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1. 0:00Cloud Code is really expensive. Even on
2. 0:03my $200 a month plan, I'm still running
3. 0:06into rate limits. If you don't know me,
4. 0:07my name is Albert Olcott. I didn't go to
5. 0:10university, but still managed to build
6. 0:12two million-dollar companies only
7. 0:14because I know how to use AI. Now I'm
8. 0:16making AI education accessible for
9. 0:18absolutely everyone completely for free,
10. 0:20and I run one of the largest AI
11. 0:21communities in the world with 150,000
12. 0:24members all learning AI. What I'm about
13. 0:26to show you will save you a lot of
14. 0:27money. How can you use Cloud Code for
15. 0:29free? Well, Cloud Code is what's called
16. 0:31an agent harness, which means that Cloud
17. 0:33Code is really just a wrapper. The real
18. 0:35brain is the actual AI model. So when
19. 0:38you make a response, this goes to Cloud
20. 0:40Code that wraps it, and then it sends it
21. 0:42to the AI model. And if the AI model is
22. 0:44the brain, then the harness is kind of
23. 0:46like the body that can call your tools,
24. 0:49run loops, manage memory, handle errors,
25. 0:51and then it's also in the harness that
26. 0:52can actually read and write the files.
27. 0:54So the AI model, the brain, is what
28. 0:56controls, let's say, the arm, which is
29. 0:58what actually changes your code. When
30. 1:00you're paying for Cloud Code, you're not
31. 1:01paying for the wrapper. The only thing
32. 1:03that you're paying for is the actual
33. 1:05brain. It's the model, which means if we
34. 1:06connect to another model that's cheaper
35. 1:09or even free, we can actually use Cloud
36. 1:11Code completely for free. I've created
37. 1:13this folder that I called free Cloud
38. 1:14Code, and I'll leave a link to this
39. 1:16Google Drive right below this video.
40. 1:18Then let's open Visual Studio Code,
41. 1:20click open, and choose the folder that
42. 1:21we just downloaded from the drive, click
43. 1:23open, and click yes, I trust the
44. 1:25authors. And basically there's nothing
45. 1:26inside of this folder other than the
46. 1:28actual Cloud Code structures. You don't
47. 1:30need to change anything yourself.
48. 1:31Usually when you spin up Cloud Code and
49. 1:33you write Cloud, you'll be able to see
50. 1:34what model it's using. Right now it's
51. 1:36using Opus 4.6, and I'm on my Cloud Max
52. 1:39plan. So you can see the model and how
53. 1:41it charges you. If I write {slash}
54. 1:43model, the only models that I can choose
55. 1:45from is Haiku, Sonnet, and then Opus,
56. 1:48where Sonnet and Opus are both pretty
57. 1:50expensive models compared to what else
58. 1:52is on the market. So you're very capped
59. 1:53with just a regular Cloud Code
60. 1:55subscription. Instead, if I go back into
61. 1:57this folder and I write Cloud, you can
62. 1:59see we're using a different model. We're
63. 2:01using the new Google model, the Google
64. 2:03Gemma 4, which is an open-source model,
65. 2:05and you can see it says API usage
66. 2:07billing instead. I've basically managed
67. 2:09to change the model inside of Cloud Code
68. 2:11to any model that I want. Let me show
69. 2:13you how to do that. I just want to make
70. 2:14one thing clear. If I write {slash} log
71. 2:16out, it's going to log me out of Cloud
72. 2:18Code, and I then write Cloud again.
73. 2:20There's two real ways to get access to
74. 2:22Cloud Code. Either you need a Cloud
75. 2:23account subscription, or you can use the
76. 2:25API billing. If you really want to save
77. 2:27a lot of money, then you can get access
78. 2:29to Cloud Code by choosing the console,
79. 2:30adding $5, and you can run it completely
80. 2:32for free forever. The reason that we
81. 2:34downloaded this driver is because if I
82. 2:35click down on the {dot} Cloud folder,
83. 2:38and then hit inside of settings {dot}
84. 2:40local {dot}
85. 2:44right here that we have set, which is
86. 2:45not normal to do inside of Cloud Code.
87. 2:47And inside of here we have changed the
88. 2:49URL to make API requests, and we've also
89. 2:51added a different auth token. In order
90. 2:54to do this, you need to remove this
91. 2:55token that's already in here, and don't
92. 2:56worry, I've already rotated the API key.
