Using your Opencode Go subscription in Claude Code

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Kristof Kovacs

Software Architect & DevOps Consultant

Hello, I’m Kristof, a human being like you, and an easy to work with, friendly guy.

I've been a programmer, a consultant, CIO in startups, head of software development in government, and built two software companies.

Some days I’m coding Golang in the guts of a system and other days I'm wearing a suit to help clients with their DevOps practices.

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TL;DR: #

export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=minimax-m3
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=minimax-m3
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=minimax-m3
export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL=minimax-m3
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://opencode.ai/zen/go/"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=""
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="$OPENCODE_API_KEY"

You can use only the Anthropic-compatible models: check on OpenCode Go's website — you want the ones that have @ai-sdk/anthropic in the AI SDK PACKAGE column.

OpenCode Go Minimax M3 running in Claude Clode

As of writing this (2026-06-14), these are the MiniMax and the Qwen models, the top ones being:

minimax-m3
qwen-3.7-plus
qwen-3.7-max

Don't expect Opus-level performance out of them (maybe Opus a few months ago), but I'm a firm believer that if you can work with the cheaper models, then you will definitely be able to work with the expensive ones when you have to.

Why would I want to do this? #

For example, I'm not currently a Claude subscriber – when I need their models, I use them through OpenRouter. But sometimes I'm interested in some new feature of their Claude Code harness, and this is the easiest (also, cheapest 😇) way to experiment with that.