Rename "FreeBuff" to "PaidBuff" — the name no longer matches the product

[bunnysayzz]

What problem are you trying to solve?

Now that the service has fully transitioned to a paid model, the "FreeBuff" name is misleading and no longer fits what the product actually is. I'd like to raise a request to change it to "PaidBuff."

Why

The name "FreeBuff" strongly implies a free tier, but we've now fully rolled out to paid.
With only 25 credits available, users can't even complete two DeepSeek sessions — it's no longer a "free" experience by any reasonable interpretation.
Keeping the old name creates confusion for both new and existing users about what they're getting.
Request

Rename FreeBuff → PaidBuff to accurately reflect the current paid model.

What would you like to happen?

Rename FreeBuff → PaidBuff to accurately reflect the current paid model.

Area

Agents / prompts

Contribution

• I would be willing to open a PR for this

[lelsliem]

PaidBuff w/ads more fitting

[MaxEdgar]

Lol, I knew someone was gonna make this comment the moment they added the FreeBucks thingy. Back to using Claude Code now, it’s more worth it icl They should bring back the old session based system instead of this buck-based one tbh

[mechoriet]

love this too

[Kaylenstr]

love this too

yeah fr, got this too

[elusuario73]

love this too
Same. In my case it's much worse, every time I go in to check if it's working... it uses up 5 credits.

[gondaliyashreyan1]

the audacity of codebuff-team to add a bot lol

[gondaliyashreyan1]

and also agreed, freebucks are bs

[alborzriazi]

Freebuff just introduced FreeBucks today, which was already concerning for me, because I found that I can run much fewer sessions, but by quickly checking the models available I found that I can switch to another model (GLM 5.3 flash) to have more or less the same amount of sessions per day.
first off, I found that at the end of each session, instead of FreeBuff starting a new session, my task got paused, which although is somewhat of a friction, but I can work around it. but after my second session I got this message:

⚠️ This account hit today’s hard usage cap. Freebucks pay for sessions, but the compute a day can draw is capped at three times what its Freebucks are worth, to protect the service from runaway usage. Anything already running keeps going. It resets in 13h 23m, at midnight Pacific. Get 3 more sessions a day from $8/mo. https://freebuff.com/plans

This really was super frustrating for me, AND in contradicts everything they're promoting even about the FreeBucks. these are some of the stuff they're promoting on the FreeBucks pop-up:

No more weekly or monthly session caps
The only thing that counts is what you spend. An hour of any model is one price, charged once when the session starts.
Spend it how you like
Every model shows its price per hour. Pick the cheap one all day, or save up for the expensive one.

So no more weekly or monthly session caps, but DAILY session caps after 2 sessions? Are you kidding me? How am i spending it how I like it, if I can't even spend it? I still have 20 of my 25 daily credits, and can't even use them!

[elusuario73]

Freebuff acaba de presentar FreeBucks hoy...

Another issue is that if a prompt costs 5 credits, a 10-second session costs the same as a one-hour session; so, if you run a test, it costs 5 credits every time.

The problem here is that it is now in Freebuff's interest to place stricter limits on the models; if the limits are too generous, no one will want to pay for the plans, leading to the same vicious cycle seen in similar systems—where limits must be tightened to generate more revenue.

I don't think Freebuff will last very long as a free option.

[shan-luan]

Do we have any alternatives?