Claude Code is now FREE: Here’s how… artwork

Claude Code is now FREE: Here’s how…

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

June 7, 2026

Free Claude Code Setup: Run Claude Code on Free APIs with an Agent OS (OwlAlpha + OpenRouter)The script explains how “Claude Code is now free” by using a free, open-source project that sits between the Claude Code CLI and the API, allowing it to plug into free model APIs (e.g.
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Claude Code is now free, and I'm going to guide you through exactly how to set this up today. You can see some examples of what we built right here. So if you play this video, we actually got free Claude Code to create a bunch of examples of what you can build with free Claude Code. And then it actually created a video where it showcases all the projects together, as you can see, using another free skill, which I'll come on to in a second. So you've now got a free version of Claude Code that's super powerful, runs on any free API, and means that you can use Claude Code for free forever. I'll show you exactly how it works in a second. So that whole video, plus all of these demos, was fully created with free Claude Code, which is pretty insane. Like the outputs are good here, and this is completely free to build. Here's another example. I can create like really visual interesting stuff as well. We can preview that full screen as you can see too. If we go on this one, here's another one, pretty interesting stuff here. Here's another one, and it's not bad at all. I thought it would be terrible. It's actually pretty good. So what we've done is we've built this into our Agent Operating System, as you can see, and then we can either type to it, or we can actually chat to it. So we can use this and actually build with it directly. And then, for example, if we say, okay, build out a snake game, you can see that it will start building out directly. So you've got the prompt here that I just spoke, and now it's building it out with the preview on the right hand side. And so you can code and build anything that could be apps or anything that you want using free Claude Code with this system. You might be wondering, okay, how does it work? So basically what we do is we take the, which is a free open source project, and then we can basically use a power of Claude Code, but this allows you to plug it into any free API. And there's plenty of free APIs out there. So for example, you could use OwlAlpha on OpenRouter, you could use Gemma 4, which is also free. And I call this the Goldie Agent Engine, right? It means that you can basically build apps, or tools, or games, or websites, as you can see right here, using this free, powerful model. And so you can see it's actually building in real time. And then we've got the preview. We can also check out our workspace over here too. And so we can build anything that we want using this process, like you can see, pretty crazy, right? And we can also see what we've previously created. So if we scroll over here, you can see all the stuff that we've actually built out recently using this set up pretty wild, right? And then over here, you've got the chat. So you can speak to it with the agent video factory. You could actually ask it to create videos for you and that sort of thing, or you can use the chat in the workspace, which is absolutely amazing. So just to recap here, I built a playable game spinning galaxy animations, videos, real working apps and the cost to make them was free, right? Didn't cost anything. And so free Claude Code can basically automate everything for you on a free model. And here's the whole stack and the four things it built, right? So again, it built this video. You might be wondering, okay, how did it create this video? Like, how do you get an AI agent to do that? So what you can do here is you can use something called Remotion. And Remotion allows you to train your AI agents to create videos, right? You can create animations and put them together. And so this whole thing, this 30 second video was fully created with free Claude Code, which is pretty crazy. And so not only did it create the projects, but actually create a video about the projects as well. And yeah, it's amazing. And then these are some of the projects we built, as you can see right here, you know, and before this is the interesting thing as well. So before, if you were using Claude Code, if you want to build cool stuff, you really need an API, right? And then you use a lot of tokens and you need a lot of resources. And also you hold back because you can't build exactly what you want to build simply because when you're building out, you're worried about tokens and all that sort of thing. Whereas when we've wired free Claude Code into our agent operating system, we can build and we can experiment and we can try cool stuff. And the reason we can do that is because we're not limited or constrained by APIs or tokens, right? We can just build cool stuff out all the time. We can even control it with our voice and it's pretty wild. So that is the free Goldie Agent Engine.

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