Trying free Claude Code: proxy routing burns quota instantly, Kaggle self-hosting too slow
phantom_root · reddit · 2026-08-28
The author tried to run CLI coding agents like Claude Code for free and documented two failed paths:
- Multi-provider proxy routing (OmniRoute with Claude Sonnet/Opus, Kiro, Antigravity): top-tier models in the combo get exhausted almost immediately during multi-turn codebase audits and large repo tasks.
- Self-hosting qwen2.5-coder:32b on Kaggle's dual T4 GPUs via an Ngrok tunnel: no strict token limits but only 8-10 tokens/s, too slow for large diff rewrites, plus tool-formatting incompatibilities with Claude Code.
They're asking the community for working free or extended access routes to frontier Claude models for agentic coding.
Related event: Free Claude Code Experiments Hit Limits on Proxy and Self-Hosting(2 posts)→
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