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by TacticalCoder 49 days ago
It's really getting a lot of upvotes so it's nearly as if people were feeling locked-in and wanted a way out but...

Why would you keep using CC CLI if you want to use the much cheaper DeepSeek v4 models (Flash and Pro): isn't it the opportunity to kiss CC CLI goodbye and use something not controlled by Anthropic?

Anyone here successfully moved from CC CLI to a fully open-source project? I'm asking this as a Claude Code CLI (Sonnet/Opus) user. My "stack" is all open-source: from Linux to Emacs to what-have-you. I'd rather also have open-weight models and a fully open-source (not controlled by a single company) AI CLI.

Any suggestion for something that works well? (by "well" I mean "as well as Claude Code CLI", which is not a panacea so my bar ain't the end of the world either).
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KronisLV 47 days ago
CC can use the Flash model for sub-agents and other tasks but keep using the Pro model for the main thread and thinking there. It also has a decent permission system and commands that people are quite used to.

Personally I’d say that the closest alternative you’d get is OpenCode.

They are TUI focused and also do have a web/desktop version, though that’s not quite as good as Claude’s Desktop app (and Claude Code functionality within it) yet. The TUI itself is solid though and they support a lot of different providers and models (/connect and /models).

For GUI driven stuff, I’ve personally had good experiences with KiloCode (in Visual Studio Code, personally I also liked RooCode of which KiloCode is a fork, but that stopped development) or just using the Zed editor with their built in agent.

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