Best Ollama Models to Drive Claude Code Without Anthropic's API
Which Ollama models work as a local backend for Claude Code's CLI, what features degrade without Anthropic's API, and how to wire it up.
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Which Ollama models work as a local backend for Claude Code's CLI, what features degrade without Anthropic's API, and how to wire it up.
Open-weight coding LLMs sized by VRAM: Qwen2.5-Coder, Qwen3-Coder, Devstral Small 2, KAT-Coder, GLM-4.7-Flash, and the trade-offs at each tier.