93. 2:58Then you need to go inside of
94. 3:00OpenRouter, which is basically a site
95. 3:02where we have access to all the models
96. 3:03that exist. Go inside of settings, then
97. 3:06go to API keys, create a new API key
98. 3:08that we just call Cloud Code, copy this
99. 3:10API key, go back into this settings
100. 3:12{dot} local {dot} JSON file, and paste
101. 3:15this in as the entropy auth token. And
102. 3:18now we can change whatever model we want
103. 3:19to use. By default, it's going to have
104. 3:21the Gemma 4 model, which is a really
105. 3:23good new open-source model that Google
106. 3:25just dropped. So if I save this file and
107. 3:28click control save, every time you do
108. 3:30this, you need to restart Cloud Code, so
109. 3:31click control C, write clear, write
110. 3:34Cloud, and then I write, "Hi, can you
111. 3:37hear me?" It's now going to be using the
112. 3:39Google Gemma 4 model. Let's say that you
113. 3:41are on the $20 a month plan right now,
114. 3:43and you are running low on usage. For
115. 3:45easier tasks, you can just change the
116. 3:46model, and you can see the Gemma model
117. 3:48now says, "Yes, I can hear you. How can
118. 3:50I help you today?" That is this model
119. 3:51right here, which is extremely cheap. We
120. 3:53can also search for GPT 5.4, that is
121. 3:57Open AI's model, and all you do is that
122. 3:59you just copy the model name right here.
123. 4:01Then we go back into the settings {dot}
124. 4:02local {dot} JSON, and then we change all
125. 4:05of these models. Hit control S to save
126. 4:08it, and now we have to restart Cloud
127. 4:10Code. And now we can see it says GPT
128. 4:125.4. If I write, "Hi, can you hear me?"
129. 4:15it's now going to be using the GPT 5.4
130. 4:17model, and it says, "Yes." Now you know
131. 4:19how to change any model you want inside
132. 4:21of Cloud Code. But let me show you
133. 4:22something that is really, really cool,
134. 4:24cuz these models that I've shown right
135. 4:25now still does cost something. If you go
136. 4:27inside of OpenRouter, you click explore
137. 4:29models, it's going to show you all of
138. 4:30the models that are inside of here. If
139. 4:32you go to prompt pricing, and you just
140. 4:34set it to free, it's going to show you
141. 4:35all of the free models that are right
142. 4:37now inside of OpenRouter. For example,
143. 4:39this Qwen 3.6 Plus is one of the best
144. 4:42models out there right now, and you can
145. 4:43test if it is working by going to the
146. 4:45chat and writing, "Hi." See, it says,
147. 4:47"Hi there, how can I help you today?" So
148. 4:48this model is working. What I'll do is
149. 4:50that I'll go back, and then I'm going to
150. 4:52copy the model name, go back into our
151. 4:55settings {dot} local {dot} JSON, and
152. 4:56then change this model. [music] And you
153. 4:59can see now it's using the Qwen 3.6 Plus
154. 5:02free model, and you can see it says,
155. 5:03"Yes, I can hear you. How can I help?"
156. 5:05And I don't have to pay anything for
157. 5:06using this model. If we go inside of our
158. 5:08OpenRouter and inside of logs, we can
159. 5:10see how much each request actually cost
160. 5:13us. You can see the Gemma 4 model was
161. 5:15costing us a little bit, the GPT 5.4
162. 5:17models were costing us a little bit, but
163. 5:18this Qwen 3.6 Plus is completely free.
164. 5:22Is it as good as the paid models? No, of
165. 5:24course not. You always get what you pay
166. 5:25for, but this is a really good
167. 5:27alternative if you hit a rate limit and
168. 5:28now you need to use something else. But
169. 5:30what do you actually do with this
170. 5:32information? When you hit a rate limit
171. 5:33all the time, people on Twitter are
172. 5:35going crazy about hitting rate limits
173. 5:37all the time. just switch to a cheaper
174. 5:39model that is still going to perform
175. 5:40very, very well. Like if you hit a rate
176. 5:42limit on Cloud Code, you can switch to
177. 5:44something that is very cheap, like Gemma
178. 5:464, or something that is a little
179. 5:47cheaper, I think like 50% of the price,
180. 5:49like GPT 5.4. If you want to learn more
181. 5:52about Cloud Code and more about building
182. 5:53an AI agency in general, where you are
183. 5:55selling this as a service to businesses,
184. 5:57then you can check out our community,
185. 5:59The 1% in AI. Inside of here we have
186. 6:01every single thing that you need to
187. 6:02learn in order to start an AI agency,
188. 6:04and we are soon dropping a Cloud Code
189. 6:05masterclass, which is hours of content
190. 6:07specifically on Cloud Code. And the best
191. 6:09thing is that right now we are running
192. 6:11the 30-day challenge that gets you from
193. 6:13nothing to an AI agency in 30 days. And
194. 6:15the best thing is when you stay
195. 6:16consistent and you finish the 30-day
196. 6:18challenge, we actually get your first
197. 6:19month completely refunded, which means
198. 6:21if you are committed, you get to join
199. 6:23completely for free. If you want to
200. 6:25learn more about how that works, then
201. 6:26I'll leave a link right below this
202. 6:27video. Thank you guys so much for
203. 6:29watching. You two things that this video
204. 6:30is going to be interesting for you. As
205. 6:32always, have an awesome rest of your
206. 6:33day. Albert out.