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

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Post by zaptheimpaler » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

This just made me gamble on a yearly subscription for Pro, hoping they will grandfather in existing customers..

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

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Post by skeledrew » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

_--__--__ wrote: post #72

skeledrew wrote: post #61

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> Because 'claude -p' is a backdoor for any third party client to use subsidized token pricing Wasn't this obvious from day 1 though? Can't see how anyone could've missed that.

It was obvious, which is why their earlier decision to attempt to restrict 3p access was hugely unpopular. They're now trying to walk that back but on the condition that those users need to be on the higher plan.

Now they're hurting their popularity with those who actually don't mind using Claude Code. I've been quietly swallowing a lot of performance degradation over the past few weeks as I get the resource crunch, but I'm definitely not going back to copy-pasting between browser and editor. And I have no intention of upgrading to Max or doing per token usage.

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

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Post by hannahstrawbrry » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

jmcodes wrote: post #64

dd8601fn wrote: post #53

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Do they have their own cli agents or just the api inference services?

I don't think they do but you can always use OpenCode or Pi Agent.

very easy to configure claude code to route to GLM as well.

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

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Post by operatingthetan » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

robertkarl wrote: post #98

operatingthetan wrote: post #90

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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.

Minimax coding plan is $10 a month for roughly 3x the $20 Claude Pro CLI usage allowed. That would be good place to start. 200k context though.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

boogerbuttcheek wrote: post #54

vicchenai wrote: post #38

Saw this coming eventually. $20/month for autonomous agents running 24/7 was clearly not sustainable at API pricing. The part that's surprising is there's still no official announcement - just a quiet page edit.

Choosing to do it quietly instead of letting everyone know is actually not that surprising.

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

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Post by hank2000 » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

robertkarl wrote: post #98

operatingthetan wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

how was it? I'm doing this today

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

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Post by papichulo2023 » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

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.

Where I work. Medium size, base in Europe company. It is paying over 1800 per dev in AI tools. Home users stand no chance.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

hannahstrawbrry wrote: post #94

strangattractor wrote: post #65

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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…

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

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Post by jamietanna » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #16

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.

Also note that they are letting OpenClaw be used again with `claude -p`, so a partial reversal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853799 for the curious