Someone just built a GitHub repo that lets you run Claude Code for free.

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Claude Codeseen in 193 videos →https://github.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code ↗

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The video provides immediate, high-value utility to developers by solving a specific pain point (cost and model limitations) with a clear, actionable solution.

Summary

The creator introduces an open-source GitHub repository that allows users to run Claude Code with various alternative AI models. He explains the technical workflow of using a proxy to reroute requests and provides a call to action for viewers to get the link.

Structure

1Hook about free Claude Code repo
2Explanation of the proxy workflow
3Demonstration of model flexibility
4Simple setup instructions
5Call to action for the link

Product placement

The video is a direct demonstration and tutorial for the 'Claude Code' open-source repository.

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What if you could use Claude Code with DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, OpenRouter, or even local models? This open-source repo makes it possible. #ClaudeCode #ClaudeAI #DeepSeek #Qwen #OpenRouter #OpenSourceAI #AITools #CodingAI #DeveloperTools #AIWorkflow #BuildWithAI #FutureOfAI #opensourceai

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Someone just built a GitHub repo that lets you run Claude Code for free 16000 stars CLAUDE CODE Normally Claude Code AI Claude Code -> Anthropic Claude Code — PROXY INTERCEPT FLOW Live request rerouting through a lightweight proxy to any model PROXY Lightweight Proxy intercepting inspect headers rewrite target forward request return response CLAUDE CODE Model Router config loaded resolve model auth headers token tracking response relay MODEL TARGET DeepSeek cloud - reasoning Kimi cloud - long context Qwen cloud - multilingual OpenRouter cloud - multi-model Local model your machine offline - private Claude code What You Get Drop-in for Claude Code's Anthropic API calls Drop-in for proxy for Claude Code via the OpenAI Responses API fcc-claude and fcc-codex launchers 17 provider backends Per-model routing for Claude Code Native Claude Code / model picker support Streaming, tool use, reasoning/thinking block Optional Discord or Telegram bot wrapper Optional Usage through the Claude Code VS Code extension Codex CLI and VS Code extension support Optional voice-note transcription Local Admin UI at /admin SETTINGS.JSON Use Claude Code for free "claudeCode.environmentVariables": [ { "name": "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL", "value": "http://localhost:8082" }, { "name": "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN", "value": "freecc" } ] Comment "Claude" and I'll send the link in your DMs

Transcript

Someone just built a GitHub repo that lets you run Claude Code for free, and it already has over 16,000 stars. Here's how it works. Normally, Claude Code sends requests directly to Anthropic's models. This tool places a lightweight proxy in between and reroutes those requests to a completely different model instead. That could be DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, OpenRouter, or even a local model running on your own machine. And here's the wild part: Claude Code doesn't really know the difference. You keep the same interface and workflow, but the model doing the actual work is completely different. You can even route different model types to different providers depending on the task. And setup is simple. Just a couple of environment variables and you're ready to go. Comment "Claude" and I'll send the link in your DMs.