Stop paying $20/month for AI. Here's how to call Claude directly from your terminal for $2.

Every month, developers around the world pay $20 for ChatGPT Plus. That's $240/year for a chat interface.

Meanwhile, the actual Claude API is sitting there, waiting to be called with a single curl command.

Here's everything you need.

The simplest possible API call

curl -X POST https://api.simplylouie.com/v1/chat \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "claude-opus-4-5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain async/await in one paragraph"}], "max_tokens": 256 }'

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That's it. No SDK. No 47-step setup. Just HTTP.

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Node.js: add Claude to any project in 10 lines

const response = await fetch ( ' https://api.simplylouie.com/v1/chat ' , { method : ' POST ' , headers : { ' Authorization ' : ' Bearer ' + process . env .…