cto.new partners with ZeroClick to power free AI coding

Today we're excited to announce that ZeroClick has partnered with cto.new to power their free AI code agent. This partnership furthers our mission of expanding access to high-quality AI tools by enabling platform sustainability.

About cto.new

cto.new is an AI code agent that works with all the latest models and every popular developer tool. It is available for free, no credit card or API keys required.

Users of cto.new have used hundreds of billions of frontier LLM tokens to create hundreds of thousands of PRs, almost entirely for free.

Monetization without breaking trust

Technical users don't tolerate noisy ad experiences. If content feels spammy or promotional, trust collapses.

cto.new needed a way to support growth without compromising product quality. That's where ZeroClick came in.

"Relevant ads from ZeroClick help sustainably fund our free AI code agent. Some users even ask for more, because they see the link between useful ads and the free tokens we can offer." - Simon Spurrier, CEO of cto.new

With ZeroClick's reasoning-time ad platform, cto.new can serve relevant sponsored content to users when it matters most, without breaking developers' flow.

For example, if a user says "I want to add enterprise-grade auth to our B2B SaaS," ZeroClick can include a relevant implementation option alongside cto.new's response, and the team can evaluate immediately.

Better outcomes for everyone

Ads supporting a free experience creates a win-win-win for everyone:

Users can build their products for free with cto.new, as well as access relevant tooling recommendations in the exact moment they're evaluating solutions.

cto.new gets a sustainable monetization layer without putting up a hard paywall.

Advertisers reach technical decision-makers at the exact moment when decisions are being made.

And the more users join, the better the product becomes. It's a flywheel.

We believe users of AI deserve relevant, transparent, in-flow, and mutually aligned experiences. And this all happens while expanding who has access to best in class tools like cto.new.

cto.new × ZeroClick

If you want to use the best frontier models to build with AI in one interface, for free, check out cto.new. And if you're building an AI product and want monetization that preserves UX quality, check out ZeroClick.