Getting started
Create your account
Sign up, what we ask for, and what lands in your account on day one.
Signing up takes three fields and no payment details. Every new account arrives with a one-time credit grant, which is deliberately enough to judge the product on real work rather than just watch a demo.
Creating the account
- 1
Open the sign-up page
Go to /register, or press Sign up in the top-right corner of the marketing site.
- 2
Fill in your name, email and password
Your password needs at least 8 characters and at most 128. Use an address you can read right now; the next step sends a code to it.
- 3
Press Create account
Agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy first; the checkbox is required. We generate a username from your name automatically, so there is no username field to fight with. If the generated one is already taken, we quietly try another.
- 4
Verify your email
You land on the verification screen with a six-digit code already on its way. See Verify your email.
What lands in your account
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Plan | Free. No card on file, and no expiry. |
| Plan credit | A welcome grant, given once when the account is created, which never expires. The amount is shown on the pricing page and on your billing page; see Credit and top-ups. |
| Referral code | A personal code shown in Settings; see Referrals. |
| Feature access | Everything. The free tier is limited by credit, not by features. |
Tip
You do not need a plan to try project mode, agent mode, VHDL output or any of the tools. A free account can run all of them until the credit is gone.
If a colleague sent you an invite link, the referral field on the form is already filled in; you can also paste a code into it yourself. Both of you get free runs once your email is verified. See Referrals.
If new accounts are queued
At times we let new accounts in a batch at a time. When that is happening, signing up puts you in a queue instead of dropping you straight into the app, and you land in a waiting room that shows your position. Everything else about sign-up is the same. See Early access.
Google and GitHub sign-in
If this host has Google or GitHub sign-in configured, those buttons appear on the sign-up and log-in pages. Pressing one sends you to that provider; coming back, a first-time account still has to agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before it is created. Signing in with Google is not the same as agreeing to ours.
The provider must share a verified email. Unverified provider emails are refused, and we will not create an account from them. If an account already exists for that address, the provider is linked to it rather than opening a second one. An account created this way has no password until you set one, so the email/password form will tell you to continue with Google or GitHub instead.
Microsoft sign-in is not offered yet. The VS Code extension offers the same Google and GitHub buttons: they finish in your browser, on this site, and hand the sign-in back to VS Code; see Install and sign in.
If sign-up will not go through
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| That email is already registered | An account exists for that address. Go to Log in and sign in with it. If you cannot remember the password, ask us to reset it; self-service reset is not available yet. |
| Enter a valid email address | The address failed a basic format check before anything was sent. Check for a missing dot or a stray space. |
| Your password must be at least 8 characters | Client-side check; the field never reached the server. |
| Something went wrong on our end | A server error, not your input. Wait a moment and try again; if it persists, see Support. |