Nvicode - Free unlimited claudecode 40RPM

Route Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenClaw through NVIDIA or OpenRouter with one setup.

nvicode lets you choose a provider once, save the API key once, pick a model once, and then launch the coding tool you want against that same backend.

What it gives you:

• One guided setup flow for provider, key, and model
• Claude Code support
• Codex CLI support
• OpenClaw support
• NVIDIA proxy mode with pacing and local usage tracking
• OpenRouter direct mode for compatible models
• Dynamic NVIDIA model discovery for current Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM, and Qwen picks

Supported environments:

• macOS
• Ubuntu/Linux
• WSL
• Native Windows with Claude Code installed and working from PowerShell, CMD, or Git Bash

Quickstart

Install nvicode:

npm install -g nvicode

Choose provider, key, and model:

nvicode select model

Launch the tool you want:

nvicode launch claude
nvicode launch codex
nvicode launch openclaw

Provider setup:

• NVIDIA: get a free key from NVIDIA Build API Keys
• OpenRouter: use your OpenRouter API key

What happens after first launch:

• The first successful nvicode launch claude installs persistent plain claude routing.
• The first successful nvicode launch codex installs persistent plain codex routing.
• nvicode launch openclaw updates the default OpenClaw profile for the selected provider/model.

After that, plain:

claude
codex

continues using your selected nvicode provider and model.

Screenshots

Save your API key

Choose a model

Launch through your selected provider

How It Works

• Claude Code:
  • NVIDIA uses a local Anthropic-compatible proxy on 127.0.0.1:8788
  • OpenRouter connects directly to https://openrouter.ai/api
• Codex CLI:
  • uses the local nvicode proxy
  • nvicode configures Codex to talk to that proxy through the Responses API
• OpenClaw:
  • updates the default OpenClaw config for the selected provider/model
  • restart the gateway after config changes:

openclaw gateway restart

Commands

Common commands:

nvicode select model
nvicode launch claude
nvicode launch codex
nvicode launch openclaw
nvicode dashboard
nvicode usage
nvicode activity
nvicode models
nvicode config
nvicode auth
nvicode launch claude -p "Reply with exactly OK"
nvicode launch codex "Explain this project"

Behavior notes:

• nvicode select model asks for provider, optional API key update, and model choice in one guided flow.
• For NVIDIA, model selection fetches the live NVIDIA catalog and highlights one current top pick each from Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM, and Qwen before falling back to curated defaults.
• Claude Code uses direct OpenRouter mode for OpenRouter, and proxy mode for NVIDIA.
• Codex currently uses the local nvicode proxy path.
• nvicode usage, activity, and dashboard are currently focused on NVIDIA proxy sessions.
• OpenRouter does not currently produce the same local usage visibility as the NVIDIA proxy flow.
• NVIDIA requests are paced to 40 RPM by default. Override with NVICODE_MAX_RPM if your account allows more.

In an interactive terminal, nvicode usage refreshes live every 2 seconds. When piped or redirected, it prints a single snapshot.

The usage dashboard compares your local NVIDIA run cost against Claude Opus 4.6 at $5 / MTok input and $25 / MTok output, based on Anthropic pricing as of 2026-03-30. If your NVIDIA endpoint is not free, override local cost estimates with NVICODE_INPUT_USD_PER_MTOK and NVICODE_OUTPUT_USD_PER_MTOK.

Requirements

• Claude Code must already be installed to use nvicode launch claude.
• Codex must already be installed to use nvicode launch codex. Install with npm install -g @openai/codex.
• OpenClaw must already be installed to use nvicode launch openclaw. Install with npm install -g openclaw@latest.
• Node.js 20 or newer is required to install nvicode.
• OpenClaw itself requires Node.js >=22.14.0.
• On native Windows, Claude Code itself requires Git for Windows. See the Claude Code setup docs.

Local Development

These steps are only for contributors working from a git checkout. End users do not need them.

npm install
npm run build
npm link

Notes

• thinking is disabled by default because some NVIDIA reasoning models can consume the entire output budget and return no visible answer to Claude Code.
• The proxy supports basic text, tool calls, tool results, and token count estimation.
• The proxy includes upstream request pacing and retries on NVIDIA 429 responses.
• Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenClaw remain the frontends; the selected provider/model becomes the backend.