Claude Unlimited
When one account hits its usage limit, your session doesn't.
Claude Unlimited pools your Claude (Pro · Max), ChatGPT/Codex, and Anthropic API accounts into one continuous supply for Claude Code. When an account runs dry, the next one takes over on the very next request — same session, same context, same terminal. You keep typing.
You never notice the switch.
It happens between requests, in the background. No logout, no handover, no restarting the session — the account underneath you changes and nothing else does. Often the dashboard's activity log is the only place you'll find out it happened.
Contents
| Why Claude Unlimited | The problem it removes |
| Features | What you get |
| How it works | The flow, and why nothing leaves your machine |
| Install | One line |
| Add a Claude subscription | One command |
| Add a ChatGPT / Codex subscription | One command |
| Add an API key | Dashboard only |
| Models parity | Which GPT model runs each Claude model |
| Usage | Daily driving |
| The Claude desktop app | Route the app through your pool too |
| The dashboard | What you can see and control |
| Notifications | Know before you run out |
| Updates | How new versions reach you |
| Command reference | Every command |
| AGENTS.md | Setting this up with a coding agent |
| Troubleshooting · Security · Contributing | The rest |
Why Claude Unlimited
You're deep in a Claude Code session. Context is loaded, the plan is working — and you hit your usage limit.
The manual workaround is grim: write yourself a handover note, log out, log into another account, paste the note back, and hope nothing important got lost.
Claude Unlimited removes that moment entirely. When one account approaches its limit, the next one takes over on the very next request. Same session, same context, same terminal. You don't get logged out, you don't get prompted, you don't restart anything. Often the first you'll know about it is a line in the activity log.
It pools whatever you've got — Claude Pro/Max subscriptions, ChatGPT/Codex subscriptions, Anthropic API keys, your own gateway — and treats them as one continuous supply.
Other multi-account tools automate the swap too, but they're CLI-only. There's nowhere to see what's happening. Claude Unlimited's control surface is a real dashboard.
Features
| 🔄 | Seamless rotation — the handover happens between requests. Your session never breaks, never prompts, never restarts. |
| Mixed pools — Claude subscriptions, ChatGPT/Codex, and API keys side by side, each with its own priority and threshold. | |
| Claude Code, powered by GPT — a Codex account is translated to and from the Anthropic API shape, with real token-level streaming. Claude Code can't tell. | |
| 🎚️ | Models parity — you decide which GPT model and reasoning effort each Claude model maps to, and what it costs your Codex quota. |
| 🖥️ | The Claude desktop app too — not just the terminal. One command points it at your pool, and --revert puts it back. |
| 📊 | A dashboard you'll actually open — live usage bars, cost tracking, model split, per-project attribution, activity log. |
| 🔒 | 100% local — no account, no telemetry, no cloud. Your credentials never leave your machine. |
| ⚙️ | One command to work — claude-unlimited code and you're routed. |
| 🔔 | Notifications — told before you run out, not after. |
| 🔑 | OS-native credential storage — Keychain / Secret Service / DPAPI. Never plaintext on disk. |
| 📦 | Encrypted export/import — move your whole setup to another machine safely. |
| 🌍 | 4 languages — English, Spanish, Romanian, German. |
| 🪶 | Almost no dependencies — Python standard library, one library for export encryption, zero frontend build. |
How it works
claude (or any Anthropic-API client)
│
│ ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:4317
▼
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Claude Unlimited daemon — YOUR MACHINE ║ 127.0.0.1 only.
║ ║ Not reachable from
║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ your network, let
║ │ Router — picks the account │ ║ alone the internet.
║ │ sticky until it hits its threshold │ ║
║ └──────────────────┬──────────────────┘ ║
║ ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────┐ ║
║ │ Gateway — swaps in the real │ ║
║ │ credential for this one request │ ║
║ └──────────────────┬──────────────────┘ ║
║ ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────┐ ║
║ │ Dashboard · 127.0.0.1:4317 │ ║
║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═══════════════════┬═══════════════════════════╝
│ only the request you already meant to make
▼
api.anthropic.com · ChatGPT/Codex · your own gateway
The rotation is invisible to Claude Code. It sends one request, gets one answer. It is never told which account served it, never asked to re-authenticate, and never sees a different endpoint. Claude, ChatGPT/Codex and 🔑 API keys all arrive as the same Anthropic-shaped response — which is exactly why your session can carry on through a switch without noticing one happened.
Nothing leaves your computer
This is the part worth being explicit about:
- No account. No sign-up. No cloud component. There is no Claude Unlimited server. It cannot phone home, because there is no home.
- No telemetry, ever. Usage stats, cost estimates, the activity log, project
attribution — all of it is written to files in your home directory and read by a
dashboard served from
127.0.0.1. None of it is transmitted anywhere. - Your credentials never move. They live in your OS keystore (macOS Keychain, Linux Secret Service, Windows DPAPI), never in plaintext on disk, and are attached to a request only at the moment it goes to the provider you configured — Anthropic, OpenAI, or your own gateway.
claudenever sees your real credentials either. It authenticates to the daemon with a local placeholder token. The real credential is substituted server-side and never returned to the client.- Almost the only outbound traffic is the API call you already intended to make — same destination as without this tool. No quota probing, no keep-warm pings, no background chatter. The two exceptions are both ones you can name: a once-a-day version check against GitHub's public API, and refreshing an account's own OAuth token shortly before it expires, so an account you haven't used in a while doesn't quietly need a re-login.
Install
Pick your system, copy the one line, paste, done. It installs everything it needs (even Python, if you don't have it), starts in the background, and opens the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:4317/ — where you add your first account.
🍎 macOS & 🐧 Linux — paste into a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevDock-AI/claude-unlimited/main/install.sh | bash
🪟 Windows — press Win + R (or open Command Prompt), paste, press Enter:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -Command "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevDock-AI/claude-unlimited/main/install.ps1 | iex"
🪟 Windows, already in PowerShell? — paste this shorter version instead:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevDock-AI/claude-unlimited/main/install.ps1 | iex
Then run claude-unlimited code and you're routed. On Windows, run the installer from an
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