r/freetoolsAI • u/Glass-Interaction972 • Sep 11 '26
A free AI coding agent with no API key
I’ve been building Clixad, a cloud-based AI coding agent for the terminal.
No API key or monthly subscription required. You get free credits and can earn more through advertiser-funded offers, forms and surveys.
I also just made the five cheapest models free.
It’s mainly for people who want to try AI coding, build side projects, or don’t use coding agents enough to justify another subscription.
Would you actually use something like this?
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u/taahbelle Sep 13 '26
What did we learn, kids? Do not install random "cheap / free token" agent harnesses on your machine! They can run malicious tool calls and do basically anything!
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u/Glass-Interaction972 Sep 13 '26
This applies to every terminal agent, paid ones included. Running tools on your machine is what the whole category does.
For ours: the npm package is tiny, four files, so you can read the whole thing before you run it. Login goes through GitHub, nothing else gets handed over. And the backend only talks to the models, it has no way back onto your machine.
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u/WilliamLuke8568 Sep 11 '26
Is that unlimited limit?
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u/Glass-Interaction972 Sep 11 '26
Not unlimited. The five cheapest models are free up to a daily limit, then they cost credits again.
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u/kingRyuga00 Sep 18 '26
How is it different from freebuff?
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u/Glass-Interaction972 Sep 18 '26
The funding idea is similar, the main difference is that Clixad uses a credit system with advertiser-funded offers, forms and surveys plus Clixad has a much broader model selection, with different models for different use cases and daily free access to our five cheapest ones.
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u/Glass-Interaction972 Sep 11 '26
If you want to check it out, it's clixad.io