

Runable is a general AI agent that also produces slides, reports and websites, and leans more towards tasks than data analysis. For a mix of chat models in one subscription, AI Fiesta is a cheaper route, but it does not run code against your files the way Julius does.

How do you get Julius AI cheaper?

Yearly billing is the main saving Julius offers: it takes Plus from $20 to $16 a month and Pro from $45 to $37, about 17 to 20% off. The free plan's daily allowance is enough to test whether Julius handles your own data before paying.

Downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period and any unused value is credited to the next invoice rather than refunded. Julius does not list a student, education or non-profit discount on its pricing page.