RELAY

Relay Free

Open Relay, ask the agent something, and it answers. No API key, no account. Relay Free is a modest daily allowance included with Relay; when you want more, or want your prompts to go straight to a provider of your choice, add your own key and select your provider.

What you get

  • An allowance for agent work and background jobs: Main for the agent and its planning, Flash for terminal work and quick turns, Lite for titles, labels and routing. The model mapping is managed on the server and can change without a new Relay release; the app shows the current choices.
  • A daily token allowance that resets every day. The pane shows how much is left, and when it is used up the terminal keeps working; only the agent waits for the reset or for a key of your own.
  • No sign-up. Relay makes a keypair on first use, keeps the private half in your desktop keyring, and proves it holds the key to get a token that lasts an hour.

What leaves your machine

  • On Relay Free your agent prompts, the conversation and the results of the agent's tools (command output, file contents it reads) go to Relay's gateway at api.relay-terminal.ai and on to the provider serving that tier. Their privacy policy applies to what they receive.
  • The gateway processes the request and records usage for service operation. See the privacy information for current data-handling details.
  • Agent requests can include prompts, conversation history, and tool results. Shell commands you run and terminal output are not sent on their own.

Your key, whenever you want it

Options › Models › API keys… takes a key for GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Requests made on your own key go directly to that provider. Check the models selected for other jobs too: background tasks in a Claude Code or Codex guest pane can use Relay Free. Relay Free remains a separate provider choice.

Limits, plainly

The allowance is a resource quota, not a crippled product: the same models, the same streaming, the same tools. Limits are enforced on the server, so a modified Relay cannot raise them, and a global spending cap means Relay Free can be "temporarily unavailable" rather than surprising anyone with a bill. Heavy use is what your own key is for.