Getting started — Instabase Documentation

You can have your own community account and be part of an organization. All content in your community and organization accounts is kept separate. If your accounts share an email address, you can change between your accounts, without needing to log out, by selecting your organization or community account name in the AI Hub header.

Create a community account

Although you can try out some AI Hub functions without creating a community account, creating an account lets you try more apps and features and save the apps you build for later use.

To create your own community account, you can either create email and password login credentials or, if your email is tied to a Google Account, you can use Sign in with Google. When you register with an email address and password, you must set up multifactor authentication using either SMS or an authenticator app.

Using Sign in with Google is supported but not required for email addresses tied to a Google Account. If needed, you can later create email and password credentials, with the same email address, to access the same AI Hub account.

Registered accounts get 500 free consumption units to try out AI Hub’s capabilities. Familiarize yourself with consumption unit usage rates before getting started. When you run out of units, you can add more units to your account at any time from your billing settings.

Join an organization

Joining an organization gives you access to your organization’s subscription and consumption units. As an organization member you get:

A personal workspace within your organization.

Access to full AI Hub functionality, including features available exclusively with a commercial or enterprise subscription such as shared workspaces, Build project collaboration, and app sharing within your organization.

Organization-managed billing, with consumption units shared between all members of your organization. While consumption units are shared across the organization, organization admins can see usage details for each member.

Joining an organization starts with receiving an invitation email. Invitations are sent by your organization admin, but arrive from the email address no-reply@instabase.com. When you accept the invitation, complete the sign-up process using the email address to which your invitation was sent. You can either create email and password login credentials or, if your email is tied to a Google Account, you can use Sign in with Google. When you register with an email address and password, you must set up multifactor authentication using either SMS or an authenticator app.

Start an organization

Any user with a community account who is not already a member of an organization can initiate a one-time free trial of an AI Hub Commercial subscription. The person who starts the trial becomes the organization admin and is responsible for managing the organization and trial.

AI Hub Commercial trials include all features available with a paid subscription. Trials lasts 14 days and includes $75 (USD) worth of usage. See Managing billing and usage for details.