Codebuff Launch Week, Day 3 — ⚡️ Lite mode
Run "codebuff --lite" to use Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking, the best bang-for-your-buck model!
Welcome back to Day 3 of our launch week!
Today, we have another exciting update for those interested in using credits efficiently: an overhauled codebuff --lite mode!
Compared to normal Codebuff, --lite mode is roughly:
1/5 the cost
4x the speed
Which is pretty amazing when you consider Flash is able to act like a full coding agent. It fluently uses all the tools we provide and is good for easy-to-medium coding tasks.
It seems like Flash is better at adhering to the exact format of tool calls than Gemini 2.5 Pro, which is a surprise! Google still has some bugs to work out there.
“Gemini Code”
Codebuff improves on other coding agents by selecting all the best models and using them in the most appropriate way.
We do this for you, so you don’t need to keep up with the endless releases from different labs, each one-upping each other.
These days, however, it seems we are choosing more and more Gemini models. One might say Codebuff is the “Claude Code of Gemini”, or Gemini Code!
We’ve got two more exciting releases planned for the rest of launch week.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!
Cheers,
James