# Run Claude Code FREE with OpenRouter – No GPU Required!

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Programming Guru
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k9UdKH4nho
- **Дата:** 02.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 3:46
- **Просмотры:** 12,923
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50148

## Описание

Run Claude Code completely FREE using OpenRouter — no GPU required, 
works on any laptop or PC (Windows, Mac & Linux).

In this step-by-step Claude Code tutorial, I show you exactly how 
to set up Claude Code with OpenRouter's free models so you can code 
with AI at zero cost — no paid API key, no expensive hardware needed.

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settings.json:
{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://openrouter.ai/api",
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "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",
    "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "minimax/minimax-m2.5:free"
  }
}


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## Транскрипт

### Introduction []

Hello guys, welcome. In this video, we will learn how to use Cloud Code with OpenRouter. So, let's start. So, first we will go to Chrome and here I'll search for Cloud Docs. Go to this link. Go to this quick start. Now here, the installation process for Windows is given. So, you can use PowerShell or CMD. So, I'll use CMD. I'll copy this. Now I'll go to the search, type CMD, hit enter, and I'll paste the command here. I'll hit enter. Now it will take some time in installation of Cloud Code. So, we will wait. Now you can see Cloud Code successfully installed. So, if I type here Cloud, hyphen, help, enter. So, now you can see these different commands of Cloud are shown. So, it means our Cloud is installed. So, I'll close this. I'll come here and open a new tab and I'll search here for openrouter. ai. Now here, you have to create an account. I've already created it. So, now here we will create an API key. So, for that, I will click on this credit. And now you can see here on this side API key appeared. So, I'll click on this API key. I'll create one here. I'll name this Cloud 4. And here for expiration, I will select 1 hour. And I'll click create. So, now this API key is created. So, I'll copy this. I'll paste it in notepad. Now we have our API key. So, I'll go here to this PC, C, users, your user. This is HP. It is my user. By default, our Cloud folder is hidden. So, go to this and show hidden files. And now we will search here for. cloud folder. So, now you can see here. cloud folder. So, I'll double click on this to open it. And now I will make some changes to this settings. json. So, I'll right click on this, open with VS Code, maximize this. Now I'll again go to browser, open a new tab, and here I'll search for Cloud integration with OpenRouter. Now go to this link, integration with Cloud Code, OpenRouter link, open this. And here the full process is given. So, I'll go down. And here from the shell profile, I'll select this project setting file. I'll copy this. I'll go to VS Code, and I'll paste it right here. You can open this file with any text editor. Now we will put our API key here. So, I'll go again here. I'll copy my API key and paste it right here. Now keep this Anthropic API key empty, put a comma at the end, and here we will select our model. So, for model, I will use inside double quotes, all in caps, Anthropic_default_model. And I can use any free model from our OpenRouter. I'll close this API key and I'll go to models. And here I'll search for free. I'll copy this one. And inside double quotes, I'll paste it. Similarly, I'll copy this, make this Opus, and I'll make this Haiku. And I will also change the models for it. So, I'll come here. I'll paste it here. And another one, and I'll paste it right here. Now I'll control S this. Now I'll go to the search and type CMD, hit enter. And now if I type here Cloud and hit enter, yes, I trust this folder. And now you can see our Cloud is open and it is using Nvidia model. Now if I ask here, hi, you can see it returned me hi. How can I help you? So, are you Nvidia? I'm Cloud Code Anthropic official CLI for Cloud. Now I can switch between the model by forward slash model. And now you can see different models as we have stored there, Nvidia, J LM, and ManyMax. You can switch between them. So, in this way, you can set up Cloud Code with any free AI model from OpenRouter and can use it for unlimited access. So, I think this is enough for today. I hope you like the video. If you like the video, please like, subscribe, and comment. Thank you.