Developers

Oct 13, 20269 min read

Claude Code on an Open Model, No Router: the Anthropic Messages API on Qwen3.8 27B, Measured

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requests of a session answered, once all five model variables were set

Oct 12, 20267 min read

Add an Open Model to 9Router as a Custom Provider: Setup and What We Measured

9Router puts one local endpoint in front of your coding tools and many model providers. Here is how to add an OpenAI-compatible API to it as a custom provider, with ParalonCloud and Qwen3.8 27B as the worked example, and what happened when Claude Code and opencode fixed a bug through it.

Sep 21, 20268 min read

OpenJev Is Live on an OpenAI-Compatible API: an Open Jev Alternative You Can Call Today

TypeSafe's Jev is hosted-only and behind a waitlist. OpenJev, the open NLI cross-encoder built on Qwen3.5, is now served on ParalonCloud behind POST /v1/classify: a label and calibrated probabilities per input, 3 ms per item in a batch, no generated text. Measured against a 27B LLM judge on the same pairs, with the vLLM recipe so you can run it yourself.

Sep 10, 20266 min read

Run Cline on Your Own LLM API: OpenAI-Compatible Setup for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI

Cline is one of the most-installed open-source coding agents for VS Code, and it lets you bring your own model. Here is the complete setup to point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, using ParalonCloud's inference API and Qwen 3.8 27B as the worked example: the extension, the Plan/Act modes, the CLI, what to put in every field of the model configuration, and what a session actually costs.

Sep 10, 20266 min read

Rent a GPU From Inside Cline: the ParalonCloud MCP Server in VS Code

Cline can now rent an NVIDIA GPU for you, wait for it to come up, hand you the JupyterLab link and stop it when you are done, without leaving the editor. Here is the complete setup of the @paraloncloud/mcp MCP server in Cline, the six tools it adds, a real session, what keeps an agent from spending your credits by accident, and what it costs per minute.

Aug 22, 20268 min read

Image Generation API: Z-Image-Turbo, OpenAI-Compatible, ~5 Seconds per Image

Our inference API now generates images. Z-Image-Turbo — open-weight, Apache 2.0 — is live behind an OpenAI-compatible /v1/images/generations endpoint, running on consumer GPUs in our network. Free to try, $0.003 per image after. Try it from curl, Python, or straight from our Discord.

Aug 20, 20264 min read

Qwen 3.8 27B Is Live: a Free, OpenAI-Compatible Vision LLM API

Our inference API can now see. Qwen 3.8 27B — natively multimodal, 32k context, tool calling — is live on the ParalonCloud API, with a free trial key. Send screenshots and images through the same OpenAI-compatible endpoint you already use.

Jun 12, 20266 min read

Run OpenClaw on a Free LLM API (Full Qwen 3.6 Setup)

OpenClaw is free — the model behind it usually isn't. Here's the complete openclaw.json custom-provider setup to run OpenClaw on ParalonCloud's free OpenAI-compatible inference API, with Qwen 3.6 27B doing the thinking and an honest guide to living inside a 32k context window.

Jun 11, 20264 min read

Run pi, the Open-Source Coding Agent, on Your Own LLM API

pi is an open-source coding agent in the spirit of Claude Code — except you choose the model behind it. Here's the full setup to point pi at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, using ParalonCloud's inference API and Qwen 3.6 27B as the worked example.