The free summary checks whether it feels accurate
A free summary has one job: to show you the skeleton of your chart. You get your four animals, your Five Elements balance and a first direction about how you handle pressure.
Use it as a sample, not a verdict. Read it with one question in mind: does this describe something I recognize in my own week?
If the free part already sounds like it could fit anyone, a longer version of the same writing will not help. Stop there and keep your money.
The full report expands into life areas
The full report splits the reading into life areas. Work style covers how you plan, decide and cope with authority. Relationships covers closeness, boundaries and repair. Money habits covers spending rhythm and risk. Stress rhythm covers what drains you and what restores you.
Each area should give you two things: an explanation and an action. Not just 'you need structure', but 'vague briefs will stall you, so ask for a two-line scope before starting'.
That split matters because the same chart behaves differently in different rooms. A person can be decisive at work and hesitant at home, and both can be true at once.
It should not just be a longer free summary
A longer free summary is not a full report. The difference is method, not word count. A full report should show how it moved from chart structure to conclusion: which pillar, which element, which pressure, which outlet.
Ask three questions before upgrading. Does it explain why, not only what? Does it separate stable observations from uncertain ones when birth data is incomplete? Does it stay honest about what a chart cannot decide?
If the answers are yes, the report is doing real work. If it only adds adjectives, it is padding.
Paid reports are language-specific
Paid reports are generated and stored in the language you buy. An English report is written in English; a Chinese report is written in Chinese. They are not machine copies of each other.
That matters for nuance. Every language has its own way of describing pressure, duty and closeness, and a good report uses the reader's idiom. If you want to read in two languages, buy two reports instead of expecting one to flip.
Keep the language you think in. A report is useful only when its sentences land in your own head.
Start free, then choose what you need
Start with the free summary. It shows whether the framework fits your questions and whether the writing style suits you.
Upgrade only when you have a specific question the free summary could not answer, such as how to handle a repeating conflict or how to rebuild your week around your strongest hours.
The best test is behavioural. If the free part changed one habit this week, the full report is likely worth reading. If it changed nothing, an upgrade probably will not either.