Is Freebuff free?

Is the limit still 100 Freebucks per day?

A provider article describes 100 Freebucks replenished at midnight Pacific without rollover, with model rates in the picker. The newer-looking homepage and CLI page instead advertise access without tracking credits. These pages do not establish one consistent current allowance for every product and account.

Treat 100 per day as the older documented offer, not a confirmed current quota. Before starting a long task, inspect your actual model picker and usage display. Credits are not a fixed count of prompts, completed features or hours; no conversion or combined model-hour estimate is promised here.

Try one task you can check without a private repository

The official CLI page documents installing Freebuff and running it in a project. Its demonstration is provider marketing, not our benchmark. For a first attempt, use invented data in a disposable folder and decide what a correct result should look like before submitting a request.

1. Check access before setup

   Open the official site and choose the product you need. Inspect any account, location and model requirements shown to you. A no-card claim does not establish that every model or country is included.

2. Choose one bounded question

   Ask for an explanation of a short pasted example. Do not connect a private repository or external integration just to investigate the free allowance. Keep the task narrow enough that you can check it manually.

3. Stop on an unclear limit

   If access pauses, save the product, model and exact message. Check the account’s current allowance instead of repeatedly retrying or assuming the older daily reset applies. No paid upgrade is needed to complete this practice exercise elsewhere.

Check the effective date of access and data rules

The policy pages posted October 13 are marked effective November 12, 2026, which is after this review. The posted terms describe one-person free access, limits on automated inference and possible identity checks. They should not be presented as evidence that an identity check happened in our account or as an already-effective rule verified here.

Read the terms and privacy notice applicable when you sign in, including model-specific data notices. This guide does not certify confidential-code suitability or unrestricted free API use. Start with a synthetic example and avoid connecting more data than the exercise needs.

When to choose Cline instead

Consider Cline when you want to choose a provider or local runtime for a coding agent. Our Cline guide explains how to inspect a currently free-labelled promotion before using it.

Cline’s free client does not include every model’s inference cost. Freebuff’s ad-funded access and Cline’s model-provider routes have different limits and data rules; compare the route you will actually use.