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In this video I walk you through two different ways to run Claude Code completely free. The first method uses Ollama to run open source models locally on your own machine, and the second uses Open Router to access free models in the cloud.
I cover everything from downloading and configuring models to the tradeoffs between local and cloud, and when you’d actually want to use open source models over something like Opus.
“ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL”: “https://openrouter.ai/api”,
“ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN”: “YOUR OPEN ROUTER API KEY”,
“ANTHROPIC_API_KEY”: “”,
“ANTHROPIC_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”,
“ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”,
“ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”,
“ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”,
“ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”,
“CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL”: “openrouter/free”
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:39 Open Source vs Closed Source Models
5:05 Method 1: Local Models with Ollama
8:45 Launching Claude Code with Ollama
16:16 When to Use Open Source Models
17:20 Method 2: Open Router
23:00 Open Source Limitations
24:55 Final Thoughts
