🪄 Run Claude Code 100% Free Forever — 10 Free AI Providers, 5-Min Setup

[SRZ]

[FREE TOOL] Claude Code — Free Providers, Per-Model Routing, Voice Input

5-min setup. Anthropic’s $200/mo coding agent, fueled by free DeepSeek, Kimi & friends. 20K+ devs already on it.

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Tiny proxy → Claude Code thinks it’s calling Anthropic → actually hits free brains. $0 forever.

Repo: github.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code

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🧠 How it works — 30 sec

Normal: Claude Code → Anthropic servers → your card cries.
This: Claude Code → tiny proxy on your laptop → free AI (DeepSeek/Kimi/etc.) → answer comes back in Anthropic’s format → Claude Code never knows.

Phone re-router. Claude Code dials Anthropic, proxy intercepts: “forwarding to DeepSeek instead.” Caller never knows. Magic happens in the middle.

🍿 What you get

Loot	Plain-English
Drop-in replacement	Same Claude Code CLI / VS Code / JetBrains — no new app to learn
10 free brains	NVIDIA · Kimi · Wafer · OpenRouter · DeepSeek · LM Studio · llama.cpp · Ollama · OpenCode Zen · Z.ai
Per-model routing	Opus tasks → one model, Sonnet → another, Haiku → another
Voice-to-code	Talk to your code (Whisper / NVIDIA NIM)
Discord + Telegram bots	Run Claude Code from your phone via DM
Web admin UI	Pretty dashboard at 127.0.0.1:8082/admin — point + click
Tools / MCP / streaming	All preserved. Nothing breaks.

🎮 Setup — copy-paste edition

1. Install Claude Code:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

2. Install uv + Python 3.14:

macOS / Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv self update
uv python install 3.14

Windows PowerShell:

powershell ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
uv self update
uv python install 3.14

3. Install the proxy:

uv tool install --force git+https://github.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code.git

4. Start it:

fcc-server

→ terminal prints Admin UI: http://127.0.0.1:8082/admin — click it.

5. Drop in a free API key in the Admin UI (NVIDIA NIM = easiest, grab a key at build.nvidia.com/settings/api-keys) → Validate → Apply.

6. Run Claude Code via the proxy:

fcc-claude

fcc-claude = claude with the proxy wired in. Same commands. Zero re-learning.

🪪 Which free provider to pick

Provider	Best for	Why
NVIDIA NIM	First-timers	Free, fast, no card. Default pick.
DeepSeek	Coding	DeepSeek V3.1 ≈ Sonnet at code
Kimi (Moonshot)	Big codebases	Massive context window
OpenRouter	Variety	Browse free models list
Wafer	Backup	Anthropic-compatible, easy swap
Ollama / LM Studio / llama.cpp	Privacy	100% local. Code never leaves your box.

Set ALL of them → proxy falls back automatically. One dies → next picks up. No babysitting.

🛡️ Catch check

Q	A
Free forever?	While these providers keep free tiers — NVIDIA/DeepSeek/Kimi have been free 1+ year
Quality vs real Claude?	DeepSeek V3.1 ≈ Sonnet. Not Opus-tier. 95% of devs won’t notice.
Safe?	MIT licensed, 27.5k , 32 contributors, code auditable
Anthropic-banned?	No. You’re not even hitting Anthropic — they don’t know you exist.
Tools / agents / MCP?	All work. Vision, streaming, function calling — preserved.
Logs my prompts?	Locally only. Nothing phoned home.

💸 The math

Plan	Cost	What you get
Claude Code Max	$100–200/mo	Real Opus + Sonnet
Free Claude Code (this)	$0/mo	DeepSeek + Kimi + 8 others, ~95% as good
Anthropic free tier	Tiny	Wall in 30 min

Heavy user saves $1,000+/year.

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Simple-pimple: install proxy → grab free NVIDIA key → run fcc-claude instead of claude. Same workflow, $0 bill, Anthropic doesn’t know you exist.

Anthropic’s $200/mo plan, paid in zero dollars. Don’t tell them.

[GrimReaper]

if you are getting error in this command :
powershell ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c “irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex”
try this :
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c “irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex”

[adbenn91]

Always i don’t find the best word to describ you @SRZ but really you are

the best of the best

@SRZ

[adbenn91]

Guys I blocked here any help pls!!

[Humoussama]

Cant wait to try this at home.

[starslayer74]

Open another terminal and type in fcc-init

then after that completes, type in fcc-claude again.

that will bring you to the CLI

[beniyow]

Anybody tried running this on a remote machine? Care to add the steps for that?

[pintas_m]

This is cool! What should i vibe-code today?

[Yogisultan]

how to authenticate with deepseek? its api shows it will cost me.

[William_Kane_Lowell]

So, this is just a way to use other models inside Claude Code? Other models don’t give as good answers in coding as Claude. Not even Gemini. Is there a way to use Claude itself?

[concerned1]

Why am I facing this?

I vibecoded a site to use the nvidia nim api key with models and it works fine but this project ain’t working.

[Azero_702]

I’m getting this error:
npm : The term ‘npm’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  

[wasif_farooqui]

Download and install node js

[BooleanMonk]

Do we really use Claude or we are going to use some other AI which acts and works like Claude??Thanks

[AnonPs]

PK is not listed in Nvidia to verify phone number to get API . any alternate ?? tired alot of temp num but didnt worked

[Rishabh_Garg1]

able to set it up and make it running- but its too slow, not sure due to NVidia API key or what

[BCBC]

No kidding @SRZ is AMAZING. TY!!!

[agaramja_garamja]

Hey @SRZ is this really Claude or just like claude ?

[Prakash_Pokhrel]

no its not a real claude, i try it, nothing special.

[Vikas_Kumar]

@SRZ Can we use it in VS Code IDE on Mac ? How to export with API key in VS Code IDE ?

@all Any idea ?