I’d recommend a code agent product I’ve been using recently: OpenClacky. I topped up $20 and have been using the DeepSeek V4 Flash model. So far, it’s been surprisingly cheap — I haven’t even used up $1 a day.
One issue I’ve run into though: when the agent is actively working in the terminal, if I try to enter a new task at the same time, the whole thing just freezes and stops responding for quite a while. So now I usually wait for the current task to finish before sending the next instruction.