terms of service

version of 20 October 2026

The short version. Clixad is free: a few of the cheapest models are free to use up to a daily limit, and beyond that you earn credits by completing offers from advertising networks and spend them on model calls. The welcome bonus, our own surveys and other bonus credits pay for budget models; premium models take credits you earned on the offer walls or bought. Credits count usage inside this product — they are not money, they cannot be paid out, and they do not expire. Your code stays yours and so does what the agent writes; we do not store either. The agent only changes what you let it change, so keep your work in version control. You have to be 18. If you buy a credit pack, section 13 sets out your right of withdrawal and how it ends. Section 18 says what we are liable for, and it does not try to exclude what the law does not let us exclude.

1. who we are and what these terms cover

The provider of Clixad, and your counterparty under this contract, is:

Florian Rappold
Maikäferstraße 3f
85551 Kirchheim bei München, Germany
Email: info@clixad.io

Further provider information is in the imprint.

These terms govern your use of everything we operate under the name Clixad: this website and its blog, the offer wall, the chat and the account page served by our gateway, the clixad command line tool distributed through the npm registry, and the gateway the tool and the chat talk to. Together they are called “Clixad” below, and “we” and “us” mean the provider named above.

A business that books advertising with us does so under the separate advertising terms, not under these.

Your own general terms and conditions do not apply, even if we do not object to them separately, unless we have agreed to them in writing. Where these terms distinguish between a consumer and an entrepreneur, those words have the meaning given to them by § 13 and § 14 BGB.

How we handle personal data is not settled here but in the privacy policy, which forms no part of this contract and is not a contractual promise.

2. what clixad is, and what it is not

Clixad is a coding agent that runs in your own terminal. It reads the files you point it at, proposes changes to them, and can run shell commands. Model calls are not made on your machine: the tool sends them to our gateway, and the gateway forwards them to a model provider through OpenRouter. This is why the tool holds no model provider key and why credits, model switching and metering work without you having an account anywhere else.

The same account can also be used in a browser, in a chat on our site that answers questions with the same models, credits and limits, without access to your files or your terminal. What is said about model calls, credits and their limits in these terms applies to both.

What Clixad is not:

• It is not advice. What the models produce is automated output. It is not legal, tax, financial or business advice, and it is no substitute for review by somebody competent to give it.
• It is not a backup or storage service. Your files stay on your machine. We do not hold a copy of your project and cannot restore one. Conversations in the chat on our site are kept by your browser, not by us, and are gone if the browser's data is cleared.
• It is not finished. Clixad is a public beta. Section 16 says what follows from that.

3. who may use clixad

• You have to be at least 18 and have full legal capacity. Real money moves through this service in both directions, and we do not enter into this contract with minors.
• One account per person. Opening a second account — to earn a second welcome bonus, to get past a daily ceiling, or to refer yourself — is a breach of section 15.
• If you use Clixad for an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to enter into this contract on its behalf, and the contract is then with that organisation as well as with you.
• Not where the law or a supplier forbids it. You may not use Clixad if you, or anybody you act for, are subject to sanctions of the European Union, the United Nations or the United States, or if you are in a country from which the model providers behind OpenRouter exclude use. Their acceptable use policies apply to what you send through us as if you had sent it to them directly.

4. how the contract is concluded

Installing the tool concludes nothing. The contract for the free service comes about when you sign in with GitHub and we create an account for you. The tool shows you these terms and the privacy policy before that step, and by continuing with the sign-in you accept them.

The free service is free: no obligation to pay arises from it at any point, and none can arise later without a separate purchase under section 12. Each credit pack you buy is its own contract, concluded as described there.

There is no right to an account. We may keep signups closed, run a waitlist or require an invite, and we may refuse to create an account without giving reasons.

5. your account

Your account is identified by your GitHub login. Signing in gives us read access to your public profile and your email addresses and nothing else.

