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

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

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I had a similar ride, but disagree with your conclusion. Opus 4.7 is so incredibly powerful from my experience, that nothing else really matters and I think at Anthropic they know it. People will pay a lot for access to this model.

>Opus 4.7 is so incredibly powerful from my experience, I'm not challenging your opinion, but this is an outlier in the general current public opinion about it.

Yea, I've seen a lot of whining online, because its more expensive, but from the interactions I've had I'd say, that it's well worth it. To me it feels like another step change, similar to when 4.5 was introduced. Definitely a different beast.

EDIT: it is also surprising to me that everyone seems to believe the people at Anthropic are simply incompetent and recklessly risking their good reputation, while very few consider the possible good reasons they might have for taking such drastic measures. And I don't think it's because of financial pressures in their case

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

#93
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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

"free of this drama" and free is great option for companies, of course most use API billing but let's not forget that there are places that budget is limited and being good enough is just perfect.

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

#94

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…

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FWIW their "Fin" agent on their web page tells me: "Claude Code is not included in the standard Pro plan. It's only available with premium seats on Team and Enterprise plans. However, Pro plans do include improved coding capabilities through our GitHub integration, which lets you connect code repositories directly to Claude. You also get access to code execution and file creation features in the Claude apps. For the full Claude Code terminal experience, you'd need to upgrade to a Team or Enterprise plan with premium seats"

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

#95
I posted this question two weeks ago: "What is your plan when the AI you have implemented throughout your company changes the results you've come to trust?" (https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/anthropic_claude_code...).

Since then, I had to add:

"or won't let you log in?": https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257

"or makes stuff up?": https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and...

"or when it's down?": https://status.claude.com/incidents/6jd2m42f8mld

"or when you get banned?": https://bannedbyanthropic.com/

"or installs spyware?": https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

And this is all exclusively about Anthropic. It's insane. On any other tech, there would be a consensus to wait until it's stable, but not AI - we go full throttle when it's AI.

Genuinely curious how people who have implemented this in serious companies are answering these questions, because my answer is to keep it the fuck out.

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

#96
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Makes sense. It is over for the little guy - home enthusiasts and vibe coders. Too many of them saturating resources for Max users. IF you cannot afford few hundred dollars subscription go out and breathe fresh air. But if you can, watch where the ball is rolling - few thousand dollars subscriptions and even less programmers.

Hear HN tell of it, Claude pays for itself 3× over.

Something tells me congitively it's making us misjudge how productive it's making us.

It's clearly massively increasing output, but did the market already soak up all that productivity and now it's not compensated?

If your salary is 50k. And Claude makes you 2x as productive, why aren't you earning 100k?

Why is it anyone can't afford $200/mo if it's truely increasing worker productivity?

There seems to be a paradox here.

Personally I switched to Z.ai and GLM quite some time ago. I've not noticed any decrease in quality or quantity of my work.

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

#98
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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.

This was literally my task today, to try out Qwen 9B locally on my, albeit a bit memory-constrained at 18GB, macbook with pi or opencode. Before reading this update.

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

#99

It works for me at the moment on the pro plan. Is there a grace period until they enforce the new pricing?

I would hope that we'd be grandfathered in since we signed up with the expectation that we could use it in Claude Code. I could see where maybe that might lead to problems down the line where they do some kind of update and "forget" that people who signed up before a certain date were supposed to be grandfathered in.

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

#100
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Makes sense. It is over for the little guy - home enthusiasts and vibe coders. Too many of them saturating resources for Max users. IF you cannot afford few hundred dollars subscription go out and breathe fresh air. But if you can, watch where the ball is rolling - few thousand dollars subscriptions and even less programmers.

Truly makes no sense. I pay for the $200/month plan and end up using about $3k/month worth of API costs. I imagine that the only reason they haven’t cut me off is because my habits serve as good training data for them.

Guess they’ve decided to move in the direction of allocating compute primarily to power users and enterprise.

But power users are not a sticky customer base. I just bought the ChatGPT Pro plan and would immediately switch over if the model performance is better and/or I get more compute.

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