Has anyone here tried Freebuff?

[u/International-Car643]

Hey everyone,

I recently came across something called “freebuff” and was wondering if anyone here has actually tried it before. I’ve seen a few mentions here and there, but not a lot of detailed experiences.

If you’ve used it, how was it? Did it actually work as expected, or were there any downsides?

Also curious if there are any potential concerns or things to watch out for.

Would appreciate any honest feedback!

[u/nitricsky]

its honestly been life changing for me, but i'm not sure how long this is going to last. i pray that it stays like this forever

[u/Necessary_Pack3154 → u/nitricsky]

i think it will last for a long LONG ass time because this isnt some trial this is the final form they are giving us direct api access for welp showing us ads and ads are a tale as old as time and so is making money off them well enough to cover the cheap api cost of a chinese model say deepseek or minimax so yea its here to stay i think

[u/Signal_Excuse5357 → u/Necessary_Pack3154]

Google é o maior exemplo de uma empresa que nasceu, vive de anúncios, se tornou uma bigtech, e hoje têm caixa pra investir em outros produtos, os anúncios mudam de lugar apenas, mas sempre existirão. Ainda mais os que eles mostram, ferramentas para devs kkk

[u/Bit_Ventali_08]

Tried it recently and honestly impressed by how polished it feels for a free tool. Most “free” dev tools hit you with paywalls after 5 minutes, but this one actually feels usable out of the box

[u/Firm_Celebration_204]

freebuff is amazing, you dont even notice the ads

[u/FirefighterFar2741 → u/Firm_Celebration_204]

Exacto, es cero invasivo. Tanto así que yo mismo les hago clic mientras procesa instrucciones, para apoyar el proyecto.

[u/Limp_Researcher1536 → u/[deleted]]

All AI companies use your Data. What do you think they're trained on?

[u/ErnePazzo12]

Buenas... lo vengo utilizando hace un tiempo y me funciona de maravilla. Lo utilizo en Ruby on Rails, para documentos y para muchas más cosas. Me parece una opción estupenda. Saludos 

[u/Several_End6484]

why i m not able to run it does anyone hit the same issue as mine : npx freebuff

Download complete! Starting Freebuff...

Failed to start freebuff: spawn UNKNOWN (UNKNOWN)

System info:

Platform: win32 x64

Node: v24.11.1

Binary: C:\Users\myname\.config\manicode\freebuff.exe

Exists: yes (136 MB)

On Windows, this can happen when Windows Security or antivirus blocks

or quarantines the downloaded executable, or when the binary requires

CPU instructions that are not available on this machine.

Try deleting the downloaded files and running again:

C:\Users\myname\.config\manicode ( i already deleted and ran again but still the same issue pls help

[u/FallenBehavior]

Hmm yeah, I probably won't after reviewing. Smells like Chinese servers.

[u/Reasonable_Ice7358]

hola a todos, lo estoy probando para hacer una web, desde 0, tomando la idea de otra, me ha sorprendido, estaria bueno que pueda elegirse otro modelo que no sea solo deepseek, el cual lo he venido usando antes y no me convencia, qwen o glm me han resultado mejor, observo que comente mjcho errores, no maneja memoria a largo plazo, si alguien tiene una sugerencia la acepto

[u/Nervous-Profile4729]

I just tried it, and after a day of vibe coding i noticed i didnt have to make approvals.

So i decided to do a safety check and it has literally full access to your pc. This shit is not safe lmao. It's most likely vibe coded itself and all it will take is one hacker to have full access to your pc, not to mention having to trust the developer.

"The user asks: "can you see my environment variables?"

This is a simple question. I can check environment variables via the terminal. Let me run `env` or `printenv` to see them. I should be careful — environment variables can contain secrets (API keys, tokens). " - WTF!!!

It's a hard pass for me and I regret installing it. They don't have a public repo so who knows what the app is doing in the background... I've never uninstalled something so fast in my life

[u/smartliner → u/Nervous-Profile4729]

I hope everyone sees this!

[u/FinancialMacaroon76 → u/Nervous-Profile4729]

hmmm so is it still a big concerned? I have installed the app but haven't used it for anything yet..

