The agentic coding CLI that thinks in pennies, not dollars.
An open-source coding agent that lives in your terminal — reads your repo, runs commands, asks before anything destructive. Powered by DeepSeek, so a typical session costs roughly 12× less than the alternatives.
One session. Three providers. Real numbers.
A typical Fred session uses ~100K input and 20K output tokens. Here's what that costs at each provider's published per-token rate.
Rates: Fred $0.350 / $0.700 · Claude Sonnet $3.00 / $15.00 · GPT-4o $2.50 / $10.00 per 1M tokens (input / output).
Everything you'd build, just for the terminal.
Reads your repo
View, str_replace, glob, grep — Fred treats your codebase like a working surface. Permission gating per call so you stay in control.
Runs commands
Bash with sane defaults: 30s timeout, captured stdout/stderr inline, ask-permission gate before anything destructive (or --yolo when you mean it).
Open source
The CLI is MIT-licensed. Run it directly against DeepSeek with your own key, or sign up here for managed billing and the streaming proxy.
Ready to ship at the cost of a coffee?
Sign up, run fred login, and your first session starts on the house.