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# Introducing Buildful Pass for open-weight models

By [Sandeep Panda](https://buildful.ai/authors/sandeep) 2 days ago 

Buildful Pass is $30 a month for $80 of usage on four open-weight models, on top of Pro or Team.

It's a coding agent subscription for the open source models you pick yourself. The four [open-weight models](https://buildful.ai/open-weight-models) it covers carry a Pass tag in the model picker. While the pass has allowance left, they run on it instead of your prepaid credit. Once it's spent, they use credit again.

- Add it from the Billing page. Plans paid in rupees can add it too, and the pass itself is billed in US dollars.
- The pass starts, renews and ends with your plan. Bought partway through a month, it charges a share of the $30 and grants the same share of the $80.
- Unused allowance doesn't roll over to the next month.
- Smart Mode tasks still come out of your plan's tasks, not the pass.

The [Buildful Pass post](https://buildful.ai/blog/buildful-pass) explains how the pass works and which models it covers. See [pricing](https://buildful.ai/pricing) for the plans it works with.

Also on October 25:

- Every task runs in a fresh sandbox, so the agent now installs your repo's dependencies before it starts work.
- The agent explains its work in simpler terms, so you can follow a pull request you didn't write.
- The second model that checks the work now remembers what it flagged in earlier passes and how the agent answered, so it stops raising issues that are already fixed.

- Billing
- Models

## About the author

### [Sandeep Panda](https://buildful.ai/authors/sandeep) 

Co-founder, Bug0 · Building Buildful

Sandeep is building Bug0, which tests web apps with AI, and leads its core infrastructure and technology. He previously co-founded Hashnode and scaled it to millions of developers as its CTO. He wrote AngularJS: Novice to Ninja, co-wrote Jump Start HTML5, and thinks mostly about agentic testing and the infrastructure that makes AI-written code safe to ship.

- [X](https://x.com/sandeepg33k)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep92/)

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