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You have an odd definition of "blew up in their faces". What, do you somehow think your average Claude Code user on HN is going to think "Oh wow, I'm sure I'll

You have an odd definition of "blew up in their faces". What, do you somehow think your average Claude Code user on HN is going to think "Oh wow, I'm sure I'll get a much better experience if instead of going to the standard Anthropic Claude API endpoint I go through xiaohongshu.com."

SepiaSapient 4mo ago
I mean, yes? I heard of these Chinese resellers like a week ago and put it on the TODO pile due to a lack of leads. Now I'm gonna go trough the list and see if there's any I find acceptable. If enough Westerners start using the service someone will make a website more anglo-friendly.
aftbit 4mo ago
For personal projects with no data sensitivities, I use Claude Code with DeepSeek v4 Pro a lot. I'm probably going to switch to OpenCode or pi.dev after this. I was already a little annoyed at using a closed source harness, but it matched what I used at work. Nowadays, I'm mostly using Codex at work so no reason not to switch anymore.
- nebben64 4mo ago
  wait, you can use other models with CC harness?
  - aftbit 4mo ago
    Yes, as long as they support the Anthropic API standard. You might have luck converting between standards using litellm's proxy. The system prompt and tool choice are tuned for Anthropic's models. For example, this setup will use Deepseek V4 Pro with their first-party (subsidized) API. Things like the Read tool on images won't work, but mostly this works well. Your mileage may vary. #!/bin/sh export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-secret export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=${ANTHROPIC_MODEL:-deepseek-v4-pro} export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 exec claude $@
    - nebben64 4mo ago
      Thank you!
skeptic_ai 4mo ago
At 90% discount. Maybe. Plus the exact sites they want to ban now got immense visibility. Plus we don’t need to vet any website, if are in this list is because they really call Claude api. At least at some point did
- gck1 4mo ago
  It's not really a 90% discount (I went into the rabbit hole) and none of the sites from this list are what people use (looks like some labs and random sites). It's more closer to 30% specifically for Claude models, and it's constantly changing. It's also a discount relative to API prices. It would still be much more expensive than a Claude subscription, because that's what these providers are actually doing - pooling subscriptions.

SepiaSapient 4mo ago

I mean, yes? I heard of these Chinese resellers like a week ago and put it on the TODO pile due to a lack of leads. Now I'm gonna go trough the list and see if there's any I find acceptable. If enough Westerners start using the service someone will make a website more anglo-friendly.

aftbit 4mo ago

For personal projects with no data sensitivities, I use Claude Code with DeepSeek v4 Pro a lot. I'm probably going to switch to OpenCode or pi.dev after this. I was already a little annoyed at using a closed source harness, but it matched what I used at work. Nowadays, I'm mostly using Codex at work so no reason not to switch anymore.

nebben64 4mo ago
wait, you can use other models with CC harness?
- aftbit 4mo ago
  Yes, as long as they support the Anthropic API standard. You might have luck converting between standards using litellm's proxy. The system prompt and tool choice are tuned for Anthropic's models. For example, this setup will use Deepseek V4 Pro with their first-party (subsidized) API. Things like the Read tool on images won't work, but mostly this works well. Your mileage may vary. #!/bin/sh export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-secret export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=${ANTHROPIC_MODEL:-deepseek-v4-pro} export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 exec claude $@
  - nebben64 4mo ago
    Thank you!

skeptic_ai 4mo ago

At 90% discount. Maybe. Plus the exact sites they want to ban now got immense visibility. Plus we don’t need to vet any website, if are in this list is because they really call Claude api. At least at some point did

gck1 4mo ago
It's not really a 90% discount (I went into the rabbit hole) and none of the sites from this list are what people use (looks like some labs and random sites). It's more closer to 30% specifically for Claude models, and it's constantly changing. It's also a discount relative to API prices. It would still be much more expensive than a Claude subscription, because that's what these providers are actually doing - pooling subscriptions.