July 17, 2025 - How to Make Claude Code Use Other Models · r/programming • · comment · The stupidest thing about Claude Code is probably this... r/ClaudeAI • · upvotes · · comments · Claude Code is Too Great · r/ClaudeAI • · upvotes · · comments · Made a tool to run Claude Code with other models (including free ones) r/ClaudeAI • ·

July 28, 2025 - However, the significant pain point of Claude Code is that it can only call Anthropic’s own Claude model. Even if users attempt to modify the base URL and connect to other AI model services, they will only be able to use the Claude model.

June 27, 2025 - But there is a workaround—just set up an apiKeyHelper. First, add the following to ~/.claude/settings.json (create the file if it doesn’t exist): ... Replace the parameters with your target provider and model.

Use Anthropic clients (like Claude Code) with Gemini, OpenAI, or direct Anthropic backends. 🤝 · A proxy server that lets you use Anthropic clients with Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic models themselves (a transparent proxy of sorts), all via LiteLLM.

May 6, 2025 - Drop me a line (see profile) if you're interested in beta testing it when it's out · Currently Claude Code is a big value-add for Claude. Google has nothing equivalent; aider requires far more manual work

August 5, 2025 - Claude Code now believes it is talking to Anthropic yet routes to your open model because TGI mirrors the OpenAI schema. Test: ... Streaming works—TGI returns token streams under /v1/chat/completions just like the real OpenAI API. (Hugging Face) HF Inference Endpoints auto-scales, so watch credit burn. (Hugging Face) If you need local control, run TGI in Docker with docker run --name tgi -p 8080:80 ...

November 24, 2025 - Enterprise users can run Claude Code using models in existing Amazon Bedrock or Google Cloud Vertex AI instances. Claude Code works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. See full system requirements.

# Start with Opus claude --model opus # Switch to Sonnet during session /model sonnet Example settings file: ... The behavior of default depends on your account type. For certain Max users, Claude Code will automatically fall back to Sonnet if you hit a usage threshold with Opus.

March 5, 2025 - After onboarding, click the search icon (or hit Command-Shift-M) and install an appropriate model (I started with "Qwen2.5 Coder 14B", as it can fit comfortably in 48GB) Once downloaded, click the "My Models" icon in the sidebar (Command-3), then click the settings gear button and set the context length to 8192 (this is Anon Kode's default token limit and it currently doesn't seem to respect other values, so increasing the token limit in LM Studio to match is the easiest workaround)

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September 29, 2025 - Claude is also exceptionally good ... like that. It's honestly kind of incredible. Think about it: Cursor built a general-purpose agent that supports multiple models....

We’ve developed Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a different philosophy from other reasoning models on the market. Just as humans use a single brain for both quick responses and deep reflection, we believe reasoning should be an integrated capability of frontier models rather than a separate model entirely.

September 29, 2025 - Claude writes Python scripts to create Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and Word documents, ensuring consistent formatting and complex functionality that would be difficult to achieve any other way. In our email agent, we might want to allow users to create rules for inbound emails. To achieve this, we could write code to run on that event: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides standardized integrations to external services, handling authentication and API calls automatically.

Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool.

Enterprise users can run Claude Code using models in existing Amazon Bedrock or Google Cloud Vertex AI instances. Claude Code works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. See full system requirements.

It offers the best balance of intelligence, speed, and cost for most use cases, with exceptional performance in coding and agentic tasks. All current Claude models support text and image input, text output, multilingual capabilities, and vision.

Navigate any codebase: Ask anything about your team’s codebase, and get a thoughtful answer back. Claude Code maintains awareness of your entire project structure, can find up-to-date information from the web, and with MCP can pull from external data sources like Google Drive, Figma, and Slack.

Model access: Max plan subscribers can use Sonnet or Opus 4.5 on Claude Code (switch between them using the /model command). Best for: Everyday use with larger codebases, or power users.

October 29, 2025 - This repository includes several Claude Code plugins that extend functionality with custom commands and agents.