Clixad / free AI coding agent for your terminal
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Every other coding agent<br>$20/mo$100/mo$200/mo<br>→$0/mo
Free AI coding<br>in your terminal.
Clixad is an AI coding agent you run in your terminal.<br>It reads your project, writes code and runs commands, and asks before<br>it changes anything.
No subscription, no card. Advertisers pay for your credits, and you<br>spend them on models like Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K2.
5,000 credits on signup<br>every model, no locked tiers<br>nothing runs without your yes
get started
npm install -g clixad<br>copy
Node 20 or newer. Then clixad login signs you in with<br>GitHub and drops 5,000 credits in your wallet.
clixad · ~/acme-api<br>⠹ 4.2s
●readsrc/auth.ts
●editsrc/auth.ts+12−4
⚠Out of credits · balance 240
›How do you want to top up?
✓Credited · balance — · resuming
How you pay
Two ways to earn credits, and you pick every time.
Credits are how you pay the AI for its work , and models<br>charge for the text they read and write. An advertiser pays us for a<br>completed form or survey, and most of that money comes back to you as<br>credits. Nothing starts on its own — you pick one when you run out.
Those are amounts the wall actually paid in Germany ,<br>credited on completion. They are ranges because the advertiser is<br>pricing you and not your time — two surveys of the same length<br>can pay more than twice as differently — and both what is on<br>offer and what it pays change from country to country. Being screened<br>out part way through pays nothing, which is the normal way an attempt<br>ends rather than a fault.
And on top of whichever one you pick, there is a switch you can leave on:
Optional extra<br>soon
Let a sponsor ride along while it works
Turn it on and one line from a sponsor takes the place of the spinner<br>text you never read. It trickles a few credits in while you work.<br>It will not fund a session by itself, but it costs you nothing and<br>you can switch it off whenever you like.
Acme Cloud · deploy in one command<br>Sponsored · 0.4s
See it run
Watch it run out of credits, and keep going.
Play
The agent edits a file, hits an empty wallet, tops up, and carries on from where it stopped.
Do the math
How many coding turns does one of those buy?
A turn is one question and one answer : read four files,<br>change two lines, explain why. Pick what you are willing to do, and the<br>table recalculates for every model in the catalog.
One 2 min form buys
coding turns on Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
A turn is about 20,000 tokens in and<br>1,500 out, and a token is roughly three<br>quarters of a word. Credits are granted on completion, from what the<br>advertiser actually paid: the payouts here were observed in Germany,<br>offers pay differently per country and per advertiser, so your<br>credits will too, and not qualifying for an offer part way through<br>is a normal outcome rather than a fault. Every figure counts from<br>the low end of the range.
Coding turns per model for the selected earn action, counted from the low end of its payout range
Model<br>Credits per turn<br>Turns, at least
Want that for $0? It is open — no invite, no card.
❯ npm install -g clixad
How it works
How Clixad works, in three steps.
01
Install and sign in
npm install -g clixad, then GitHub. 5,000 credits are in your wallet before you have watched anything.
02
Point it at your project
It reads and searches your files, edits them and runs commands. Before it writes anything it shows you the diff and waits for a yes.
03
Out of credits?
Pick a form or a survey. Finish it and the credits land in seconds and the task carries on from where it stopped; get screened out and nothing is lost but the time.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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.
Is Clixad free to use?
Yes. There is no subscription and no card. You get 5,000 credits when you sign up, and after that you top up by filling in a form or taking a survey, credited on completion. Buying credits is possible, but never required.
How does Clixad make money?
Advertisers pay us for a completed form or survey. 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.
Do I have to watch ads?
Only when you want more credits, and you choose which kind. A form pays well and a survey pays the most, and you are credited when the advertiser confirms you finished. Being screened out of a survey part way through pays nothing and is the normal case, not a fault. Nothing starts on...