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Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by HDThoreaun »

Wobbles42 wrote: post #234
eru wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Computers and anything computer related have historically been dropping in prices like crazy year after year (with only very occasional hiccups). What makes you think this will stop now?

It has stopped. Demand is now rising faster than supply in memory, storage and GPUs. We see vendors reducing memory in new smart phones in 2026 vs 2025 for example. At least for the moment falling consumer tech hardware prices are over.

Memory and storage has always been very cyclical. This is nothing new

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by piokoch »

miroljub wrote: post #380

Anthropic is dead. Long live open platforms and open-weight models. Why would I need Claude if I can get Minimax, Kimi, and Glm for the fraction of the price?

To get comparable results you need to run those models on at least prosumer hardware and it seems that two beef-up Mac Studios are the minimum. Which means that instead of buying this hardware you can purchase Claude, Codex and many other subscriptions for next 20 years.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by arjunchint »

Honestly seeing throttling of AI usuage across all providers:

- Google reduced AI Studio's free rate limits by 1/10th

- Perplexity imposing rate limits, card filing to continue free subscriptions

- Now Anthropic as well

There has been a false narrative that AI will get cheaper and more ubiquitous, but model providers have been stuck in a race for ever more capabilities and performance at higher costs.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by stavros »

Loic wrote: post #369
bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

They put no limits on the API usage, as long as you pay. Here, they put limits on the "under-cover" use of the subscription. If they can provide a relatively cheap subscription against the direct API use, this is because they can control the stuff end-to-end, the application running on your system (Claude Code, Claude Desktop) and their systems. As you subscribe to these plans, this is the "contract", you can use onl…

I don't see how it's fair. If I'm paying for usage, and I'm using it, why should Anthropic have a say on which client I use?

I pay them $100 a month and now for some reason I can't use OpenCode? Fuck that.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by raffkede »

hrpnk wrote: post #375
raffkede wrote: post #225

At this point, where Kimi K2.5 on Bedrock with a simple open source harness like pi is almost as good the big labs will soon have to compete for users,... openai seems to know that already? While anthropic bans bans bans

Do you know by any chance if Bedrock custom model import also works with on-demand use, without any provisioned capacity? I'm still puzzled why they don't offer all qwen3 models on Bedrock by default.

I see a lot of Qwen3 in us west 2 And i have no experience with custom model on bedrock

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by lvl155 »

People on here are acting like school children over this. It’s their product that they spent billions to make. Yet here we are complaining about why they should let you use third party products specifically made to compete against Anthropic.

You can still simply pay for API.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by miroljub »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #326
bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

Can you sell ads via api? If answer is no then this “feature” would be at the bottom of the list

Of course they can [1].

Though, in this case, you get free API access to the model.

[1]: https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2017063228094709771

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by stavros »

mosselman wrote: post #392
ifwinterco wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opus 4.6 genuinely seems worse than 4.5 was in Q4 2025 for me. I know everyone always says this and anecdote != data but this is the first time I've really felt it with a new model to the point where I still reach for the old one. I'll give GPT 5.3 codex a real try I think

I asked Codex 5.3 and Opus 4.6 to write me a macos application with a certain set of requirements. Opus 4.6 wrote me a working macos application. Codex wrote me a html + css mockup of a macos application that didn't even look like a macos application at all. Opus 4.5 was fine, but I feel that 4.6 is more often on the money on its implementations than 4.5 was. It is just slower.

I asked both to help me with a hardware bug. Codex kept trying things, being sure of what the problem is every time, and every time making it worse.

Opus went off and browsed my dependencies for ten minutes, and came back and solved the problem firs try.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by lvl155 »

chickensong wrote: post #231

Your core customers are clearly having a blast building their own custom interfaces, so obviously the thing to do is update TOS and put a stop to it! Good job lol. I know, I know, customer experience, ecosystem, gardens, moats, CC isn't fat, just big boned, I get it. Still a dick move. This policy is souring the relationship, and basically saying that Claude isn't a keeper. I'll keep my eye-watering sub for now becau…

So basically you are saying Anthropic models are indispensable but you are too cheap to pay for it.

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by miroljub »

sbarre wrote: post #328
bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

Every garden eventually becomes a walled garden once enough people are inside.

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