You can cancel your subscription, there are like 5 competitors you can pick instead and anthropic offers an API plan where you can find out how many tokens circus tools like claws really consume compared to coding tasks.
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
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Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#32I received it too. I wonder if they sent this to all pro/max subscribers or only those who they’ve flagged as having used a third party harness.
FWIW: I did not receive it, and have never used my subscription outside of first party Claude tools. I was, however, able to claim the extra usage credit. Interestingly, it looks like I haven't received a non-receipt email from them since August 2025.
How/where were you able to do that?
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#33The solution as usual is open source.
For example...
We recently moved a very expensive sonnet 4.6 agent to step-3.5-flash and it works surprising well. Obviously step-3.5-flash is nowhere near the raw performance of sonnet but step works perfectly fine for this case.
Another personal observation is that we are most likely going to see a lot of micro coding agent architectures everywhere. We have several such cases. GPT and Claude are not needed if you focus the agent to work on specific parts of the code. I wrote something about this here: https://chatbotkit.com/reflections/the-rise-of-micro-coding-...
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#34And so it begins...
Drug dealer got them hooked, now time to charge by the ounce.
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#35The solution as usual is open source. For example... We recently moved a very expensive sonnet 4.6 agent to step-3.5-flash and it works surprising well. Obviously step-3.5-flash is nowhere near the raw performance of sonnet but step works perfectly fine for this case. Another personal observation is that we are most likely going to see a lot of micro coding agent architectures everywhere. We have several such cases.…
> The solution as usual is open source.
> Obviously step-3.5-flash is nowhere near the raw performance of sonnet
I feel like these two statements conflict with each other.
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#36That's why I am using Codex. I slightly prefer Claude in terms of code quality, but it's close, but not being able to use my subscription with other CLIs and apps ruins Claude for me.
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#37Is anyone even getting anything out of a $20/mo sub for Anthropic?
I'm doing a side-by-side with GPT-5.4 for $20/mo and Sonnet for $20/mo and I can tell you that all my 5 hour tokens are eaten in 30 minutes with Claude. I still haven't used my tokens for OpenAI.
Code quality seems fine on both. Building an app in Go
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW: I did not receive it, and have never used my subscription outside of first party Claude tools. I was, however, able to claim the extra usage credit. Interestingly, it looks like I haven't received a non-receipt email from them since August 2025.
How/where were you able to do that?
Top of https://claude.ai/settings/usage
edit: see Boris' tweet about it https://x.com/bcherny/status/2040206443094446558
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#40What about when you use Claude agent SDK on your laptop?
Extra usage is very sneaky you don't get any notice that you are using extra usage and could end up with unnecessary costs in case you would have preferred to wait an hour or so.