00:00I'm going to show you guys how you can use claude code completely for free in today's video

00:04Effectively, what we're going to be doing is we're going to be using claw code, but we're going to be using free models with clawed router

00:11It's very easy to set up

00:11Use open router

00:13Open router often has free or cheap models, and you can get the power of claw code with a free model

00:18Let's get into it

00:21So, the first thing you want to do is you want to find a free model

00:24So, I'm assuming on the side here, okay, there's no pricing

00:26Oh, yeah

00:28Prompt pricing

00:28So, if I just put this to zero, I'm assuming that we can see all of the free models

00:32So, for example, we could use the new Soma Dusk Alpha, Soma Sky Alpha, Deepseek V3.1, GBT O

00:41You've got all of these different options of free AIS, which literally cost you absolutely nothing

00:47Now, a lot of people recently have been talking about GLM, so I'm going to make this video about GLM

00:52Now, obviously, this is a free version of it, so it's the air

00:56So, I don't know how well this is actually going to perform, but I'm just going to show you guys how we can actually set this up with Claude router

01:03So, let's just go to a new window here

01:06New profile

01:06Okay

01:06MKD uh 4.5 Claude code

01:09CD4.5 Claude Code

01:13So, we're now inside this part of Claude Code

01:16So, let's just go to Google and type Claude router

01:18And you can see right here we have claw router and you can see it's actually made specifically for GLM 4.5

01:25So what we can do is we can run this installation

01:31So we'll install and then we'll install again

01:36That was claw code

01:38Didn't realize

01:38There we go

01:40So now we're installing claw code router

01:41Let's just zoom in a little bit so you guys can see

01:43Okay

01:43So we can run CCR UI right here

01:45And this brings up this um this window, right? So we can edit things a little bit more easily here

01:54So currently we have open AI, but I'm going to add a provider here

01:57Oh, let's just actually search providers

02:01Open

02:01Oh, no

02:01Okay, that's my current providers

02:04So let's do open router

02:08This is all fine

02:08Let's get an API key quickly

02:10So we go to open router

02:13Go to keys

02:13Create API key

02:18create

02:20There we go

02:20So, we'll set this and then models

02:23Let's go uh what is it? Let's go back to the model card

02:27Copy

02:31Paste that in

02:31Add model

02:31Select transformer

02:34Um, okay

02:37Actually, I don't know if I need to do this, but I guess I'll just select it

02:45Okay

02:45I don't know how this works to be honest with you

02:46I'm just going to press save

02:47Okay, so we now have open rout

02:50Let's delete open AI here and then let's run the code

02:53So we need to run CCR code

02:58So CCR code

03:03Yes

03:03And then we should see this here

03:06There we go

03:06So this is using API base URL which is my URL

03:08And let's see if I do models

03:11Now you can't see it on models

03:13That's okay

03:15So just so you know guys, if you say what model are you, it will tell you that it's um Sonnet, right? Or Opus

03:22The reason being is that it has a system prompt telling it that it's uh Claude Sonnet, right? Okay

03:31So we can now see that the although it says it's Claude Sonnet, you can see it says GLM 4.5 air, which means there was just a call to this

03:38Now, I deleted the I accidentally deleted the wrong one here before, but I just had to redo it

03:44And then I put my settings here

03:46So, default, background, and think right here

03:48So, now you can see that I'm successfully making Why was there 13,000 tokens there? What the hell? That's crazy

03:56But it's completely free

03:56So, now I can use the power of Claude Code completely for free

04:00Now, obviously, I'm not saying that this is going to be as good as um claw code with Opus necessarily, but I do think this is quite an interesting way to get into this kind of terminal based coding completely for free

04:13So, from here, you can just say something like, make me a simple HTML, CSSJS, uh to-do app

04:21Now, I'm just doing a to-do app just to show that it, you know, can actually make something

04:24I know that's really annoying when people do to-do apps, but I'm not going to go through the entire process of building a Next.js service website just for this video because I just want to show people quickly and easily how you can get Claude Code set up for free

04:37Okay, so it's finished this to-do app

04:39I'm just going to see if it can um Okay, I can't directly open files in a browser

04:46Yeah, you can, but And then Yeah

04:49Okay, I get it

04:49It's a stupid example

04:51Okay, it's a terrible example

04:53Don't do to-do apps on YouTube

04:53This is my to-do app

04:56This is the first time in a long time that I've done a to-do app

05:00Okay, so just bear with me

05:00Let's just see if it saves

05:02It probably won't

05:03Yeah, perfect

05:03So, yeah

05:03Like I said, this video is just going to be very, very simple and easy to show you how you can use claude code completely for free with free models from open router

05:12Now, my advice to you guys is if you want to create something quite complicated, right, but you don't want to spend 200 bucks a month, what you need to do is you need to grab models while they're free

05:26Like, for example, Gemini 2.5 was free for a long time on Open Router or something like um Soma, right? Where is Sonoma? There we go

05:36So, Soma Dusk Alpha and Soma Sky Alpha

05:39I believe Sky was the better one

05:41Um, you could easily bu be building something completely for free right now using Sonoma Sky Alpha, right? You could literally be building an entire app in Claude Code completely for free with a 2 million context window and I reckon it would do a pretty damn good job

05:58I might do a video on this, like a gorilla method of building an entire website completely for free using Sonoma Sky Alpha

06:04But honestly guys, you can just work it out for yourselves as well

06:07I'll leave the video there guys

06:09Thank you so much for watching

06:09If you're watching all the way to the end of the video, as usual, you're an absolute legend and I'll see you very, very soon with some more content

06:15Peace out.