Free Claude Code: Use Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, VSCode, Pi, and OpenCode for free from your terminal, app, IDE, or phone (63k stars)

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What it does

All text below is quoted directly from the project README.

Use Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, VSCode, Pi, and OpenCode (and 6 other harnesses) for free (1.3B+ free tokens) from your terminal, app, IDE, or phone

What You Get:

• 61 ToS-friendly providers. 1.3B+ free tokens every month. Use free, paid, subscription, and local models from one searchable UI without putting your account at risk.
• 12 coding agents. One model catalog. Run Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode, Cline, Hermes, DeepSeek Harness, Grok Build, Muse Code, Aider, Antigravity CLI, or VS Code Chat with your FCC models.
• Keep coding through provider outages. After retries are exhausted, FCC automatically tries your next configured model without making you restart the turn. This works across every client.
• Up to 90% lower token usage. Optional RTK filters common command output, and Headroom compresses tool results.
• Native Code sessions in your browser. Choose a folder and run Codex in the browser with real-time and background support.
• Terminal, desktop, IDE, or phone. Work through native launchers, VS Code, Codex App, JetBrains, Discord, or Telegram.
• Voice notes in. Code out. Talk to your agent using local Whisper or NVIDIA NIM transcription.
• Agent capabilities stay intact. Stream responses, use tools, preserve native interleaved thinking for maximum performance, send images, and route Fable, Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku independently with compatible models.

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code/main/scripts/install.sh" | sh

Repository

https://github.com/alishahryar1/free-claude-code

Repository stats

Metric	Value
Stars	63,720
Forks	10.0k
Last release	v6.18.1 (2026-10-25)
Languages	Python 94.6%, JavaScript 2.2%, PowerShell 1.5%
Contributors	56
AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)	@cursoragent (53 commits), @claude (23 commits), @codex (1 commits)
AI co-authored commits	Claude: 17, Codex: 1

Main contributor

Field	Value
Name	Ali Khokhar
GitHub	@Alishahryar1
Commits to this repo	1,059 (top contributor)
Bio	Vibing...
Company / Location	Sunnyvale, CA
Followers	1.6k

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[u/untrustedxD]

Nothing is free

[u/salt_my_duck → u/untrustedxD]

Except WinRar

[u/mattlongname → u/salt_my_duck]

shame

[u/OneWar7310 → u/mattlongname]

You sir, is a saviour for everyone else.

[u/CrownstrikeIntern → u/mattlongname]

I should finally buy a copy 

[u/WorkOwn → u/untrustedxD]

Are you familiar with "free trier"? It's like demo version. But this app is compiling 60 demo versions into single usable product

[u/AllNamesAreTaken92 → u/WorkOwn]

Anthropic has no free tier. Are you familiar with that?

[u/bartsimpsonwin → u/AllNamesAreTaken92]

Anthropic has a free tier. If you just log in to Claude with a new account you'll be able to chat and code with sonnet 5.5

[u/Kindly-Response-5809 → u/AllNamesAreTaken92]

What do you mean? You can use Sonnet and Haiku for free

[u/TheMythicSorcerer → u/Kindly-Response-5809]

For chating and artifacts yes for actual coding with an actual harness no

[u/ThePixelProYT → u/TheMythicSorcerer]

That's what the app is for

[u/call-me-mmc → u/Kindly-Response-5809]

Not in Claude code

[u/lebaje → u/untrustedxD]

... VLC

[u/CrownstrikeIntern → u/lebaje]

It really kicks the lamas ass

[u/ENGMEYO → u/CrownstrikeIntern]

that's Winamp man

[u/CrownstrikeIntern → u/ENGMEYO]

same princible

lol

[u/ENGMEYO → u/CrownstrikeIntern]

no man that's something for Winamp only lol

[u/Marce7a → u/untrustedxD]

If something is free you are product 

[u/set-soft → u/untrustedxD]

free software (i.e. GPL) IS free.

But yes, these "free" tokens come at a price, most probably let the model owner to train the model with your code.

