AI coding without expensive hardware

AI coding can get expensive pretty quickly.

Not just because of subscriptions or API usage. Running models locally can also require hardware that most people don't already have.

That is one reason cloud-based AI coding agents are interesting.

Instead of running the model on your own machine, the model runs remotely. Your computer mainly handles the terminal and project files while the heavy AI workload happens in the cloud.

With a coding agent, that can include reading a codebase, editing files, running commands, testing changes and fixing errors without requiring a local GPU.

That's how we built Clixad.

Clixad is a cloud-based AI coding agent for the terminal. Users don't need to provide an API key or install a local model, and there is no mandatory monthly subscription.

The service uses free credits, with additional credits available through advertiser-funded offers, forms and surveys.

We also made the five cheapest models free within their daily limits, including GPT-5 Nano, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Kimi K2.

This makes cloud AI coding particularly useful for people working on side projects, students, beginners and developers who don't have a high-end machine or don't use AI coding heavily enough to justify expensive infrastructure.

You don't necessarily need a powerful computer to use an AI coding agent. The main requirement can simply be a terminal and an internet connection.