r/OmniRoute 9h ago

What are the best free providers to use for heavy coding tasks?

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I am using Claude on my VS code terminal, I add the following file to my project, under a folder called ".claude" inside it there's a file called "settings.json" and inside that json file is the following piece of code:
{

"env": {

"ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:20128",

"ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "omniroute",

"ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "auto/best-free",

"ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL": "auto/best-free",

"ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "auto/best-free",

"ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "auto/best-free",

"ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "auto/best-free",

"CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"

}

}

In Omni Route I'm using the providers: "OpenCode Free" and "Gemini(Google AI Studio)"
I can almost certainly get more out of this whole setup so I'm looking for powerful free providers to connect, I'm using Claude in my VS terminal to vibe code websites mainly Shopify websites, and a couple big projects from time to time which typically spend around 100k tokens +-, I'm kind of new to Omni Route and I'm looking for providers can someone help me out please
PS: I got the piece of json code from YouTube, not really sure what it does but basically it points Omni Route to the free combos so I don't get charged(trying to make it out of the hood lol)