Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

Post by dboreham » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 12:55 AM UTC

ramoz wrote: post #53

Super confusing email. Not sure why I received. Am i to assume my account was flagged? I only use my subscription for Claude Code. UPDATE: reply on x Thariq @trq212 only flagged accounts, but you can still claim the credit

Post by dboreham » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #139

entropoem wrote: post #123

Anthropic and OpenAI are the clearest examples of why, in an organization of specialists, the experts themselves should not be the CEO or the final decision-maker once the company’s challenges extend beyond just the product. Just look at how Sam Altman has led OpenAI step by step to dominate—and choke out—Anthropic, a company founded by the group of engineers who were once part of the turmoil at OpenAI. Anthorpic's p…

An interesting... weird(?), take. I see Anthropic as being mostly a much more compelling option. They've avoided most negative backlash, they have a much higher percentage of paying users, plenty of enterprise contracts, etc. They avoided money pits like Sora. OpenAI seems to mostly be chasing the consumer market, but not doing great at it.

Post by muyuu » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

bitpush wrote: post #12

SkyPuncher wrote: post #9

Just give me a subscription tier where I’m not being blocked out every afternoon. Im hitting rate limits within 1:45 during afternoons. I can’t justify extra usage since it’s a variable cost, but I can justify a higher subscription tier.

even higher than $200? gosh, what are you doing to hit limits every day?

Post by mirashii » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #176

cowlby wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just discovered Pi Coding Agent and found that it's lean System Prompt + a tuned CLAUDE.md brought back a lot of the intelligence that Opus seemed to lose over the last month. Sucks to be pushed back to Claude Code with opaque system behavior and inconsistency. I bet many would rather pay more for stability than less for gambling on the model intelligence.

We use Pi at work (where we pay per token) and I’d love to use it personally too. From what I’ve read, nobody has been banned for using Pi yet… I wonder if Anthropic minds this much as long as it’s still human usage, or if they’re mostly focused on stamping out the autonomous harnesses. Unfortunately Pi is also what OpenClaw uses so it could easily get swept up in the enforcement attention. Or maybe I’ll just get a C…

Post by jmalicki » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC

goosejuice wrote: post #160

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #73

There seem to be a ton of people who don't understand how subscription services work. Every single one of them oversells their capacity. The power users that use the services a lot are subsidized by those who don't use it as much, which tends to be the vast majority of the user base. OpenClaw is an autonomous power user. The growing adoption of this walking attack surface was either going to A) cause the cost of Clau…

What you're saying is conceptually true for subscription services in general, but thats not why they are making this change. There's a 5 hour limit and a weekly limit. Those are hard token limits. Everyone on a plan pays for the max set of tokens in that plan. The limits manage capacity. The solution to that isn't a change of ToS, it's adjusting the limits. In other words this is about Anthropic subsidizing their own…