How to use Qwen3-Coder (or any other LLM) with Claude Code

Learn step‑by‑step how to replace Claude’s coding models with Qwen‑3‑Coder or any local/online LLM, integrating it directly into Claude Code.

Overview

A simple way for Claude Code users to switch from the costly Claude models to the newly released SOTA open-source/weights coding model, Qwen3-Coder, or any other LLM, locally or online.