Free to start · No hard cutoffs · No credit card
The free Orchids alternative
Orchids — ai full-stack engineer in the browser. It runs From $25/mo, about $300/yr per seat. Unchained Code does the same job for $0.
Orchids
$300/yr
- Seat fee & usage meters
- Message / session caps
- Cooldowns after heavy use
Unchained Code
$0/yr
- Unlimited chat, no card
- No hard cutoffs, no cooldowns
- 10 free credits a day
Why people switch from Orchids
Build and ship without tokens, credits or a monthly fee.
Unchained runs on open, OpenAI-compatible models (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax) that cost roughly 10× less per token than frontier models. That gap is passed straight to you: the free tier is the product: free to start, no lockouts.