🎁 Free Claude API, No Card — 39 Ready-to-Paste Doors (Beginner → Self-Host)

[SRZ]

Paste one line for free Claude — or self-host a rotating pool. 39 free doors, ready to paste.

Skip the “free Claude key” hunt — that’s the dead-end. The base_url is the real lock. Point Claude Code / Cline / Roo / Cursor at a free door and it just runs. Below is the whole kit — grab the line you need.

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Grab-and-paste — real Claude, no card

Drop one line into Claude Code (with that door’s own free key):

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.poe.com/v1          # Poe — 300 free Claude pts/day, no card
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://aihubmix.com            # AiHubMix — standing free test quota (native)
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh    # Vercel — $5 free every 30 days
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic  # z.ai — ~$3/mo + trial, GLM-4.6 ≈ Claude-tier
CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1                            # Google Vertex — $300 / 90 days (real Claude)
CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK=1                           # Amazon Bedrock — ~$200 new-account (real Claude)

No terminal? In Cline / Roo or SillyTavern pick “OpenAI Compatible,” paste any base_url + key — that box IS the trick.

That’s the starter kit. The full trove — rare · no-terminal · native Anthropic (no glue)

🎯 REAL Claude doors — free / trial credits

├─ Poe — 300 pts/day on real Claude, no card · api.poe.com/v1
├─ z.ai GLM plan — ~$3/mo + trial, native api.z.ai/api/anthropic (GLM-4.6 ≈ Claude-tier coding)
├─ Vercel AI Gateway — $5 free / 30 days, zero markup · ai-gateway.vercel.sh
├─ Amazon Bedrock — ~$200 new-account credits · CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK=1
├─ Google Vertex — $300 / 90 days · CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1
├─ copilot-api — a GitHub Copilot seat (free for students/OSS) → Claude endpoint · npx copilot-api start --claude-code
├─ claude-proxy — your own ChatGPT / Gemini sub drives Claude Code at $0/call
└─ CLIProxyAPI — OAuth-pool your own Claude/Codex/Gemini CLI seats into one auto-rotating Anthropic endpoint

🆓 Free open-model doors — Claude-tier (add the glue below for Claude-only tools)

├─ Puter.js — keyless, no signup: one <script> + puter.ai.chat(...)
├─ OpenRouter — one signup → free key; append :free to ids · openrouter.ai/api/v1
├─ GitHub Models — free, no card, any GitHub PAT · models.github.ai/inference
├─ Hugging Face Router — free HF token, ~1k req/day · router.huggingface.co/v1
├─ NVIDIA NIM — 1000–5000 never-expire credits, no card, 100+ models · integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1
├─ Chutes.ai — TAO-subsidized, some models genuinely $0, no card · llm.chutes.ai/v1
├─ ModelScope 魔搭 — Alibaba, ~2000 free calls/day · api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1
├─ g4f.dev hosted — nothing-to-run base_urls (g4f.space/api/groq …), key secret
├─ gpt4free — keyless local server (g4f api → :1337); uptime = coin-flip, fallback only
└─ DuckDuckGo→OpenAI — self-host; carries real claude-3-haiku over DDG’s free chat

🧩 The glue — one repo makes ANY door speak Anthropic /v1/messages

├─ claude-code-router — the 36k​ standard; ccr code runs Claude Code on any backend, per-task fallback
├─ y-router — zero-deploy: ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://cc.yovy.app + OpenRouter key (shared worker archived — deploy your own to depend on it)
├─ claude-code-proxy — clean Python shim: any OpenAI base_url → Anthropic /v1/messages
├─ anthropic-proxy-rs — fast Rust shim, full streaming + tool-calls + thinking blocks
├─ claude-adapter — interactive wizard, no config-editing, wraps any OpenAI provider
├─ OmniRoute — one install stacks 40+ free-forever tiers + a Claude Code fallback profile
└─ cerebras gateway — free Cerebras key = 1M tokens/day, no card, ~2000 tok/s in Claude Code

🔁 Never-dry kit — pool free keys, auto-rotate, even auto-farm credits

├─ LiteLLM — reference proxy; native /v1/messages, load-balance + fallbacks + 429 cooldown
├─ 9router — 40+ providers, 3-tier subscription→cheap→free fallback + token compression
├─ gpt-load — key-pool proxy that keeps native Anthropic passthrough
├─ uni-api — smartest failover: re-ranks keys by their real 72h success rate
├─ Bifrost — Go, native /anthropic drop-in, weighted rotation, ~50× faster than LiteLLM
├─ freellmapi — stacks 29 providers / ~4B tokens/mo behind one endpoint
├─ all-api-hub — browser extension that auto-farms daily free credits + health-checks keys
├─ metapi — folds all your relay accounts into one Claude-Messages key
├─ new-api · CRS · Sub2API — self-host CN relay panels + 拼车 seat-share (split one Claude Max seat, with billing/quota)
└─ AiHubMix — standing free testing quota on real Claude · native aihubmix.com

Two honest notes: free-tier amounts churn (Poe pts · Vercel $5 · Bedrock ~$200 · Vertex $300 · NVIDIA “never-expire”) — confirm at signup; and gpt4free/g4f uptime is a coin-flip (fallback, not foundation). Its all free tiers, trial credits, your own subs, and open endpoints.

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The key was never the lock. Own the base_url and Claude is just a setting.

[Get_Zero]

FYI: As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models has been fully retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer. GitHub Models was a separate service from GitHub Copilot and is unrelated to GitHub Copilot services. https://docs.github.com/en/github-models