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Claude Relay Service
🔐 Self-hosted Claude API relay service with multi-account management
⚠️ Important Notice
Please read carefully before using this project:
🚨 Terms of Service Risk: Using this project may violate Anthropic's terms of service. Please carefully read Anthropic's user agreement before use. All risks from using this project are borne by the user.
📖 Disclaimer: This project is for technical learning and research purposes only. The author is not responsible for any account bans, service interruptions, or other losses caused by using this project.
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🤔 Is This Project Right for You?
- 🌍 Regional Restrictions: Can't directly access Claude Code service in your region?
- 🔒 Privacy Concerns: Worried about third-party mirror services logging or leaking your conversation content?
- 👥 Cost Sharing: Want to share Claude Code Max subscription costs with friends?
- ⚡ Stability Issues: Third-party mirror sites often fail and are unstable, affecting efficiency?
If you have any of these concerns, this project might be suitable for you.
Suitable Scenarios
✅ Cost Sharing with Friends: 3-5 friends sharing Claude Code Max subscription, enjoying Opus freely
✅ Privacy Sensitive: Don't want third-party mirrors to see your conversation content
✅ Technical Tinkering: Have basic technical skills, willing to build and maintain yourself
✅ Stability Needs: Need long-term stable Claude access, don't want to be restricted by mirror sites
✅ Regional Restrictions: Cannot directly access Claude official service
Unsuitable Scenarios
❌ Complete Beginner: Don't understand technology at all, don't even know how to buy a server
❌ Occasional Use: Use it only a few times a month, not worth the hassle
❌ Registration Issues: Cannot register Claude account yourself
❌ Payment Issues: No payment method to subscribe to Claude Code
If you're just an ordinary user with low privacy requirements, just want to casually play around and quickly experience Claude, then choosing a mirror site you're familiar with would be more suitable.
💭 Why Build Your Own?
Potential Issues with Existing Mirror Sites
- 🕵️ Privacy Risk: Your conversation content is completely visible to others, forget about business secrets
- 🐌 Performance Instability: Slow when many people use it, often crashes during peak hours
- 💰 Price Opacity: Don't know the actual costs
Benefits of Self-hosting
- 🔐 Data Security: All API requests only go through your own server, direct connection to Anthropic API
- ⚡ Controllable Performance: Only a few of you using it, Max $200 package basically allows you to enjoy Opus freely
- 💰 Cost Transparency: Clear view of how many tokens used, specific costs calculated at official prices
- 📊 Complete Monitoring: Usage statistics, cost analysis, performance monitoring all available
🚀 Core Features
📸 Click to view interface preview - See detailed screenshots of the Web management interface
Basic Features
- ✅ Multi-account Management: Add multiple Claude accounts for automatic rotation
- ✅ Custom API Keys: Assign independent keys to each person
- ✅ Usage Statistics: Detailed records of how many tokens each person used
Advanced Features
- 🔄 Smart Switching: Automatically switch to next account when one has issues
- 🚀 Performance Optimization: Connection pooling, caching to reduce latency
- 📊 Monitoring Dashboard: Web interface to view all data
- 🛡️ Security Control: Access restrictions, rate limiting
- 🌐 Proxy Support: Support for HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies
📋 Deployment Requirements
Hardware Requirements (Minimum Configuration)
- CPU: 1 core is sufficient
- Memory: 512MB (1GB recommended)
- Storage: 30GB available space
- Network: Access to Anthropic API (recommend US region servers)
- Recommendation: 2 cores 4GB is basically enough, choose network with good return routes to your country (to improve speed, recommend not using proxy or setting server IP for direct connection)
Software Requirements
- Node.js 18 or higher
- Redis 6 or higher
- Operating System: Linux recommended
Cost Estimation
- Server: Light cloud server, $5-10 per month
- Claude Subscription: Depends on how you share costs
- Others: Domain name (optional)
📦 Manual Deployment
Step 1: Environment Setup
Ubuntu/Debian users:
# Install Node.js
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
# Install Redis
sudo apt update
sudo apt install redis-server
sudo systemctl start redis-server
CentOS/RHEL users:
# Install Node.js
curl -fsSL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum install -y nodejs
# Install Redis
sudo yum install redis
sudo systemctl start redis
Step 2: Download and Configure
# Download project
git clone https://github.com/Wei-Shaw/claude-relay-service.git
cd claude-relay-service
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Copy configuration files (Important!)
