cream, explained simply.
Plain answers about what cream is, how the money works, what stays private, and how it sits alongside the tools you already use.
What is cream, in one paragraph?
cream is an agentic coding environment, a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a terminal CLI, where developers plan, write, and refine code with an AI agent. It costs $14.99 a month, or you can build free with ads on. Either way you get a metered monthly usage budget, spent at real provider cost. You can use Moo'dle, cream's house lane over the top open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax), picked per task, or run your own locally installed Claude Code or Codex CLI under your own subscription. Ads are on by default, switch off in one click on the plan, and never appear inside your code, your command output, or the AI's output. cream meters only token counts and timestamps, never your code, prompts, or output.
What cream is
The money
The ads
Privacy & agents
We love the tools you build with.
cream is not here to beat Claude Code, Codex, or any of the brilliant tools developers rely on. We are here to make modern AI coding affordable for more people, and to play nicely with everything you already love.
Sound familiar?
“I want to try AI coding, but the tokens are expensive.”
Sign in and build free with ads on, on a metered monthly usage budget. When you want more room, the plan is $14.99 a month, and leaving ads on grows that budget further.
“I love Claude Code and don't want to switch.”
You don't. cream shells out to your locally installed Claude Code under your own subscription, same workflow, shared workspace. And when a task doesn't need frontier rates, hand it to Moo'dle, included in the plan.
“I need strong models without juggling five subscriptions.”
One $14.99 plan covers Moo'dle for the everyday work plus premium models on demand, all from the same monthly budget. Your own Claude Code or Codex plugs in alongside.
“I can’t have a tool reading my proprietary code.”
cream never reads your code. Its servers meter token counts and timestamps only, conversations stay local in an encrypted SQLCipher database keyed to your OS keychain, and model routing denies data collection.
The words we use, defined.
- Agentic coding
- A workflow where an AI agent plans, writes, and refines code across multiple steps, not just autocomplete, but doing the task.
- Moo'dle
- cream's house coding lane: the top open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax), picked per task and routed server-side. Included in the $14.99 plan and on the free tier.
- Moo'lah
- cream's in-app score, not money. A completed rewarded view accrues moo'lah to your balance, where it unlocks achievements in the app. It has no cash value and there is no payout.
- Rewarded video
- An opt-in video the developer chooses to play from the rewards drawer. Accrues moo'lah on a completed view. Never in your code, your command output, or the AI's answers.
- Usage budget
- Your month's pool of real-cost usage, metered as you go. Leaving ads on grows it, and on the plan a $4.99 top-up adds more.
- Token metering
- Counting how many tokens flow in and out, the privacy-safe way cream bills usage without reading your code.
- creamStudio
- cream's separate media app, Moo'sic for music, Moo'vies for video, Imoo'ges for images, sold as an add-on to the coding app.
- Focus mode
- cream with ads switched off, one click in Settings, zero ad chrome, just a calm coding tool.