Free AI coding agent
for your terminal.

  • No API key
  • No monthly subscription
  • Free models every day

Clixad reads your project, edits files and runs commands. Nothing changes until you have seen the diff and said yes.

get started
npm install -g clixad

Node 20 or newer. Then clixad login signs you in with GitHub, and clixad in a project opens the agent.

clixad · ~/acme-api ⠹ /model
›Select model
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Free every day

Five models, free every day.

GPT-5 Nano, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Kimi K2.5 are free every day, up to a daily limit of 40,000 credits of usage per account. It is one pool for all five, so it goes further on the cheaper ones. Past the limit they cost credits like every other model, until it resets at 00:00 UTC.

A new account starts on DeepSeek V4 Flash, free for about — turns a day

What each free model gives you · DeepSeek V4 Flash, free

Free turns a day on each free model, from the daily allowance
Free model Credits per turn Free turns a day
What you skip

No key to paste, and nothing that renews.

No API key

You sign in with GitHub. Every model call goes through our gateway, which holds the provider keys, so you never open an account with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. 13 models from five vendors sit on one balance, and /model switches between them mid-session.

AI coding without an API key

No monthly subscription

Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Credits you earn or buy do not expire, and a credit pack is a one-time purchase, so a month you do not code costs nothing.

An AI coding agent with no subscription

Free today. No key, no card, no invite.

npm install -g clixad

How it works

How Clixad works, in three steps.

Install and sign in

npm install -g clixad, then GitHub. 25,000 credits are in your wallet on signup, and the free models are open from the first turn.

Point it at your project

It reads and searches your files, edits them and runs commands. Nothing is written until you have seen the diff and said yes.

Past the free limit?

Spend credits, or finish an offer and the credits land in seconds; the task carries on where it stopped. Screened out costs you nothing but the time.

Past the free limit

Top up on demand, and you decide when.

Past the free limit, and on the stronger models, credits are how you pay the AI for its work. An advertiser pays us for a completed offer, and most of that comes back to you. Nothing starts on its own: you open the offerwall when you run out.

From our own ledger: what completed offers on the CPX wall paid. The other offerwalls are not quoted here. Being screened out part way through is the normal way an attempt ends, not a fault, and pays nothing or a small bonus.

Or buy credits, never required: /buy in the terminal opens a one-time pack.

Three smaller ones need no offerwall at all:

  • A daily streak. The grant rises each consecutive day, through the seventh.
  • Rate an answer. Every fiftieth turn, and it pays the same either way.
  • Invite someone. Both of you are credited on their first completed offer.
Do the math

How many coding turns does one offer buy?

A turn is one question and one answer: read four files, change two lines, explain why. The table counts them for models across the catalog, from one offer at the median CPX payout.

One offer at the median buys — coding turns on Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

A turn is about 20,000 tokens in and 1,500 out; a token is roughly three quarters of a word. Every figure counts from the median completed CPX offer, credits at today’s rate, so half of those offers paid less.

Coding turns per model for one offer at the median CPX payout
Model Credits per turn Turns at the median
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Clixad free to use?

Yes. There is no subscription, no API key and no card. Five models are free every day up to a daily limit, and you get 25,000 credits when you sign up. After that you top up by completing an offer on the offerwall, credited on completion, and smaller grants arrive without a wall at all: a daily streak, rating an answer every fiftieth turn, and inviting someone who goes on to complete their first offer. Buying credits is possible, but never required.

Do I need an API key?

No. You sign in with GitHub, and every model call goes through our gateway, which holds the provider keys. You never open an account with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, and every model in the catalog sits on one balance.

Is there a monthly subscription?

No. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Credits you earn or buy do not expire, and a credit pack is a one-time purchase, so a month you do not code costs nothing.

Which models are free?

GPT-5 Nano, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Kimi K2.5, up to 40,000 credits of usage per account per day. That allowance sits inside a daily budget across everybody, so on a busy day the free turns can run out sooner. Every other model costs credits per turn. Premium models such as Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol run on credits you earn on the offer walls or buy, and the signup bonus and other bonus credits pay for budget models only. Buying any pack once opens premium to all your credits.

Do I have to watch ads?

Only when you want more credits, and you choose which offer. You are credited when the advertiser confirms you finished. Being screened out part way through is the normal case, not a fault, and pays nothing or a small bonus. No offer opens on its own: you go to the offerwall yourself. The one thing you do not start is the sponsored line: while a model call runs, the terminal can show an ad in up to three places, each one marked as an ad. You can switch them all off.

Can advertisers see my code?

No. Your code, your prompts and the name of your project are never sent to an advertiser. Offers open in a separate page in your browser. The sponsored line in the terminal has no field a prompt could travel in. It is fetched from the ad network by your machine, though, so they see your IP address, the way any site you open does.

How does Clixad make money?

Advertisers pay us for a completed offer, and a little for a sponsored line shown in the terminal. Most of that money goes straight back out to you as credits and we keep a small share. That share is the whole business, which is why the free tier is not a trial that quietly runs out.

What is a coding agent?

A program you run in your terminal that works inside your project: it opens files, edits them, and runs commands like your test suite. Clixad shows you a diff of every change it wants to make and waits for you to approve it.

Five steps, about a minute.

No API key, no card, no invite code, and nothing to watch before you start.

  1. npm install -g clixad, on Node 20 or newer.
  2. clixad login prints a code and opens github.com/login/device. Paste it there.
  3. 25,000 credits land in your wallet on signup.
  4. clixad in your project. The free models are open, and it asks before it changes anything.
  5. /earn or /buy when you want more than the free models: finish an offer or buy a pack, and the task carries on.