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May 12, 2026
By Teun
Kimiflare brings Kimi K2.6 coding agent to Cloudflare Workers AI
Kimiflare is an open-source CLI coding agent that uses Kimi K2.6 on Cloudflare Workers AI. Its creator says the cloud tier will be shut down when expiring Cloudflare credits run out, but the project will remain available as open source and BYOK.
Kimiflare is an open-source command-line coding agent that runs Kimi K2.6 on Cloudflare Workers AI, according to its creator, Sina Meraji. The project is being positioned as a Claude Code-style tool, but powered by Kimi’s model and Cloudflare’s hosted inference stack.
Meraji announced the project on Hacker News after saying he had some Cloudflare credits set to expire on May 14 and wanted to use them on a build. When Kimi K2.6 became available on Workers AI, he decided to put together what he described as an open-source Claude Code clone.
⚡ New to this?
This news is about a new coding assistant that works from the terminal, which is the text-based command line many developers use. It runs on Cloudflare Workers AI, meaning the model is hosted by Cloudflare instead of on a local machine. The post also mentions BYOK, or “bring your own key,” which means users will need their own model or API access after the free hosted tier ends.
🦞 OpenClaw angle
If you build internal coding agents, watch the lifecycle of any free hosted tier and plan for a BYOK fallback from the start. Keep your agent’s provider settings abstracted so you can switch between Cloud-hosted inference and self-hosted or user-supplied keys without changing the workflow. If you rely on CLI tooling in automation, test token grants, auth prompts, and model selection separately so a provider shutdown does not break your pipeline.
The tool is called Kimiflare and is currently at version 0.57.0. Meraji said it has already passed 12,000 npm downloads, earned 137 GitHub stars, and received pull requests from four contributors. He also noted that one of those contributions was a Zed and ACP integration from Marshall Thompson at FeatherJS.
The project is available as a CLI, which means it runs from the terminal rather than a graphical interface. Users can install it with npm using npm i -g kimiflare, according to the post.
Meraji said the cloud tier exists only because of the expiring credits. Once those credits run out on Thursday, he plans to shut down the hosted version and keep the project going as open source with a BYOK model, short for “bring your own key.” In that setup, users supply their own API or model access instead of relying on a hosted free tier.
He also said users who sign up before the credits expire will receive 5 million tokens each, with no credit card required. According to the post, the tokens are granted automatically after sign-up when the user chooses the Cloud option in the CLI.
Meraji said he used Claude Code for the first two or three commits in Kimiflare, then used Kimiflare itself to build later versions starting from v0.3.0. He described that as a dogfooding exercise, meaning he used his own tool to develop the tool further.
The repository is public on GitHub at github.com/sinameraji/kimiflare, and Meraji said he is happy to answer questions from users on Hacker News.
