How to Run Claude Code Completely Free forever (2026) — Transcript
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- 0:00You can now run Claude code completely
- 0:01free forever. Someone on GitHub just
- 0:04built a free AI tool that tricks Claude
- 0:05code into thinking that it's talking to
- 0:07Claude, but it's actually using free AI
- 0:09models that are about 80 to 90% as good
- 0:11as Claude while costing absolutely
- 0:13nothing. Over 20,000 developers are
- 0:15already using this method and it takes
- 0:16literally 5 seconds to set up. First,
- 0:18you go to this GitHub repo and run these
- 0:20two commands set up your free Claude
- 0:22code terminal. Then just pick your AI
- 0:24provider. You can either grab a free key
- 0:26from Nvidia Nim or Open Router to get
- 0:27free access to top models like DeepSeek,
- 0:30Kimiko, and GLM. Or you can also run it
- 0:32locally through Ollama if you have a
- 0:33good GPU. I've recorded a full guide
- 0:35covering all three methods, so just
- 0:36comment Claude and I'll send it to you
- 0:38down below.
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