
deepclaude
Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper.
The Lens
deepclaude swaps the model behind Claude Code without changing the interface. You keep the autonomous agent loop, file editing, and bash execution, and route calls to DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, Fireworks, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Free, MIT.
Setup is two minutes. npm install, set environment variables for your chosen provider, and the CLI behaves like Claude Code with a different brain inside. Multiple providers can be configured at once, and you switch between them at the env-var level.
Solo: real money. DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.87 per million output tokens versus Anthropic's $15 means a hobby project can stop bleeding cash. Small teams: depends entirely on whether your model of choice handles your codebase as well as Sonnet does. Larger teams: probably stay on Anthropic. A productivity hit on a senior engineer costs more than the API bill ever will.
The catch: Claude Code is good because of Sonnet and Opus, not because of the loop around them. DeepSeek is solid but it is a different model with different blind spots. Test it on your real code before committing.
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Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully free**Free tier:** The wrapper itself is free, MIT-licensed.
**Self-hosted:** You install it locally and point it at whatever API you want.
**Paid:** Comes from whichever model you route to. DeepSeek V4 Pro is around $0.87 per million output tokens. Fireworks runs about $3.48 per million for faster inference. OpenRouter sits in the same range as DeepSeek. Anthropic at $15 per million is the original price. The whole point is to spend less than the $200 per month Claude Code subscription unless you need exactly that model.
Free wrapper, paid API. The savings are real if your work survives the model swap.
License: MIT License
Use freely, including commercial. Just keep the license.
Commercial use: ✓ Yes
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