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# You can now try Buildful without a card

By [Syed Fazle Rahman](https://buildful.ai/authors/fazle) Oct 6, 2026 

Buildful's first 3 tasks are free, with no card. Sign up, connect a GitHub repo and describe a task, and you get a tested pull request back: a change you review, then merge, the same as on the paid plans.

If you're looking for a free AI coding assistant to try on real code, here's what you get:

- The 3 tasks run on Smart Mode, like every task on Pro and Team. Smart Mode picks the right open-weight model for each task.
- It's 3 tasks in total, not 3 a month. After that, Pro is 1,000 tasks for $10 a month. See [pricing](https://buildful.ai/pricing) for every plan.
- If you're weighing a free coding agent against Claude Code, the [Claude Code comparison](https://buildful.ai/compare/claude-code) puts both side by side, including when to stay with Claude Code.

Also fixed: repo env vars with escaped dollar signs, like a bcrypt hash pasted as `\$2b\$10\$...`, now reach the sandbox with the same value your app reads from a local `.env` file.

- Billing

## About the author

### [Syed Fazle Rahman](https://buildful.ai/authors/fazle) 

Co-founder, Bug0 · Building Buildful

At Bug0, Fazle builds AI agents that test web apps end to end. He previously co-founded Hashnode and helped grow it into one of the web's largest developer communities. A front-end and UX engineer by training, he wrote Jump Start Bootstrap and Jump Start Foundation for SitePoint and has spent more than a decade building products for developers.

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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fazlerocks/)

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