Freebuff (formerly Codebuff)
A free, ad-supported family of coding agents for the terminal, desktop, browser and GitHub, built on Codebuff.
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About Freebuff (formerly Codebuff)
Freebuff, the successor to Codebuff, offers coding and research agents with a choice of leading models and no subscription, credits or API key: a CLI for the terminal, a desktop app for running parallel agents, a web builder for full-stack apps, a cloud agent for GitHub repositories and a chat product. Text ads pay for access to the included models.
Freebuff (formerly Codebuff) is a project written primarily in TypeScript, with 13k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
npm install -g freebuffFreebuff (formerly Codebuff) vs. the alternatives
All 49 alternatives →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
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| Freebuff (formerly Codebuff)this listing | 13k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Free |
| OpenCode | 210k | — | MIT | Open source |
| gemini-cli | 107k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Zed | 91k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Open source |
| OpenHands | 89k | — | MIT | Open source |
| Cline | 69k | — | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
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