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How to use Claude Code with multiple AI Providers

Chai Phonbopit

Chai Phonbopit

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How to use Claude Code with multiple AI Providers

Normally you can use Claude Code with subscription-based (Pro/Max Plan) , API Usage billing or third-party services like Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry

Claude Code by Anthropic | AI Coding Agent, Terminal, IDE
Anthropic’s agentic coding tool for developers. Claude Code understands your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and helps you ship faster.
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But you can also use other models from various AI Providers, like Kimi 2.5, MiniMax, GLM-4.7 or even Ollama local machine.

Settings

Create your settings. for example kimi 2.5 I saved as ~/.claude/kimi-settings.json

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "YOUR_TOKEN",
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.kimi.com/coding/",
    "API_TIMEOUT_MS": "3000000",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5",
    "ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL": "kimi-k2.5"
  }
}

You can create new API Keys here: https://www.kimi.com/code/console

For glm-4.7 I created with ~/.claude/zai-settings.json

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "YOUR_TOKEN",
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic",
    "API_TIMEOUT_MS": "3000000",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "glm-4.7",
    "ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL": "glm-4.7",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "glm-4.5-air",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "glm-4.7",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "glm-4.7"
  }
}

Read more information : https://docs.z.ai/scenario-example/develop-tools/claude

Claude Code - Overview - Z.AI DEVELOPER DOCUMENT
Methods for Using the GLM Coding Plan in Claude Code
Overview - Z.AI DEVELOPER DOCUMENT

Usage

When you want to start Claude Code, normally you run this:

claude

Run with kimi:

claude --settings ~/.claude/kimi-settings.json

Run with z.ai glm-4.7

claude --settings ~/.claude/zai-settings.json

Create an alias for easier running

alias claudez="claude --settings ~/.claude/zai-settings.json"
alias claudekimi="claude --settings ~/.claude/kimi-settings.json"

so, just this:

# glm
claudez

# kimi
claudekimi

That's it. 🎉

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