Claude Code Integrated with DeepSeek-R1
Learn how to integrate DeepSeek-R1 & other AI models into Claude Code using claude-bridge. Boost productivity with seamless model switching!
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This is the third article on Claude Code.
In the previous two articles, I’ve already covered the principles, techniques, installation, use cases, and comparisons with similar tools for Claude Code.
Today, this article will explain how to integrate third-party models into Claude Code and share my experience using it recently.
Claude Code can directly integrate with DeepSeek-R1.
Developer Mario Zechner released an open-source tool called claude-bridge, breaking the restriction of only using Claude’s proprietary models. It allows seamless integration of any model, including the cost-effective and high-performing DeepSeek-R1, directly into Claude Code.
Anthropic’s official Claude Code currently only supports its own closed-source models.
But now, you can smoothly call DeepSeek-R1. In fact, it’s not limited to DeepSeek—models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini, or even locally run models like Llama and Grok, as long as they have OpenAI-compatible interfaces, can be used.
It’s essentially using Claude’s interface to run other models—everything can be “Claude Code.”