Stop Paying Full Price: The Claude Code Agentic Flow Tutorial for Running Gemini, OpenRouter, and 300+ Cheap Models

Your Claude Code bill just made you flinch. Here's the fix. Here's the good news: you don't have to choose between Claude Code's agentic harness and your wallet. Claude Code is actually two separate things bolted together: a battle-tested agent loop (the part that reads files, runs terminal commands, calls tools, and manages sub-agents) and a backend model (the part that does the actual thinking). You can keep the harness you love and swap the backend for something dramatically cheaper Gemini Fl