One hard turn shouldn’t cost you the session.
Your local model handles the everyday work. When a turn starts going in circles, Boost hands that single episode to a frontier model and gives control straight back, in the same editor you were already using.
How a Boost happens
Boost lives inside optiq serve, not in your
editor. Anything already pointed at your local server gets it.
Connect the machine
Sign in once. The token is written to your OptiQ config and never leaves the machine.
$ optiq cloud loginAsk for a Boost
Start any message with /boost. Clients that
swallow slash commands, Claude Code among them, can use
boost: instead.
/boost work out why this test fails on CI but not locallyCarry on locally
The moment the episode finishes, the next message goes back to your own model. A Boost is one episode, never a mode.
One Boost covers the whole exchange
A hard turn is rarely a single question. The cloud model reads files, runs commands and comes back several times before it answers, and all of that is one Boost.
| What happens | Cost to you |
|---|---|
| One question, one answer | 1 Boost |
| Six tool calls, then an answer | 1 Boost |
| A Boost that produced nothing | refunded |
| Every other turn in the session | free, local |
It works in the editor you already use
These are the integrations OptiQ tests against. Boost is implemented in the server, so anything else that speaks an OpenAI-compatible endpoint will work too, it is simply not something we verify.
Claude Code
Speaks the Anthropic API. Use boost: rather than
/boost, since it handles slash commands itself.
Codex
Works on both wire formats it can be configured with, Chat Completions and Responses, streaming or not.
OpenCode
Point it at optiq serve as usual and start a message with
/boost.
OpenClaw
Same endpoint, same trigger. Nothing to configure per project.
Hermes Agent
Boost applies to the model call, so it works inside whatever loop Hermes is running.
Mistral Vibe
Uses the OpenAI-compatible surface, so a Boost behaves exactly as it does everywhere else.
What it costs
You buy Boosts when you want them. There is nothing recurring to cancel, and nothing to pay on the days you do not use one.
20 Boosts
Enough to find out whether you reach for it. No card needed.
200 Boosts for $20
A one-off purchase, not a subscription. Turn on auto top-up if you would rather not think about it, with a monthly cap you set.
What leaves your machine
What leaves my machine?
The messages in the one episode you Boosted, and nothing else. Ordinary turns never reach the network. Your repository is not uploaded, indexed or scanned.
Is my code used for training?
No. Prompts and replies are not stored after the episode completes. What is kept is token counts and timings, so you can see what a Boost cost.
What if the cloud is unreachable?
The turn continues on your local model and the message says why. You are not charged for a Boost that did not happen.
Can I turn it off?
It is off until you sign in, and after that nothing is sent unless a
message asks for it. optiq cloud logout revokes the token
rather than just forgetting it.
Try it on the next turn that stalls
Twenty Boosts to start. One command to connect, and no plugin for whichever editor you already use.