Up to 4x faster. Local + Cloud. From €1/month.
AI-powered coding that works offline with Qwen 3 Coder 30B and connects to any cloud model. Optimized pipelines, less latency, more shipping.
The Problem
Modern AI coding tools are tethered to the cloud. Lose your connection and you lose your co-pilot. Every keystroke waits on a round-trip to a server hundreds of miles away.
Meanwhile, cloud-only workflows drain credits, add latency, and lock you into a single provider. Your productivity depends on someone else's uptime.
FastCode breaks that dependency. Run Qwen 3 Coder 30B on your own hardware for true offline autonomy, or connect to any cloud model when you want to. Either way, you get pipelines engineered for speed — not for vendor lock-in.
Features
Rebuilt pipelines, better indexing, and developer-focused tooling that stays out of your way.
Benchmarked across 10 runs. Faster completion, fewer API calls, lower costs. Up to 4x with UX gains.
Better context awareness means more relevant suggestions that actually understand your codebase.
More direct file operations with less back-and-forth. Edits apply cleanly the first time.
Track your AI-assisted productivity. See what's working and where your time goes.
Understand commit quality, spot patterns, and improve your development workflow over time.
Quality scoring with built-in security and compliance checks. Catch issues before they ship.
Get notified when long-running AI tasks finish. Switch context freely without losing track.
Reduced latency and efficient execution across every agent interaction. The engine, rebuilt.
Benchmarks
10 identical runs. Same task. Same model (Claude Opus). Same machine. Averaged.
Fully offline, zero API costs, your code stays on your machine
Demo video coming soon
Side-by-side speed comparison
The raw benchmark shows 2.7x faster than OpenCode and 6.2x fewer tokens than Claude Code. The remaining gains come from things benchmarks don’t capture: voice input, fast-apply edits, quick actions, improved UX for iterative workflows, and the OIDX context engine that reduces redundant file reads. In real daily use, the compounded improvement reaches the 4x range. We show the raw numbers because we believe in transparency.
How It Works
€1/month. Cancel anytime. No contracts, no commitments.
One command. Works on macOS, Linux, and WSL.
Activate your license and start shipping. Local or cloud — your choice.
Early Access Pricing
These prices are only available during the beta period. Once FastCode reaches v1.0, pricing will increase and lifetime access will no longer be available.
Best to try it out
Cancel anytime. No contracts.
Pay once, never again
Only during early access. Goes away at v1.0.
This option disappears when early access ends.
Secure payment via Stripe. All plans include the same features.
Beginner’s Guide
AI tools write code faster than you ever could. But they don’t replace understanding what you’re building or why. The best developers in 2026 use AI as a tool — not as a crutch.
The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy (ex-Tesla AI director) and it means describing what you want in plain language and letting AI generate the code. It’s now how millions of people build software.
But here’s the honest part: AI doesn’t understand your business, your users, or your architecture. It generates code based on patterns. If you don’t know what good code looks like, you won’t know when the AI gives you bad code. And it will, regularly.
The real skill isn’t prompting. It’s knowing enough about what you’re building to make good decisions — what technology to use, how to structure things, where the risks are. AI accelerates execution. You provide direction.
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Understand what HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, and databases are — even if you never write them by hand. If you can’t explain what a REST endpoint does, AI won’t save you from building the wrong thing.
Gemini CLI is free with a Google account. GitHub Copilot Free gives 2,000 completions/mo. Qwen runs locally for $0 forever. Don’t pay for anything until you know what you need.
Don’t blindly copy-paste. Read the code. Ask the AI to explain it. In weeks you’ll start recognizing patterns, catching bugs, and writing better prompts. This is how you actually learn.
At 80.9% SWE-bench, Claude (Anthropic) writes the cleanest code of any model. It’s $20/mo, but for anything serious — multi-file projects, refactoring, architecture — nothing else comes close right now.
Install Ollama and run Qwen 3 Coder 30B on your machine. Free, offline, private — your code never leaves your laptop. 69.6% SWE-bench, competitive with cloud models for daily tasks.
Decide your technology choices — database, framework, hosting — before prompting. AI is excellent at execution but terrible at architecture. The developer who knows what to build will always outperform the one who just prompts randomly.
The tools are cheap or free. The skill is knowing what to build.
AI coding will only get better and cheaper. But the developers who understand their code, their users, and their architecture will always have the edge — regardless of what tools they use.
Indie Transparency
FastCode is a solo project focused on speed and efficiency. No VC funding, no growth-at-all-costs playbook — just a developer building the tool they want to use.
It's already usable, but still evolving. New features ship regularly, rough edges get smoothed out, and real feedback drives what comes next.
If you find issues, open one on GitHub — feedback shapes the product.
Early access pricing won't last. Join now and lock in your rate — or grab lifetime access before it's gone.