Free models for Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI. Talks to the Anthropic API by default; recent versions allow a custom Anthropic-compatible base URL.

Anthropic EPapi_key

2 compatibility record(s)

Model	Provider	Auth	Free limit	Setup	Compat	Verified
DeepSeek V3 (Chat) OSSC4	DeepSeek	API key	20 requests/minute	easy	✓ free · custom EP	Unverified3d ago
Gemini 2.0 Flash C4V	Google AI (Gemini)	API key	1,500 req/day · 1,500 requests/day	easy	✓ free · custom EP	Unverified3d ago

Known limitations

• DeepSeek V3 (Chat) (DeepSeek): Requires custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL shim; not officially supported.

• Gemini 2.0 Flash (Google AI (Gemini)): Via third-party Anthropic-compatible proxy; unverified.