· about 5 hours ago· Dev.to
Streamline Claude Code with Custom Backends: A Quick Guide
TL;DR: Claude Code's ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env var lets you redirect every request to any compatible backend in one shell line. Almost no one does it, but it unlocks caching, rate-limit pooling, multi-vendor routing, audit logging, and billing routing without rewriting any code. Here's the 2-line setup
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