01 · Developers using Cline, Roo Code, Continue or Aider
Backend for your AI coding assistant
Editor assistants burn tokens: every edit ships thousands of tokens of context. On a paid API that's the biggest line on the bill; on a single free provider you hit its rate limit by mid-morning.
How it runs here
Point the editor at the endpoint with model "auto". Each request goes to the best free coding model available right now; when one rate-limits, the next answers. No plugin, no adapter.
A month at this volume
Assumes 200 requests/day · 4,000 tokens in · 800 out → 24.0M in, 4.8M out, 6,000 calls.
200 calls/day fits the Lifetime quota (10,000/day). List prices as of 2026-09; check the vendor.
# Continue · ~/.continue/config.json
{
"models": [{
"title": "ZeroLimitAI",
"provider": "openai",
"model": "auto",
"apiBase": "https://www.zerolimitai.com/api/v1",
"apiKey": "zlai_your_key"
}]
}