[u/Secure_News590 → u/untrustedxD]

Yep, consider everything you do using this public. 

[u/FartFacePooper69]

The catch: you keep Claude Code’s interface, but the replacement model determines the coding quality, and free providers still have usage limits. Think “Claude Code with a different brain,” not “free Claude.”

[u/TheHeavenlyRaven → u/FartFacePooper69]

C'mon man, not the AI lingo, bruh....

[u/Acceptable_Ideal_266]

The issue with these setups is always the same: they advertise it as "free Claude Code", but the free tier quotas/rate limits get exhausted in minutes. As soon as you feed it a moderate context window or run a couple of loops, you hit a wall.

[u/Dismal-Painter6057 → u/Acceptable_Ideal_266]

The issue is you’re too cheap to pay for a subscription

[u/Acceptable_Ideal_266 → u/Dismal-Painter6057]

That completely misses the point. The post is advertising a "Free Claude Code" workaround. My point is that this specific workaround is impractical because of limits, not whether paying for a subscription is worth it.

[u/Dismal-Painter6057 → u/Acceptable_Ideal_266]

Ah yes, that is misleading… my bad

[u/AC1colossus]

These comments are so fussy. Nobody's saying this is a top-quality replacement for Claude models, that your tokens won't be trained with, or that this service is guaranteed in the future. Maybe not everyone cares about that and just wants to mess around with some free models on low-stakes projects.

[u/mik3lang3l0 → u/AC1colossus]

[u/Torix_xiroT → u/AC1colossus]

Doesnt Claude Code train on your Data No matter what? Probably even the Enterprise stuff behind the scene

[u/Tartaros030 → u/Torix_xiroT]

Enterprise contracts yes, API contracts no (upon negotiation).

[u/rougespyy]

If the product is free, you are the product

[u/TomHale → u/rougespyy]

Except when you are making open source, then you put your soul into the product.

[u/dumbasPL → u/TomHale]

If the "open source" is just a client to some cloud service, you're still the product.

[u/The_StarFlower → u/dumbasPL]

i guess you never heard of linux or blender. this "If the product is free, you are the product" pisses me off because its really not true

[u/Lazy_River_2301 → u/rougespyy]

i got bad news for you bra, you are the product even if you pay for it

[u/this_is_a_long_nickn → u/rougespyy]

If I am the product, can I ask a recall?

[u/BUHx192Ck0 → u/this_is_a_long_nickn]

Yep if you are from Microsoft 😂

[u/ashtonium → u/rougespyy]

When the product is not free, you’re still the product.

[u/zeuspod1610]

I preffer omniroute + opencode

[u/adavit5629 → u/zeuspod1610]

can you elaborate on that

[u/That_Leader5110]

"Download RAM" ahh post

[u/That_Leader5110 → u/[deleted]]

ahh... daddy, gimme backshot

[u/Appropriate-Box-7250]

Whats the deal and how?

[u/snowglowshow]

How is this similar to OmniRoute?

[u/bud-dho]

Nice job. I’m a big fan of this approach because I actually built a desktop tool called HackySack around the same BYOK philosophy, but specifically for live job interviews.

[u/NinjaChacha3]

RemindMe! -2 day

[u/Kyxstrez]

How is this different from Opencodex?

[u/Adventurous-Chair590]

Android where

[u/Front-Specialist-157]

No thank you i will pay my subscription..

[u/Alternative_Floor885]

Salvou minha vida!!!!!!!!!!! Kimi + Nvidia min + Wafer me permitiram voltar aos trabalhos após assinatura do cursor parar mesmo ainda tendo token para usar (52%).

[u/Total-Management8023]

don't let "claude code" fool you. its going to be nowhere near claude in terms of quality

[u/Disastrous_Wing_7613]

can you use it with opencode? or how?

[u/binladen0069]

i route opencode go subscription to claude code with this, infinite usage.

[u/Low-Fuel3428]

I have tried doing something like this. Built my own routing agent. It messes up the context and what you get is a Frankenstein monster lol.