Signing in stores an access token on your machine, in ~/.clixad/config.json. That token spends your credits, so treat it as a password: do not share it, do not commit it, and do not pass it to anybody who asks for it. Keep the account to yourself. If you think the token has been seen by somebody else, write to info@clixad.io and we will invalidate it. Until you do, you are responsible for what happens under your account, unless you are not at fault for it.

Deleting ~/.clixad, or running clixad logout, removes the token from that machine. It does not delete the account — section 17 covers that.

6. credits

A credit is the unit we count model usage in. It is an entry in your account with us, and it is nothing else. In particular:

• Credits are not money. They are not electronic money, not a payment instrument and not a claim to a sum of money. They cannot be paid out, converted into cash, exchanged, transferred to another account, sold or given away, and they have no value outside Clixad.
• Credits do not expire. We do not reduce a balance for inactivity and we run nothing that removes credits over time.
• What a request costs follows from the price of the model you chose and how many tokens the request used. Prices per model are shown in the tool and change when a model provider changes theirs. Before you send a task, the tool shows an estimate of what it may cost and whether your credits cover it. The estimate is a guide based on how tasks usually run. What is charged is what the requests actually used, which can be more or less.
• Bonus credits have a daily limit per account. Bonus credits are the ones we grant without anybody paying for them, such as the welcome bonus or our own surveys (sections 8 and 10). Each account can spend a limited number of them per UTC day on models that are not free and on web searches. Credits from completed offers on the offer walls (section 7) have no daily limit, and an account that has bought credits under section 12 has no daily limit of its own. On a budget model and for a web search your bonus credits are spent first, as far as the limits allow, and then your other credits, so that credits from offers or purchases stay for the premium models they pay for. When you reach the limit, requests that would need bonus credits are refused until 00:00 UTC. The tool tells you when it resets and how to keep going today, with credits the limit does not cover or with a free model. A refused request costs nothing, and your credits stay in your balance for the next day. Free usage under section 10 does not count toward the limit. Separately there is a daily limit across everybody on what is spent from bonus credits: on a day it is reached, bonus credits pause for everyone until 00:00 UTC, while credits from offers or purchases keep working.
• Premium models take credits from the offer walls or purchases. Each model is either a budget model or a premium model, and the tool marks which before you pick one. Bonus credits pay for budget models only, also on an account that has bought credits. Credits an advertising network or an advertiser paid for (sections 7, 9 and 11) and credits bought under section 12 pay for every model. An account whose first purchase was made before 19 October 2026 keeps the rule it bought under: a premium model takes all of its credits, bonus credits included, and neither daily limit applies to them. A request to a premium model that those credits cannot pay for is refused before anything is generated and costs nothing, and the tool says how to unlock the model. Your bonus credits stay in your balance and keep working on budget models.
• Some model usage costs no credits at all. A few of the cheapest models are free to use, up to a daily limit per account and within a daily budget shared by everybody using Clixad. The per-account limit is one pool across all of those models, so every free turn draws on the same limit whichever of them you pick. The tool marks which models those are and shows what is left before and while you use them. Once either limit is reached, and on every other model, the prices above apply as usual.
• Using a free model neither costs credits nor earns them. Nothing is taken from your balance for it and nothing is added for the usage itself. Rewards you can earn during a request — rating an answer, or a sponsored line shown while the model works — are a separate thing and are still paid, at the lower rate section 10 sets out. Section 10 also says what we may change about free usage.
• A new account is credited a welcome bonus of 25,000 credits. It is a voluntary grant under section 10.
• Only three things remove credits: spending them, a reversal by an advertising network under section 7, and termination under section 17.

7. earning credits at the offerwall

Credits are earned by completing offers on an offer wall. The walls are operated by third parties, CPX Research and TheoremReach, and when you open one you leave Clixad. What you are asked, whether you qualify, and whether an attempt counts as completed is decided by that network and the advertiser behind it, under their terms and not ours.

