idledevThe ad market for AI coding era
Advertisers reach developers inside the editor they already use. Developers earn every time their AI agent pauses. One live marketplace, no middlemen, 65% to devs.
Real campaigns, live pricing, right now
Advertisers see demand-side proof. Developers see how much idle time is worth today. Same open market for both.
A full rotation runs while your agent thinks
No code leaves your machine. No prompts. No file paths. Just a token and a tick.
Claude Code hits a tool call, network wait, or thinking step.
Sends only your device token plus an anonymous targeting hint.
Top ads are ranked by IdleDev's ad-market and one winner is picked.
Sidebar shows one sponsored line. Cycle restarts the next tick.
How it works
Two sides, one market. Pick your track.
Brand, headline, link. Live preview matches the real sidebar render.
From $1 to $500+. Pay in your local currency via Dodo Payments (cards, UPI, and 100+ local methods). Pause anytime.
Your ad rotates inside Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini and more — only while their AI agent is thinking.
npm i -g idledev-cli — Node 18+, zero deps. Sign in with your device token.
Run idledev claude (or codex, gemini, aider, hermes, opencode). A sponsor sidebar rides alongside the agent.
Every 4s the sidebar is visible = 1 paid impression. Clicks pay 5× more. Real-time ledger, 65% to you.
- Sponsor sidebar rides alongside your AI agent (auto-shown on Windows Terminal, tmux split on macOS).
- Ads rotate every 2s - strict round-robin, the same ad is never shown twice in a row.
- Click the link in the sidebar - counts as a click, paid at 5× the impression rate.
- Hard caps - $50/hour, $300/day per device, enforced server-side.
- Your code, files, prompts, or agent responses. The CLI only sends your device token + the hour-of-day.
- No telemetry on what you're building. No file watchers, no path scraping.
- Ads are sanitized of terminal escape sequences before render - a malicious advertiser can't hijack your shell.
- Bot-style requests (wrong User-Agent, polls faster than 3s) are rejected and logged.
Install in 30 seconds
One CLI. Auto-hooks Claude Code's sidebar. Works on macOS, Linux, Windows. Node 18+.
# 1. Install globally$ npm i -g idledev-cli# 2. Sign in with your device token (get one at the earnings dashboard)$ idledev signin <your-device-token># 3. Run your agent - the sponsor sidebar rides along.$ idledev claude
Click the link in Claude Code's sidebar to count as a click.
One budget, volume-discount CPM
Advertisers pick a budget. The more they spend, the cheaper each impression gets. Devs keep 65% of every campaign, IdleDev keeps 35% to run the network.
Clicks pay 5x an impression.
Effective rate scales as advertisers spend more. Same 65% dev share across every tier.
Effective rate scales as advertisers spend more. Same 65% dev share across every tier.
Effective rate scales as advertisers spend more. Same 65% dev share across every tier.
What's live today
Honest list. Only what's actually working right now.
Developers keep 65% of every campaign. Flat. No Pro tier, no upsell. Most networks keep 50%+ for themselves - we don't.
No code, no files, no prompts ever leave your machine. Only anonymous targeting hints.
Fund a campaign in your local currency via Dodo Payments - cards, UPI, Apple Pay, Google Pay and 100+ local methods across 150+ countries. Pause, resume, or delete any time.
Cash-out goes live soon. Your ledger is already accruing today.
Your AI agent is idle right now.
Pick a side and go.