How to Use Claude Code for FREE (2026)

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🔥 Join Maker School & get customer #1 guaranteed: 📚 Watch my NEW 2026 Claude Code course: 🎙️ Listen to my silly podcast: 📚 Free multi-hour courses → Claude Code (4hr full course): → Vibe Coding w/ Antigravity (6hr full course): → Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): → N8N (6hr full course, 890K+ views): Summary ⤵️ Here's how to use Claude Code for free (basically free Claude Code, or at least really cheap CLaude Code) with NVIDIA-NIM, OpenRouter, Ollama for local models, and high-quality ones like DeepSeek V4 Flash. Enjoy! My software, tools, & deals (some give me kickbacks—thank you!) 🚀 Instantly: 📧 Anymailfinder: 🤖 Apify: (30% off with code 30NICKSARAEV) 🧑🏽‍💻 n8n: 📈 Rize: (25% off with promo code NICK) Follow me on other platforms 😈 📸 Instagram: 🕊️ Twitter/X: 🤙 Blog: Why watch? If this is your first view—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent six years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like. Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life 🙏 Like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:47 Setting Up Free Claude Code Repo 06:30 Setting Up OpenRouter 14:00 Setting Up NVIDIA-NIM 18:50 Setting Up Ollama 26:00 Conclusion