• Most attempts end without credit, and that is normal. Being screened out of a survey partway through is the most common outcome of starting one. It is how these networks work, not a fault in the service, and it is not a reason to claim anything from us.
• Every amount is stated on completion. The figure on an offer is what the network pays when it reports the offer as completed. Some networks also pay a small amount when a survey screens you out partway through; whether a network does, and how much, is up to that network, and what it pays is credited like any other reward, within a separate daily limit. What an offer pays varies widely from one offer to the next, and how long an offer takes does not predict what it pays.
• We may set a daily ceiling. We may limit how much network payout per account per day is converted into credits. While a ceiling applies, an event that would carry you past it is refused whole rather than credited in part.
• A reversal takes the credits back. If a network reverses a completion — because the advertiser rejected it, or because it was found to be fraudulent — we take back exactly what that completion granted, whatever you have spent in the meantime. Your balance can go negative as a result. A negative balance stops you spending but never stops you earning, and it clears as you earn.
• We do not choose what you are shown and we promise no availability. There is no guarantee that offers exist for you, that you will qualify for any of them, or that any amount can be earned in any period.

Interfering with how a network measures a completion is a breach of section 15.

8. our own surveys

Some surveys are ours. They are written by us, answered on this site, and paid for out of our own pocket — there is no advertising network on the other side of them, and nobody pays us for your answers. That makes them a different arrangement from section 7 in every respect that matters to you, and the differences are all in your favour except the last one.

• You do not leave Clixad, and there is no screening out. You are not matched against an advertiser’s quota part-way through. If a survey is offered to you and you complete it properly, it is credited.
• The amount is stated on completion, and it is set by us. Each survey shows what it pays before you start, and that figure is what is credited when it is submitted and accepted; the surveys we offer at the moment pay 10,000 credits. Nothing is paid for starting one, and an answer submitted faster than the minimum time shown at the top of the survey is not credited.
• They pay bonus credits. Nobody pays us for these surveys, so what they credit is bonus credits, which pay for budget models only (section 6).
• Each survey pays once per account. One completed answer per survey, per account.
• Up to six a day, and up to two more after an offer wall attempt. No more than six surveys per account are credited in one day, counted in UTC. Each attempt at an offer wall from section 7 that earns you nothing that day adds one more, up to two more a day. An attempt is a wall you opened from your account at least three minutes earlier, and an offer you complete that day is set against your attempts. Once you have had your surveys, no further survey is offered to you until the next day; the offer walls in section 7 are unaffected and still there. A survey that was not credited, because a check was failed or because the day’s budget had gone, does not count against the limit.
• Surveys contain attention checks, and failing one costs the attempt. At least one question has a correct answer that we check — it asks you to do something plainly stated, not to know something. An answer that fails it is stored, is not credited, and uses up your one attempt at that survey. This is how we keep the answers worth having.
• There is a daily budget, and it is shared. We spend a fixed amount on these each day across all users, alongside any per-account ceiling under section 7, which applies to these as well. When the budget for the day is used up, no further survey is offered until the next day, and the offer walls are still there in the meantime. If it runs out between you starting a survey and submitting it, your answers are kept and you may submit them again the following day.
• We promise no availability. There may be no survey for you at any given moment, and we may stop offering them at any time.

We are the controller for the answers you give here, and we keep them. What we store and why is set out in the privacy policy, which you should read before answering one. Submitting answers that are not genuine — automated, random, or copied — is a breach of section 15.

9. sponsored surveys

Some surveys are written by a company that pays us for the answers. They are marked “Sponsored by” with the company’s name and answered on this site, and we run them: the company never learns who answered. It sees how many people chose each answer, and only once enough people have answered that no count can point at one person.

• The amount is shown before you start, and it is what is credited when your answers are submitted and accepted. Nothing is paid for starting one, and answers submitted faster than the minimum time shown at the top of the survey are not credited.
• Each survey pays once per account, and no more than three sponsored surveys per account are credited in one day, counted in UTC.
• They are open to accounts signed in with GitHub whose GitHub account is at least 30 days old and which have made at least three model calls. The first time you start one, we look up when your GitHub account was created and keep that date.
• Every sponsored survey contains a check of ours. It asks you to do something plainly stated, not to know something. An answer that fails it is stored, is not credited, and uses up your attempt at that survey.
• A survey you have started is held for you for an hour. If the company’s budget runs out or the survey ends in that hour, your answers are still credited when you submit them. After the hour the survey may have closed.
• The per-account ceiling under section 7 applies to these as well, and we promise no availability: there may be no sponsored survey at any given moment, and we may stop offering them at any time.

