musistudio/claude-code-router

Hello, about Claude Code where only Anthoripic models are supported, in reality you can use Claude Code router ( https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router ) to use other models in Claude Code. I use it since some weeks with opensource models and it works pretty well. You can even use "free" models from openrouter

Ask and you shall receive! https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude tldr "env": { "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "your_zai_api_key", "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic" } Although if you want an Actually Good Experience I recommend using Claude Code Router https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router because it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models. (e.g. GLM doesn't seem to support search or images, so I use Gemini's free tier for that.) (CCR just launches Claude with the base url set to a local proxy. The more adventurous reader can also set up his own proxy... :)

Claude Code Router or ccr can connect to OpenRouter. When your quota runs out, it’s a much better speed vs quality vs cost tradeoff compared to running Qwen3 locally - https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

makes sense. You could look at something like https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router if at some point you're interested in going down that path. I've been using gpt-oss-20b which would fit on your GPU and I've found useful for basic tasks like recipe creation and agentic tool usage (I use it with Notion MCP tools)

> Currently Claude Code is the best, but I don't think Anthropic would pivot it into what I described. They don't have to pivot, since it already exists: Claude Code Router [1]. [1]: https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router Anthropic's API is not your only choice for a Claude Code workflow.

Have you tried Claude Code Router with GLM 4.6? https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

you can use any model with Claude code thanks to https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router but in my testing other models do not work well, looks like prompts are either very optimized for Claude, or other models are just not great yet with such agentic environment I was especially disappointed with grok code. it is very fast as advertised but in generating spaces and new lines in function calling until it hits max tokens. I wonder if that isn't why it gets so much tokens on openrouter. gpt-5 just wasn't using the tools very well I didn't tested glm yet, but with current anthropic subscription value, alternative would need to be very cheap if you consider daily use edit: I notice…