Claude Code and Vertex AI integration not working
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — bcherny
Activity 7 comments · opened Mar 3, 2025 · closed Mar 4, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bcherny, collaborator)
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I've enabled the APIs in Google Vertex AI studio and I'm able to make the following request:
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -d @request.json "https://us-east5-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/<my-project-id>/locations/us-east5/publishers/anthropic/models/claude-3-7-sonnet@20250219:streamRawPredict"and it gives back the appropriate response as per the input in request.json
I was trying to configure the Claude Code using 3rd party APIs
I have set the following env variables:
CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1
CLOUD_ML_REGION=us-east5
ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID=<my-project-id>However, in Claude Code, I keep getting:Credit balance too low · Add funds: https://console.anthropic.com/settings/billing
What can I do to configure Claude Code to use the Vertex API?
Note: I'm on @anthropic-ai/claude-code@0.2.29
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i am trying the same thing. added the config valued in the project's
.envfile but claude keeps using it's own API. tried with both Vertex and Bedrock configs:CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 // commentedCLOUD_ML_REGION=us-east5 // commentedANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID=id // commentedCLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK=1AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=myAccessKeyAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=theSecretAWS_REGION=us-west-2DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING=1i can see in Anthropic billing console my credit decreasing after each request
Can you double check that you're not setting
ANTHROPIC_MODELlocally? That will override things for 3P.@bcherny I don't have
ANTHROPIC_MODELset locally.Are you sure you're setting the env vars correctly? What happens if you directly do:
@bcherny I've set the env variables properly, you can see the screenshot below
<img width="801" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9cbc3803-59cc-48fe-91c2-7237cf447f05" />
However,
CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 CLOUD_ML_REGION=us-east5 ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID=id Claudeworks for me.I'm using zsh
/bin/zsh. Is there any chance Claude Code is trying to use bash/bin/bashinternally?I've set the env variables for both bash and zsh, and now it works for me.
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