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.