OpenClaude coding setup shown

Codedigipt posted a YouTube video on May 14 showing a low-cost AI coding stack built around OpenClaude and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro model. The video was titled "OpenClaude + FREE Unlimited MIMO V2.5 Pro = The Ultimate FREE AI Coding Setup You Didn’t Know," and YouTube showed 612 views about two hours after publication. The demo presented OpenClaude as the interface layer and MiMo-V2.5-Pro as the underlying model. The video description also linked to related demos built around Claude Code, OpenRouter and other model combinations. ### Which video showed the setup? The YouTube page for video ID aKnTmQCDUZM identified the uploader as Codedigipt, a channel with 11.8K subscribers at the time the page was captured. The page showed the video was published on May 14, 2026, and used the phrase "ultimate FREE AI coding setup" in the title. YouTube's snippet also surfaced a list of related videos from the same channel and adjacent creators focused on free coding-agent configurations. (youtube.com) ### What is OpenClaude in this workflow? GitHub's repository page describes OpenClaude as an open-source coding-agent command-line tool for cloud and local model providers. The README summary says it works with OpenAI-compatible APIs, Gemini, GitHub Models, Codex OAuth, Codex, Ollama and other backends while keeping a single terminal-based workflow. The npm package page showed version 0.9.2 was published three days before the page was captured, indicating active updates around the time of the video. (youtube.com) The Visual Studio Marketplace listing for OpenClaude VS Code says the extension wraps the OpenClaude CLI inside VS Code with chat, diff viewing, slash commands and session management. That listing describes the tool as model-agnostic, which matches the video's framing of a modular stack rather than a single-vendor coding assistant. (github.com) ### What is MiMo-V2.5-Pro, and why was it part of the pitch? Xiaomi announced MiMo-V2.5-Pro on April 27, 2026, describing it as its "most capable model to date." Xiaomi's product page says the model is a 1.02 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts system with 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-token context window. The company said the release was aimed at agentic capabilities, software engineering and long-horizon tasks. (marketplace.visualstudio.com) Xiaomi's page also compared MiMo-V2.5-Pro with Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.4 on several benchmarks. Those benchmark tables and the "Try it now" and "Access API" links help explain why YouTube creators have been using the model in cost-focused coding demos, though the video itself did not provide independent benchmark verification. ### Where does the "free" claim come from? (mimo.xiaomi.com) The video's title used the words "FREE" and "Unlimited," but the YouTube page excerpt did not include pricing terms or usage caps. Xiaomi's product page said MiMo-V2.5-Pro had rolled out across its API platform and AI Studio "with no change in pricing," but the page excerpt did not state that the service was universally free. (mimo.xiaomi.com) Other recent YouTube videos about MiMo-V2.5-Pro and coding agents have made similar no-credit-card or free-usage claims, including clips about OpenCode and OpenRouter-based setups. Those pages show the broader context for the video's pitch, but they are creator claims rather than platform policy documents. ### What was the broader point of the demo? The May 14 upload fit a recent pattern of creator tutorials that separate the coding-agent interface from the model provider. (youtube.com) OpenClaude's repository page says the project is built to work across multiple backends, and Anthropic's Claude Code page similarly emphasizes terminal and IDE workflows tied to its own service tiers. The contrast in those product pages is the basis for the video's modular setup: use one interface, then swap models based on cost or availability. (youtube.com) Anthropic's current pricing page for Claude Code lists Pro at $17 a month with annual billing or $20 monthly, alongside higher Max tiers at $100 and $200 a month. The Codedigipt video's cost-saving framing appeared to target developers comparing those paid plans with alternative model-routing setups built on open-source tools. Codedigipt's YouTube page linked viewers to more setup videos, and OpenClaude's GitHub repository continues to log updates, with the latest commit shown five days before capture. (github.com) Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro page remains live with API access links and benchmark tables for developers testing the model in similar workflows. (claude.com)