CodeBuddy (Tencent Cloud, international edition)
- Free allowance
- Free: USD 0, 100 credits a month, a limited-time daily active reward of 30 credits a day, 250 welcome credits on sign-up, 5,000 code completions a month (unlimited during the promotion), auto model routing (all models during the promotion), 3 automated tasks
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateFree: 100 credits a month plus a limited-time 30 credits a day; Pro: 1,000 base and 1,000 bonus credits a month plus a limited-time 50 credits a day at USD 10 a month; Free: 5,000 code completions a month, unlimited during the...
- Evidence
- documented29 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Free: USD 0, 100 credits a month, a limited-time daily active reward of 30 credits a day, 250 welcome credits on sign-up, 5,000 code completions a month (unlimited during the promotion), auto model routing (all models during the promotion), 3 automated tasks unit credits; metered on request-count; the credit cost of a request is not published; credits vary by model tier, task complexity and context length, so request-count is the nearest metered_on term. Pro is USD 10 a month or USD 96 a year (USD 8 a month) with 1,000 base and 1,000 bonus credits a month and a limited-time 50 credits a day; the pricing page offers the first month at USD 7. Base and bonus credits are valid for the current month and do not carry over. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | request-rate the monthly and daily credit counts are the only published allowance, and the credit cost of a request is unpublished, so the number of agent requests they buy is unknown; a 7-day Pro trial also exists and, once activated, ends the separate issue of the Free plan's credits |
| Identity | email registration selects a region and signs up with Google or GitHub authorization; Google, GitHub and email login are supported; no card is named for the Free plan |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Interface | cli CodeBuddy IDE on Windows and macOS and CodeBuddy Code CLI (codebuddy or cbc). The CLI runs headless with -p/--print, prints text, json or stream-json, and needs -y for operations that require authorization; a lighter headless build supports --print, --serve and --acp. An individual authenticates with CODEBUDDY_API_KEY from codebuddy.ai/profile/keys |
| Tooling | CodeBuddy IDE and the CodeBuddy Code CLI; a China edition runs the same CLI with CODEBUDDY_INTERNET_ENVIRONMENT=internal |
| Composes with | CODEBUDDY_API_KEY with CODEBUDDY_BASE_URL points the CLI at a third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoint such as OpenRouter, so the agent outlives the monthly credits on another provider's key |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The China edition (codebuddy.cn) is priced separately: 体验版 free with 500 base points a month, 标准版 CNY 99 a month (CNY 70 on a continuous monthly plan) with 2,000 base and a limited-time 2,000 bonus points; its sign-up was not read. The Free plan's model list is auto routing, opened to all models only during the promotion. |
| Evidence note | documented the plan table, the credit counts, the headless flags, the API-key route and the sign-up methods are quoted from first-party pages read. Whether a Free account can mint a CODEBUDDY_API_KEY, the credit cost of a request and the built-in model list of the international edition sit behind a sign-up and are unverified. |
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Evidence 29
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free at USD 0 and Pro at USD 10 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Pro is USD 96 a year |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free has 100 base credits a month and Pro 1,000 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Pro adds 1,000 bonus credits a month |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | a limited-time 30 credits a day on Free and 50 on Pro |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free has 5,000 completions a month, unlimited during the promotion |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free routes models automatically, with all models during the promotion |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free has 3 automated tasks, 99 during the promotion |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/pricing | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/pricing | the first Pro month is discounted, then USD 10 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/workbuddy/credits | monthly credits do not carry over |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Getting-Started/Installation | registration picks a region and uses Google or GitHub |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Getting-Started/Installation | email login is supported |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Getting-Started/Installation | the IDE runs on Windows and macOS |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/headless | the CLI runs headless with -p |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/headless | headless runs need -y for operations that require authorization |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/release-notes/v2.52.0 | a lighter headless build exists |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/iam | an individual authenticates with an API key |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/iam | the international edition issues keys at codebuddy.ai/profile/keys |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/iam | the CLI can run on a third-party model service |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/env-vars | non-interactive mode always uses the API key |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/cli/release-notes/v2.103.0 | DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash are built-in models of the CLI |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.cn/docs/ide/Account/pricing | the China edition is free or CNY 99, 199 or 999 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | www.codebuddy.cn/docs/ide/Account/pricing | the China edition's free tier has 500 base points a month |
| 2026-11-03 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/credits | a 7-day Pro trial exists, and activating it or Pro stops the separate issue of the Free plan's 100 credits |
| 2026-11-03 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/credits | credits are spent by model with no per-request figure published |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/81035 | the international edition supports mainstream models outside mainland China, with no roster |
| 2026-11-03 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free gets auto routing, and all models only during the promotion |
| 2026-11-03 | www.codebuddy.ai/docs/ide/Account/pricing | Free has 100 base credits a month and Pro 1,000 |
Unknown values 3
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer