Felo
Multilingual AI search engine that answers across languages and builds mind maps and slides.
why this verdict
Cancel it — switch to ChatGPT
ChatGPT and Perplexity now cover the same core job on a free tier, so the $16/mo is optional.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- ChatGPT search with citations and native multilingual answers built in. OpenAI, June 10, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers all of it editorial call
- The whole core job — the thing the subscription was actually for.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: ChatGPT and Perplexity.
- What the call is worth $192/yr
- $16/mo at the entry paid tier — $192 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- June 10, 2025
- List price
- $16/mo
- Per year
- $192
The backstory
Felo is an AI answer engine from Tokyo whose hook was searching in many languages at once and returning a cited summary plus a mind map or deck. Cross-language retrieval was a genuine gap in English-first answer engines. That gap closed once the frontier assistants added web search with citations and handled other languages natively at no extra cost. A paid tier that resells the same models to do the same job has nowhere to hide.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $192/yrWeb search with citations in any language
chatgpt.com open_in_newAnswer engine with sources and follow-up threads
perplexity.ai open_in_newPaid search with an optional assistant layer
kagi.com open_in_new2 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.