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Claude Code on Meridian

Use Claude Code with Meridian's unified billing. Two environment variables and you are wired in.

Environment

# 1. Get a Meridian key
#    https://meridian.getnimbus.net/dashboard/keys

# 2. Point Claude Code at Meridian's OpenAI-compatible base URL
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://meridian.getnimbus.net/api/v1
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$MERIDIAN_API_KEY
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=auto

# 3. Run as normal
claude

Settings file

Persist across sessions:

// ~/.config/claude/settings.json
{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://meridian.getnimbus.net/api/v1",
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "YOUR_MERIDIAN_KEY",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "auto"
  }
}

Pick a model

  • auto — Meridian routes per request (recommended).
  • azure/gpt-5-codex — code-tuned.
  • azure/gpt-5.1 — flagship reasoning.
  • azure/DeepSeek-V4-Pro — analytical second opinion.

See the full catalog at /models.

Claude Code does not expose embeddings, audio, or files APIs. Use the Python or TypeScript SDK pages for those examples.

Billing. Flat $1 = 1M tokens across every model. Track spend in your dashboard.