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Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by UncleOxidant » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

danielspace23 wrote: post #52

With GLM and Kimi getting better and better, with both still providing low-cost coding plans with higher quotas, and with how trivial it is to switch to them even within Claude CLI, I'm not sure what makes Anthropic think their users would rather pay 5x than switch to the competition.

I signed up for a 3 month plan with Z.ai so I could try out GLM-5.1. That was a few weeks ago when it was still $27 for 3 months, now it's $48 for 3 months. I hit limits at least as much as I do with Claude. I hit a weekly limit at one point and it said I wasn't going be able to get access again for 6 days so I must've somehow hit their weekly limit on day one of the week. And that after several timeouts.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by wasabinator » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

The enshitification intensifies.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by tayo42 » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

fg137 wrote: post #60

Larrikin wrote: post #13

Why is management at Anthropic trying so hard to ruin their reputation with developers? I missed the OpenClaw hype but it was something that kept me excited about my yearly subscription. It makes no sense to do one of the higher tier plans unless they are directly generating you money.

They care about developers from companies that are on their team/enterprise plans or using bedrock. Individual users barely matter. That's probably also the same group that decides to switch to Codex/Kimi/[whatever the hottest agent on any given day] on a whim, which Anthropic doesn't necessarily want to do business with.

> Individual users barely matter.

Individuals are the ones that push for new tools at work though.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by skeledrew » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

dv_dt wrote: post #22

I predict this may get reversed as it would be a huge opening for glm, kimi, and qwen offerings. I'd switch instead of upgrading to Max

Time to do research.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by wrxd » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

This is a risky move. I might have paid $20/month for my personal projects but the Max subscription is a bit steep.

Now I'm going to learn more about local models. I don't need to be as good as a frontier model. Good enough and free from all this drama is a win for me

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by strangattractor » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

EstanislaoStan wrote: post #73

strangattractor wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Claude often doesn't know the truth about Claude Code etc. lol

I got down voted by 4 people just for pointing that out. lol

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by Xunjin » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

dd8601fn wrote: post #47

Xunjin wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I thought MS was confused one on how to do pricing and business decisions.

Last I saw they have 21 products or services named Copilot. I think they still win the confusion prize.

We should have "The Copilot Award goes to..." Every year for the most confusing product name/lineup

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by operatingthetan » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #79

strangattractor wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The $20/month, which is now $17, should give you a hint? Models have a knowledge cut-off and will not reflect up to date information unless you trigger a web search.

That's just a billing trick.

>$17 Per month with annual subscription discount ($200 billed up front). $20 if billed monthly.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by sourabhv » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

It's still included here

https://claude.com/product/claude-code

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Post by operatingthetan » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

jmcodes wrote: post #55

robertkarl wrote: post #44

I don't think I've ever been on such a rollercoaster with a company's reputation in the developer space. I started in January on the $20 plan, essentially my first agentic AI programming. I quickly started hitting limits developing several apps at the same time. I went up to the $200 plan after seeing the value. After seeing my own issues with 4.6 and the mega-post on Github about declining metrics in a decent datase…

Same loved them, told my team about them, got them to switch off of cursor, now I'm telling them to swap to Codex. Anthropic really pissed me off with their harness crap. They're well within their rights but their communication over it was enough to get me to swap. I don't need extra hurdles when there's a perfectly valid alternative right there. They don't have the advantage they think they do.

I think we are inevitably heading to using the cheap Chinese models like Kimi, GLM, and Minimax for the bulk of engineering tasks. Within 3-6 months they will be at Opus 4.6 level.