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

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Post by try-working » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

operatingthetan wrote: post #90

jmcodes wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Kimi K3 in July-September is the big one.

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

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Post by robertkarl » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

hank2000 wrote: post #107

robertkarl wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I will report back... but I have to recommend this comment on a post about Qwen 3.6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843466 by daemonologist

it goes into detail about llama-server args; quants to try; and layer/kv cache splits. I plan to try the techniques there.

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

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Post by alwillis » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

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…

> I can't understand removing Claude Code from $20

Not according to their webpage: "Claude Code is included in your Pro plan. Perfect for short coding sprints in small codebases with access to both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7." [1]

[1]: https://claude.com/product/claude-code

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

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Post by csullivannet » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

sourabhv wrote: post #89

It's still included here https://claude.com/product/claude-code

Maybe they're putting out a weather balloon to test sentiment. That way when they're caught they can just point at the other page to say it was just a mistake.

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

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Post by zormino » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

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…

I think removing Claude Code from the $20 tier is a terrible idea, I never would've gone from nothing right into the $100/200 tier. The $20 plan let me get my feet wet and see how good it could be, and in less than a week I was on the $100 plan.

I think they need to at least have a 1 month introductory rate for the max plan at $20, or devs that decide to try out agentic coding just won't go to Anthropic.

That leads to downstream impacts, like when a company is deciding which AI coding tools to provide and the feedback management hears everyone is already used to (e.x.) Codex, then Anthropic starts losing the enterprise side of things.

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

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Post by barbazoo » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

ykl wrote: post #125

At least for me Claude Code is still working on my Pro plan. I don't know if that's because the change simply hasn't propagated all the way through their systems yet (the change is now up on the main Claude pricing page and on their support pages, but not on the Claude Code landing page yet), or if it's because existing plans are grandfathered in, or what. In general Anthropic seems to be pretty bad at clearly commun…

How long until OpenAI remove Codex from their cheap plan?

Should we instead use a generic coding agent with a particular model and just pay per token?

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

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Post by Yizahi » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

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…

LLM monsters are deeply unprofitable, going by the industry hearsay (which is the only thing we have, given ultra secrecy of the LLM corporations). The only two LLM companies which disclosed their finances without lies, were two Chinese corporations and they, unsurprisingly, were deeply in red.

Remember the old saying about boiling a frog? LLM corporations need to make most of their users pay hundreds per month, asap. This is Anthropic increasing temperature regulator under the pot just a tiny little bit. Not the first and not the last time.

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

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Post by angry_octet » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #101

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

Please report back if they send you a Dear John email.

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

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Post by adam_th » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

operatingthetan wrote: post #62

elschneider wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is one of the most civil disagreements I've ever seen on the internet and I intend to start using this myself

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

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Post by eleventen » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

alwillis wrote: post #143

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…

> I can't understand removing Claude Code from $20 Not according to their webpage: "Claude Code is included in your Pro plan. Perfect for short coding sprints in small codebases with access to both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7." [1] [1]: https://claude.com/product/claude-code

There are clear contradictions across their marketing site. As others have pointed out, it's being removed from some help articles and the pricing chart now shows it revoked. Confusing signals, but they seem to be changing all pages in this direction and haven't updated that one yet.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854478