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Codebuff's team estimates that 500 credits (their new-account grant) covers 'a few hours of coding on a new project.' At 1¢/credit, that's roughly $5 for a full day of moderate usage on the free tier — heavier users typically move to the $100/mo Strong plan.
Yes. Codebuff routes across the current Claude, GPT, and Gemini families, and you can select the model per task or per project.
Both are terminal-native coding agents. Codebuff adds a persistent repo-scale context map and a credit-based usage model, while Aider is fully open source with a simpler pay-per-token-passthrough model.
Codebuff commits accepted changes cleanly to Git and permission-gates shell subprocesses. That said, you should still review diffs before merging, especially for schema migrations and deploy scripts.
Yes. Codebuff runs locally and only sends the code chunks the agent needs to reason about to the model provider. Enterprise plans add stricter data controls.
Manicode was Codebuff's original name — the product rebranded in 2025 as part of its YC growth phase. Existing Manicode users were migrated to Codebuff automatically.
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