It’s even more funny how this blew in their faces. They even advertised pretty m...

writeslowly · 2026-06-30T17:11:55 1782839515

The site collection seems pretty random. There's a mix of actual AI labs, extremely questionable resellers (like whatever "claude-opus.top" is), and then random consumer sites like baidu and xiaohongshu.

yorwba · 2026-06-30T17:57:30 1782842250

Baidu has an actual AI lab: https://huggingface.co/baidu So does Xiaohongshu: https://huggingface.co/rednote-hilab Pretty much every Chinese internet company seems to have an AI team nowadays, however small.

In addition, many Chinese companies are trying to give their programmers access to Anthropic models even though they're legally prohibited from doing so. And that might involve employees using unmodified Claude Code with an ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL pointing to a proxy on the company intranet. In Alibaba's case, I've been told by an employee that they went the extra mile of setting up a hermetic cloud environment where employees could indirectly use Claude Code without ever having it touch their work computers.

HDBaseT · 2026-06-30T23:35:51 1782862551

Baidu has been doing some interesting things in the AI space though, the 'Unlimited OCR' model is very good.

someonebaggy · 2026-06-30T22:24:37 1782858277

Are Chinese programmers really prohibited from accessing American models?

VortexLain · 2026-06-30T22:38:31 1782859111

Anthropic does their best with banning accounts. As the result, shady API reselling market emerges. OpenAI on the other hand doesn't really discriminate based on a country like that (but a VPN is required nevertheless).

yorwba · 2026-06-30T22:36:17 1782858977

By the terms of service: https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries

someonebaggy · 2026-07-01T09:03:59 1782896639

GGP said "legally prohibited" not "against terms of service"

Keep in mind the only law that applies to them is Chinese law, so even if violating a term of service was illegal in America (it isn't) it would also have to be illegal in China to justify the statement.

qwery · 2026-07-01T02:17:13 1782872233

I think they were asking about the Chinese companies/programmers being "legally prohibtied" from accessing Anthropic's product.

chvid · 2026-06-30T17:18:10 1782839890

rhoooo - so this is where to go to get cheap Claudeo at 90% off the listing price!

hn_throwaway_99 · 2026-06-30T17:22:39 1782840159

You have an odd definition of "blew up in their faces". What, do you somehow think your average Claude Code user on HN is going to think "Oh wow, I'm sure I'll get a much better experience if instead of going to the standard Anthropic Claude API endpoint I go through xiaohongshu.com."

aftbit · 2026-06-30T19:22:51 1782847371

For personal projects with no data sensitivities, I use Claude Code with DeepSeek v4 Pro a lot. I'm probably going to switch to OpenCode or pi.dev after this. I was already a little annoyed at using a closed source harness, but it matched what I used at work. Nowadays, I'm mostly using Codex at work so no reason not to switch anymore.

nebben64 · 2026-07-02T16:13:42 1783008822

wait, you can use other models with CC harness?

aftbit · 2026-07-02T19:22:08 1783020128

Yes, as long as they support the Anthropic API standard. You might have luck converting between standards using litellm's proxy. The system prompt and tool choice are tuned for Anthropic's models. For example, this setup will use Deepseek V4 Pro with their first-party (subsidized) API. Things like the Read tool on images won't work, but mostly this works well. Your mileage may vary.

    #!/bin/sh
    export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic
    export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-secret
    export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=${ANTHROPIC_MODEL:-deepseek-v4-pro}
    export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1
    exec claude $@

nebben64 · 2026-07-05T11:55:58 1783252558

Thank you!

skeptic_ai · 2026-07-01T04:10:45 1782879045

At 90% discount. Maybe. Plus the exact sites they want to ban now got immense visibility. Plus we don’t need to vet any website, if are in this list is because they really call Claude api. At least at some point did

gck1 · 2026-07-01T07:19:31 1782890371

It's not really a 90% discount (I went into the rabbit hole) and none of the sites from this list are what people use (looks like some labs and random sites). It's more closer to 30% specifically for Claude models, and it's constantly changing.

It's also a discount relative to API prices. It would still be much more expensive than a Claude subscription, because that's what these providers are actually doing - pooling subscriptions.

SepiaSapient · 2026-06-30T17:46:02 1782841562

I mean, yes? I heard of these Chinese resellers like a week ago and put it on the TODO pile due to a lack of leads. Now I'm gonna go trough the list and see if there's any I find acceptable.

If enough Westerners start using the service someone will make a website more anglo-friendly.