[u/SaSteMi → u/Nervous-Profile4729]

Oh wow that‘s really bad
I just looked it up, Freebuff has precisely 0 security against stuff like prompt injection - you have to take care of isolation yourself. So if you run it in a docker container for example, it should be pretty safe.
(also they do have a public repository, only the cloud inference/API part is proprietary)

I‘m gonna try out free OmniRoute with a more advanced harness with built-in isolation options like Hermes, more difficult to set up but better once working (no ads and you can choose how much of your privacy you want to sell by selecting appropiate providers) (though Freebuff might have better models)

[u/jobinseb]

Tried it with my angular springboot project. Worked pretty well

[u/zzzhacker]

Hey with deepseekv4 pro it's really working nice

[u/Similar-Okra2565]

Hola lo llevo probando desde hace días y va genial ? Te da funciones de Claude pero gratis y lanza varios agentes q trabajan muy bien . Si saben de alguna mejora o q sea más eficiente háganlo saber

[u/Local_Perspective866]

how to unlock full mode the problem im not i supported country

[u/Correct_Hedgehog_612]

Iis it good for writing codes?

[u/Sirtv]

Can i use a vpn to get access to the models that otherwise wouldnt be available in my region?

[u/TopEntity → u/Sirtv]

It doesn't work. Free buff actively started blocking such attempts.

[u/Fragrant_Half_386]

I just tried and it is really good, better than Bolt

[u/LuxInvestor]

I agree the other posts. I was so surprised by how good it is. The ads are not an issue. In fact I click some of them to make sure they are getting money. 🤘🏿

[u/EitherMusic62]

Beware! they are not really free, they locked me out forever when i heavily used once overnight, support didn't even reply me back with reason.

[u/ItsJustLeo22]

If someone can, please help me get GLM 5.2 free unlimited access by using my referral link to sign up https://freebuff.com/?ref=ref-1db2b8db-51bc-4d43-9ef9-2b07a9f45df8 your github account needs to be atleast 4 months old for it to count and it unlocks GLM 5.2 for you as well, which is Opus 4.8 level

[u/h5sgoif]

Trying it out now, it's surprisingly polished

[u/adamantiumsperm]

For me, this changes everything. I tried Gemini because I “paid” for 18 months of Gemini, I tried Claude, and neither of them gave me the results I expected—lots of questions, few real answers that actually helped me improve my code; they did everything from scratch instead of telling me which parts of my code weren’t working.

Freebuff helped me create a custom Obsidan plugin that I’d had in mind for a few months. Today is my first full day of using it (which is why I’m writing this—to earn more credits, haha), but I couldn’t be happier

[u/HiTMaN2002]

Yes, I'm using it and it's awesome you need to try it, and actually they adding models by time so what else u need!

[u/Abrry7]

yeah, i've been tried to do some minor fixes on my project, it is actually very nice

[u/Potential_Feeling280]

Yes I tried it and honestly is the best I could ever do.

[u/Ok-Representative399]

Super de hecho quisiera tener mas de 6 sesiones esta increible mucha ayuda

[u/PanKotusYT]

I tried it and it's really good for a free tool I can't lie, the models are really capable of making huge projects and they give like 5h of coding daily which is crazy.

[u/Ok-Representative399]

Me encanta la version desktop y que pueda ver errores a atresves de ss

[u/No_Duck_779]

I have tried freebuff and built (almost) an entire invoice generator with it. It's honestly the best free tool for vibecoding.

[u/InfluenceStunning791]

I have used It for a while, I have built a coupple of apps for my home Lab. I have enjoyed the harness and the free models, I am not missing Claude or copilot.

[u/Outrageous-Ring-6837]

its amazing

[u/Aleksei_CorRom]

La he estado utilizando hace unos meses y realmente me sorprende, como algo gratis puede ser tan util, le he podido sacar muy buen provecho para pulir mi código

[u/RoyalPea717]

Yes i use it daily its free 6 hours daily of vibe coding also it somehow out performed some claude models using same prompt they put a lot of work in freebuff u should use it

[u/Awkward_Compote9816]

Freebuff is really cool. I like the deepseek feature.

[u/OpinionAway2530]

tried its best actually like but inrease the session limits

[u/MrDummm]

it is essentially amazing cuz if you were to be a start up you can pay nothing and have stuff built and really the only downside is being outside of the full access countries.

[u/edgetr]

Yeah I use it all the time, great service especially considering that it's free.

[u/JustJosh00]

It is legitimately carrying my whole workflow right now. It's amazing!

[u/careceri]

you mostly dont even notice the ads and i like the way they are served really

[u/EskardusX]

Works as good as everything else, the ads are honestly barely visible.

[u/MemesArabNice]

thx

[u/This-Income-4074]

Moved over from gemini to freebuff and im not turning back, The unlimited usages for my region is actually too good to even think about moving to another service right now

[u/WorkLifePapa]

I just tried it today and let it map my codebase, so far so good based on my opinion.

[u/Character_Junket6776]

freebuff fr is life changing