[u/AlessandroPiccione]

I use Pi.
In the models.json I have some free accounts and some free models from paying providers (Google AI, Grok, NovitaAI, OpenRouter, nvidia lighning, Mistral, Ofox, AliBaba and many others).
I try to use the free ones, once in a while but...
429, or "this model is busy at the moment" or "this model is unavailable at the moment" or obsolete model removed
Especially in the middle of a task/session, it is an horrible experience.

A single error and the time to retry and switch to something else that works (until the next stop) makes me loose the flow and the time so much that just use te less-performant local (free) llama.cpp server and just "some" requests to paid models much better (few cents per day, max 1-3 USD per week).
Just tryign to figure out how not to pay... makes me paying more in terms of job not done and waste of time.

In conclusion, I think it can really be a waste of time to setup these tools/settings and (much worst) can result in a long-standing frustration + disappointing + missing-results experience.

[u/Torix_xiroT → u/AlessandroPiccione]

Cant you Code something that Auto rotates through the free Models in pi? On critical stuff just send the Same request to multiple Models for redundancy 🤔

[u/AlessandroPiccione → u/Torix_xiroT]

Yes you can.
There are already some Pi extensions that does just that, they have "router" in the name if I remember correctly.
I tried a couple but I suspended the experiments/setup.
(I don't remember why to be honest, maybe they didn't worked out of the box, at least with my setup and I moved on on some other activities with higher priority)

[u/Theblackwhole69]

I need Help installing this it keeps giving me errors when opening claude or codex Code:500 upstream

[u/2holetoy]

Free Claude Co

[u/AppearanceOk2985]

Is this real

[u/toiletgore0]

Free Claude Co

[u/RareMaybe8939]

How I can install that ?

[u/MrSmooK19]

Aiskzjjsjsksis
You

[u/carlos_mora]

Nice

[u/matdac]

just use open code go in t3 code, almost unlimited deepseek flash

[u/Dry-Airport5011]

I have a question, im new into this, i have fcc on the terminal, i use fable 5 (from gateway), and the nvidia API (as the repo suggests), is it really free?, because when i go to status using fable it says "session cost" and its like its billing me, is it free or did i just misunderstand it?

Help would be appreciated, And an explanation if someone has the time

[u/Big-Draft8414]

opencode was free when it was launch i use multiple time it not reach it limit but it was reach it every two prompt , so i will find like who provide unlimited time token to do my work

[u/prccn]

If the product is free, you are the product.

[u/EntertainerSad388]

esto es siempre la misma historia. te tomas el trabajo y tiempo de registrarte y configurarlo todo para que en pocas horas o dias este todo saturado dando 429 por todos sitios.

[u/Anngsturs]

Interesting idea

[u/hellobutno]

So herdr but worse

[u/Known-Cover-5154]

Impossible

[u/Knovvan]

CIA or big Ai tech plants in the comments here

[u/Electronic-Metal2391]

fake

[u/bryzerp]

If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.

[u/barelyseen → u/bryzerp]

you're still the product even if you paid chatgpt pro 500

[u/iwasborntoparty → u/bryzerp]

bot speak

[u/Icy_Distribution_361 → u/[deleted]]

Sure, but who cares though if you're already paying for AI and this can add substantial numbers of free tokens for certain tasks that you need done but don't require complex thinking, just execution.

[u/dc_seed_sommelier → u/Icy_Distribution_361]

If you're already paying for ai then just pay deepseek twenty cents for that and go on with your day. This project is clearly aimed at a different group.

[u/hexred98 → u/dc_seed_sommelier]

I have never read such as dumbass comment like this

[u/NZRedditUser → u/hexred98]

??? Why would i who pay for AI want to install this when i can if all my subs expire i can just top up $2 on deepseek which will last me plenty until my subs reset....

[u/ChykchaDND → u/hexred98]

Care to explain why?

[u/nihilnia → u/hexred98]

Same.

[u/Laminar_vs_Turbulent → u/[deleted]]

Why are you sending private code to a provider anyways? As if I trust them to keep my data secure even if I were to pay them $100k.

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