Open-Source Proxy Routes Claude Code to 61 Free Providers, Reaches 58K Stars

An open-source project that intercepts Claude Code API calls and reroutes them to 61 free or low-cost providers has reached 58,200 GitHub stars, offering developers a way to run advanced AI-powered coding tools without paying Anthropic's subscription fees. The project, called Free Claude Code, supports 1.3 billion free tokens monthly by aggregating access to providers including NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Kimi, and local inference engines like Ollama. Installation takes approximately five minutes and requires only Python and the project's command-line tool; users then configure their preferred backend providers and substitute a single environment variable to redirect Claude Code's requests through the proxy.