Hello everyone! I’ve been trying out the new Claude-code challenge, which I was exited for, I tried to run the code locally but seems that the Openrouter service is paid and unfortunately can’t afford it right now. Is there a way to use another LLM service with a free tier ?? (at least locally, so …

Most LLM providers (local or hosted) should support an OpenAI-compatible API, so I think small changes to your code can get it working against any other provider. Haven’t tried this myself yet though!

thanks for you reply! yeah, I ended up running ollama locally using docker and a gemma3 model

@tomasdepi nice! What changes did you have to make? I assume just pointing the base url to localhost + changing the model name worked?

here are the commands: Run ollama locally docker run -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama Pull the model docker exec -it ollama ollama pull gemma3 btw, gemma3 does not support Tools, which is required for next steps in the challenge, so I’m exploring other mode…

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