How to use DeepSeek LLM in Claude Code

DeepSeek, via their platform, now has support for an Anthropic-like API format which means you can now use it with your Claude Code 🔥

How to get started?

Just set these environment variables, and then you can start using DeepSeek in Claude Code.

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=${YOUR_API_KEY}
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=deepseek-chat
export ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL=deepseek-chat

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Make sure to configure your DeepSeek API key that you get from their platform.

Reference

• https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/anthropic_api

Happy AI coding!