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Comment by sumedh | Hacker News Reader

Can we use Claude models by default in Claude Code and then switch to GLM models if claude hits usage limits?

This works:

  $ZAI_ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=xxx
  $ZAI_ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=xxx

  alias "claude-zai"="ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=$ZAI_ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$ZAI_ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN claude"

Then you can run `claude`, hit your limit, exit the session and `claude-zai -c` to continue (with context reset, of course).

Why would one want to do that instead of using claude-zai -c from the start? All this is pretty new to me, kick a n00b a clue please.

Claude is smarter than this model. So spilling over to a less preferred model when you run out of quota is a thing.

Thanks will try it out.

There is config you can add to your ~/.claude/settings.json file for this. (I'm on mobile!)

I tried this and it broke the conversation. :(

Yes you usually need to compact first before doing this kind of thing because the context windows are different.

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