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I am curious - Is there a way to switch between models depending on the task? Because I believe Deepseek V4 is not multimodal and it will be good to switch back to Claude if vision or other capabilities are required.

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I was looking into something similar because I wanted to test a local model for doing basic coding and smart model (deepseek) for planning.

It's basically not possible with claude code, the api endpoint is a single environment variable and whatever models are on that endpoint are what's available.

HOWEVER, if you run a proxy like LiteLLM, you can configure it to send requests to different api endpoints on the back end and expose them as different "models" on the front end, then configure claude code to switch between those virtual models.

Found this: https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch

It allows for switching models in Claude Code.

Right that says it has a proxy feature so it can probably do what I was describing with LiteLLM

Check out the project called superpowers. It can use different models for different agents. I use it witb opencode to have different models for reaearch, planning, execution, testing etc

There is a tool called deepclaude, which runs a proxy in the background capable of doing this, by simply doing /model in Claude.

i've been trying that, in reality every time you try to save it, it's not worth it, the cost of mistake is so high , you can spent 2-3h on just wrong assumption, you lost your time and all the burned tokens.

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