Claude Code Router
Hacker ApprovedRanked 4 of 8 LLM gateways by recommenders
Lets Claude Code send requests to other models, including local ones, and shows what they do. Critics find it bloated and flaky, with tool names sometimes double-translated.
Lets Claude Code send requests to other models, including local ones, and shows what they do. Critics find it bloated and flaky, with tool names sometimes double-translated.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 79%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Routes Claude Code to other models
“anything with an open ai compatible endpoint can have claude code router put in front of it afaik”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified” “To fix that I use Claude Code Router and hooked up those two features to Gemini (free) instead.”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec” “because it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec” - Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding”
- Comment from 22 Dec 2025 on Hacker News
Works with local open-source models
“it's a much better speed vs quality vs cost tradeoff compared to running Qwen3 locally”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out” “I do love having insight when I run qwen locally through Claude Code Router”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?” “I use it since some weeks with opensource models and it works pretty well”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Agent design is still hard” Shows what intercepted requests do
“because it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec” “I do love having insight when I run qwen locally through Claude Code Router”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?” “it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec” Cheaper models for Claude Code
“To fix that I use Claude Code Router and hooked up those two features to Gemini (free) instead.”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec” “it's a much better speed vs quality vs cost tradeoff compared to running Qwen3 locally”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out”
Other LLM gateways people recommend
The four most recommended other LLM gateways, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiteLLM | 72 | 94 | 43% | 12 | — | — |
| Bifrost by Maxim | 17 | 6 | 74% | 10 | — | Approved |
| GoModel | 13 | 2 | 87% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Claude Code RouterThis page | 11 | 3 | 79% | 5 | — | Approved |
| CLIProxyAPI | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I do love having insight when I run qwen locally through Claude Code Router”
“They also never mention the original author in the README.”
“anything with an open ai compatible endpoint can have claude code router put in front of it afaik”
“it's a much better speed vs quality vs cost tradeoff compared to running Qwen3 locally”
“nothing gets to fully line things up (double-translated tool names for example)”
“which you can use to route any models through Claude Code”
“Claude-Code-Router (an excellent library)”
“They don't have to pivot, since it already exists: Claude Code Router”
“I got annoyed at CCRs bloat and flakiness tho”
“I use it since some weeks with opensource models and it works pretty well”
“because it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models”
“it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models”
“To fix that I use Claude Code Router and hooked up those two features to Gemini (free) instead.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.