cp config/config.example.js config/config.js
cp .env.example .env
Step 3: Configuration File Setup
Edit .env file:
# Generate these two keys randomly, but remember them
JWT_SECRET=your-super-secret-key
ENCRYPTION_KEY=32-character-encryption-key-write-randomly
# Redis configuration
REDIS_HOST=localhost
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_PASSWORD=
Edit config/config.js file:
module.exports = {
server: {
port: 3000, // Service port, can be changed
host: '0.0.0.0' // Don't change
},
redis: {
host: '127.0.0.1', // Redis address
port: 6379 // Redis port
},
// Keep other configurations as default
}
Step 4: Start Service
# Initialize
npm run setup # Will randomly generate admin account password info, stored in data/Init.json
# Start service
npm run service:start:daemon # Run in background (recommended)
# Check status
npm run service:status
🎮 Getting Started
1. Open Management Interface
Browser visit: http://your-server-IP:3000/web
Default admin account: Look in data/Init.json
2. Add Claude Account
This step is quite important, requires OAuth authorization:
- Click "Claude Accounts" tab
- If you're worried about multiple accounts sharing 1 IP getting banned, you can optionally set a static proxy IP
- Click "Add Account"
- Click "Generate Authorization Link", will open a new page
- Complete Claude login and authorization in the new page
- Copy the returned Authorization Code
- Paste to page to complete addition
Note: If you're in China, this step may require VPN.
3. Create API Key
Assign a key to each user:
- Click "API Keys" tab
- Click "Create New Key"
- Give the key a name, like "Zhang San's Key"
- Set usage limits (optional)
- Save, note down the generated key
4. Start Using Claude Code
Now you can replace the official API with your own service:
Set environment variables:
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/" # Fill in your server's IP address or domain according to actual situation
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="API key created in the backend"
Use claude:
claude
🔧 Daily Maintenance
Service Management
# Check service status
npm run service:status
# View logs
npm run service:logs
# Restart service
npm run service:restart:daemon
# Stop service
npm run service:stop
Monitor Usage
- Web Interface:
http://your-domain:3000/web- View usage statistics - Health Check:
http://your-domain:3000/health- Confirm service is normal - Log Files: Various log files in
logs/directory
Common Issue Resolution
Can't connect to Redis?
# Check if Redis is running
redis-cli ping
# Should return PONG
OAuth authorization failed?
- Check if proxy settings are correct
- Ensure normal access to claude.ai
- Clear browser cache and retry
API request failed?
- Check if API Key is correct
- View log files for error information
- Confirm Claude account status is normal
🛠️ Advanced Usage
Production Deployment Recommendations (Important!)
Strongly recommend using nginx reverse proxy + SSL certificate
It's recommended to use nginx reverse proxy and configure SSL certificate: (The following is an nginx example, if you don't want to fiddle with it, you can choose to install a panel for operation, such as Baota, 1panel, etc.)
1. Install nginx and obtain SSL certificate
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx
# Get free SSL certificate (using Let's Encrypt as example)
sudo certbot --nginx -d your-domain.com
2. nginx configuration example
Create /etc/nginx/sites-available/claude-relay configuration file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name your-domain.com;
# SSL configuration
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
# Security headers
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
# Reverse proxy configuration
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
# Timeout settings
proxy_connect_timeout 60s;
proxy_send_timeout 60s;
proxy_read_timeout 60s;
}
}
3. Enable configuration
# Enable site
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/claude-relay /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
# Test configuration
sudo nginx -t
# Restart nginx
sudo systemctl restart nginx
4. Update service configuration
Modify your service configuration to listen only locally:
// config/config.js
module.exports = {
server: {
port: 3000,
host: '127.0.0.1' // Listen only locally, proxy through nginx
}
// ... other configurations
}
Security advantages:
- 🔒 Data Encryption: All API requests transmitted through HTTPS encryption
- 🛡️ Hide Ports: Don't directly expose service ports, reduce attack surface
- 🚀 Better Performance: nginx's static file serving and caching capabilities
- 📊 Access Logs: nginx provides detailed access logs and monitoring
💡 Usage Recommendations
Account Management
- Regular Checks: Check account status weekly, handle exceptions promptly
- Reasonable Allocation: Can assign different API keys to different people, analyze usage based on different API keys
Security Recommendations
- Use HTTPS: Strongly recommend configuring nginx reverse proxy and SSL certificate to ensure secure data transmission
- Regular Backups: Back up important configurations and data
- Monitor Logs: Regularly check exception logs
- Update Keys: Regularly change JWT and encryption keys
- Firewall Settings: Only open necessary ports (80, 443), hide direct service ports
🆘 What to Do When You Encounter Problems?
Self-troubleshooting
- Check Logs: Log files in
logs/directory - Check Configuration: Confirm configuration files are set correctly
- Test Connectivity: Use curl to test if API is normal
- Restart Service: Sometimes restarting fixes it
Seeking Help
- GitHub Issues: Submit detailed error information
- Read Documentation: Carefully read error messages and documentation
- Community Discussion: See if others have encountered similar problems
📄 License
This project uses the MIT License.
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🤝 Feel free to submit Issues for problems, welcome PRs for improvement suggestions