We are the controller for the answers you give, and the company receives counts and nothing else. What we store is set out in the privacy policy. Submitting answers that are not genuine, whether automated, random or copied, is a breach of section 15.

10. free usage and the other credit grants

Besides the offer wall we sometimes grant credits for something else: a bonus when you first sign up, a small amount for signing in on consecutive days, an amount for rating an answer, an amount when somebody you invited completes their first offer, and codes we hand out for a particular occasion.

We also make a few of the cheapest models free to use, up to a daily limit per account and within a total daily budget across everybody using Clixad. The per-account limit is a single pool shared by all of those models, not a limit per model, so how far it goes depends on which you use: a turn on the cheapest draws far less from it than a turn on the dearest. Which models are free, what the limit is, and how much of it is left are shown in the tool. Either limit can be reached, and when one is, all of those models cost credits again for the rest of the day. Free usage is not a credit grant: no credits are added to your account for it and none are taken away.

Where a reward is paid for something that happens during a request — rating an answer, or a sponsored line shown while the model is working — a request we paid for is rewarded at a lower rate than one you paid for.

The free usage and these grants are voluntary and are marketing, not payment for anything and not part of what you buy under section 12. The amounts and limits are shown in the tool at the time, and the grants are much smaller than what one completed offer pays. We may change them, cap them, pause them or stop them at any time, and neither repeated grants nor a period of free usage creates an entitlement to further ones. Where a grant or free usage was obtained through a breach of section 15 we may withdraw it.

11. the sponsored line

While a model call is running the terminal may show one line above the input box. When that line comes from an advertising network it is marked Ad · before the text; without the mark it is our own content. We may also show an advertisement in a card beside the working line and in a row under the status line. Those two only ever carry advertising and are marked Ad ahead of the text in the same way. Advertising is always marked as advertising, and we never present paid content as anything else.

Each of these is fetched by the tool on your machine, directly from the network, so the network sees your IP address the way any website you open does. What that request contains is set out in the privacy policy.

A business can also book one of these places with us for a week. Its line then comes from our own server instead of the network, is marked Ad in the same way, and credits you on the same terms as an advertisement from the network. Where your terminal supports links, the line is a link that goes through our server to the business’s website.

None of them is ever shown in anything that is not an interactive terminal, and you can switch them off entirely with CLIXAD_SPONSOR=0 or "sponsor": false in ~/.clixad/config.json. Switched off, no request to the network is made at all.

12. buying credits

Buying credits is optional and never required — everything in the product can be paid for with credits you earned. The packs are:

• Mini — 280,000 credits — $3.00
• Starter — 500,000 credits — $5.00
• Plus — 1,650,000 credits — $15.00
• Pro — 6,000,000 credits — $50.00

Prices are in US dollars and are total prices. As a small business within the meaning of § 19 UStG we charge and show no value added tax. Stripe's payment page may show the price in your local currency and let you pay in it. The amount in that currency is converted at an exchange rate Stripe sets, which includes a conversion charge, and it is shown on that page before you pay. Each pack is a single purchase: there is no subscription, nothing recurring and nothing to cancel.

There are two places to start a purchase: type /buy in the terminal, or open the credits section at the bottom of the offer wall in your browser. Before anything is charged, both show you the pack, the price and the two declarations in section 13 and ask you to confirm them, and both then open Stripe Checkout. The contract is concluded when you complete the payment there; until then nothing is binding and you can stop at any point.

Payment is handled by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, D02 H210, Ireland. Stripe's own page shows the payment methods available for your purchase, and you choose one there. Your payment details are entered on that page or with the provider of the method you choose; we neither see nor store them. Credits are added to your account as soon as Stripe reports the payment as cleared — normally within seconds, though some payment methods settle later. You receive an invoice by email, which is also the confirmation of the contract on a durable medium.

