# Freebuff (formerly Codebuff) shipped an update

> Source: <https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/freebuff>
> Published: 2026-09-23 08:20:32+00:00

# Freebuff (formerly Codebuff)

A free, ad-supported family of coding agents for the terminal, desktop, browser and GitHub, built on Codebuff.

## Sources and review

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Trying capable coding agents without a subscription or your own API keys.

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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 freebuff
```

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## Freebuff (formerly Codebuff) vs. the alternatives

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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freebuff (formerly Codebuff)this listing | 13k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Free | 
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