Credits you bought are credits like any other and section 6 applies to them in full — in particular they cannot be paid out. They pay for every model, premium ones included; bonus credits keep paying for budget models only (section 6). Section 17 says what happens to unspent bought credits if the contract ends.

13. your right of withdrawal

This section applies if you are a consumer within the meaning of § 13 BGB, and it concerns credit-pack purchases under section 12 only. The free service costs nothing, so there is nothing there to withdraw from.

Right of withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, you must inform us — Florian Rappold, Maikäferstraße 3f, 85551 Kirchheim bei München, Germany, info@clixad.io — of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement, for example a letter sent by post or an email. You may use the model withdrawal form below, but it is not obligatory. To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal. If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you without undue delay and in any event not later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in no event will you be charged any fees for such reimbursement.

When the right of withdrawal ends early. Credits are digital content that is not supplied on a tangible medium, and they are delivered as soon as your payment clears. So before you pay, we ask you to declare two things: that you expressly request that we begin performance of the contract before the withdrawal period has expired, and that you acknowledge that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once performance has begun. Your right of withdrawal expires under § 356 (5) BGB once we have delivered the credits after you made both declarations and we have sent you the confirmation of the contract.

If you do not make those declarations we cannot start the purchase, because we would then have to hold the credits back for fourteen days, which is not what anybody buying them wants.

Model withdrawal form

14. your code, your prompts, and the agent's output

Your code stays yours. Nothing in these terms gives us any right in it. To answer a request the tool sends the conversation — your instructions, the file contents it read, the results of the commands it ran — through our gateway to the model provider, and you grant us the simple right to transmit and process it for exactly that purpose, for as long as it takes, and for nothing else. We do not store it; the one exception, which happens only when you choose it, is described in the privacy policy.

What the agent writes back is yours to the extent that it can be owned at all. We claim no rights in it and place no restriction on what you do with it.

But it is not exclusive, and it is not warranted. A model derives its output from the prompt it was given. A similar prompt from somebody else can produce similar or identical output, and neither we nor anybody else can grant you exclusivity in it. We do not warrant that output is correct, that it is fit for any particular purpose, or that it is free of third-party rights. Checking that before you use it is yours to do.

You decide what the agent may do. The permission mode decides what happens without asking: plan changes nothing at all, normal asks before every change and every command, and acceptEdits applies file edits without asking. You choose the mode, you can change it at any time, and if you choose one that acts without asking then what it does is your decision as much as the agent's.

Keep your work in version control, or take backups. The agent edits files on your machine and can run commands there. Version control is the only reliable way to undo an edit you did not want, and section 18 limits what we owe you if data is lost.

Where you configure the tool to talk to somebody else's MCP server, that server is a third party you chose. Section 19 applies to it.

The Clixad software, this website and our own content are protected by copyright and remain ours. You may use the command line tool for its purpose; you may not resell it, offer it as a service of your own, or remove the notices in it.

15. what you must not do

Any of the following is a material breach of this contract and lets us act under section 17:

• Manufacturing earnings. Completing offers with bots, scripts, emulators or farms; giving false answers to get through a survey; misrepresenting where you are or who you are; holding more than one account; reporting advertising impressions that were never shown; or automating the tool so that impressions or grants accrue without anybody using it.
• Trading credits. Selling, buying, transferring or offering credits or accounts.
• Getting around limits. Circumventing daily ceilings, rate limits, the signup gate or any other technical restriction.
• Attacking the service. Probing, overloading or interfering with the gateway, reverse-engineering it beyond what § 69d and § 69e UrhG permit, or trying to reach data that is not yours.
• Unlawful and abusive use of the agent. Using it to produce malware, to break into systems you are not authorised to test, to infringe somebody's rights, or for any purpose the model providers' acceptable use policies forbid.
• Misusing our name. Presenting Clixad as your own product, or suggesting an affiliation or endorsement that does not exist.

16. availability, beta status and changes to the service

Clixad is a public beta and is offered as it stands. We do not owe any particular availability and give no uptime commitment: the service may be interrupted, and features, models and earning paths may be changed or removed. The gateway depends on services other people run (section 19), and an outage at one of them is an outage here.

Because you receive the free service in return for advertising and the data that comes with it, it is a contract for a digital product within the meaning of §§ 327 ff. BGB. The statutory rules on conformity and on updates apply to it and are not excluded by these terms. For as long as the contract lasts we will supply the updates, including security updates, that you may expect for a product of this kind.

Where a change materially disadvantages you, section 20 applies.

17. suspension and termination

You can stop using Clixad at any time; there is nothing to cancel and no notice period. To have the account itself deleted, use “Delete my account” on the account page of our site, or write to info@clixad.io from the address on the account or naming your GitHub login. Deletion ends this contract, and the credits on the account lapse as the last paragraph of this section says. An account whose balance is below zero after a reversal is deleted by writing to us. For 30 days after a deletion the same GitHub account cannot open a new account, and a new account opened with it within 12 months of the deletion receives no signup bonus.

We may terminate the free contract with fourteen days' notice. Either of us may terminate for cause without notice; cause on our side is in particular a material or repeated breach of section 3 or section 15. Where a breach can be put right we will normally warn you first and give you the chance to do so. We may suspend an account immediately and without warning where waiting would cause us or an advertising network damage, in particular on a well-founded suspicion of manufactured completions or impressions — and we will tell you why as soon as we reasonably can.

Credits when the contract ends. Credits you were granted free of charge lapse without compensation, because nothing was paid for them. Credits you bought under section 12 and have not spent are treated differently: if we terminate without cause, or discontinue the service, we refund them pro rata at the price you paid. If you terminate, or if we terminate for cause, they lapse with the rest. Statutory claims are unaffected.

18. liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Produkthaftungsgesetz, and where we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence we are liable only where we breach an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely (an essential contractual obligation), and in that case only for the damage that is foreseeable and typical for a contract of this kind.

Loss of data. Our liability for the loss of data is limited to the cost of recovering it from backup copies that you keep properly, regularly, and in a way appropriate to the risk. This matters more here than it usually would, because the agent edits files on your machine and runs commands there: keep your work in version control.

Any further liability is excluded. The limitations above apply to our personal liability and equally to that of our employees, representatives and anybody we use to perform this contract.

Nothing in this section is intended to change the burden of proof to your disadvantage, or to limit or exclude any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

19. third-party services

Clixad stands on services other people operate. Their own terms govern what they do, and we are not responsible for their content, their availability or their conduct:

• Model providers. Requests are routed to OpenRouter, Inc., which passes them to the provider of the model you picked. Their acceptable use policies apply to what you send.
• Advertising networks. CPX Research and TheoremReach operate the offer walls; ADtention serves the sponsored line wherever no business has booked the place with us.
• Payments. Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd.
• Sign-in. GitHub, Inc.

Links from our pages to theirs are not an endorsement, and we have no influence on what they show you. Where one of these stops being available to us, section 16 applies.

20. changes to these terms

We may change these terms where there is a valid reason to: a change in the law or in case law, a change in how the service works, a new feature, or a change at one of the third parties in section 19.

We will tell you at least 30 days before a change takes effect — by email to the address on your account, or in the tool itself — naming the new version date and what changed.

We do not treat silence as consent. A change that materially disadvantages you binds you only if you accept it. If you do not, you may terminate free of charge with effect from the day the change would take effect, and we may terminate under section 17 instead. The version that applies is the one published on this page, and each carries its date.

21. governing law, disputes, and language

German law applies, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are habitually resident, and you may bring proceedings before the courts that the law of that country makes available to you.

If you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this contract is Munich, Germany.

Consumer arbitration. We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. Please write to info@clixad.io first — almost everything is quicker to settle that way.

Language. These terms and this contract are in English. English is the language in which the service is provided and in which we correspond.

Severability. Should a provision of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.