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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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Post by r0fl »

alexandra_au wrote: post #288
zmmmmm wrote: post #194

It would signal quite a fundamental pivot if their "Pro" plan excludes coding but supports personal productivity (Cowork). Quite surprising given most people attribute Anthropic's success to their elevation of coding above everything else. To have casual users locked out of that would be a major hit you would think. Makes me curious about the internal thinking. One theory being they are in a capacity crisis and knock…

It's possible that Anthropic sees that the loss of $20/mo customers could be offset by the customers purchasing the $100/mo plan

This is a market where hyper growth is important

Loss of customers is the wrong direction

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

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Post by 9cb14c1ec0 »

daemonologist wrote: post #254
zmmmmm wrote: post #194

It would signal quite a fundamental pivot if their "Pro" plan excludes coding but supports personal productivity (Cowork). Quite surprising given most people attribute Anthropic's success to their elevation of coding above everything else. To have casual users locked out of that would be a major hit you would think. Makes me curious about the internal thinking. One theory being they are in a capacity crisis and knock…

I have to assume they're compute constrained and thus need to either raise prices or cut their lowest-margin products (which amounts to more or less the same thing, but with different optics), or turn away new users. My assumption is that people are able to very easily saturate Pro with Claude Code and therefore even though the quotas are lower (more than proportionally) the utilization of those quotas is higher enou…

I think there is a definite possibility that they aren't compute constrained, but rather trying to improve a sorry cash flow situation before IPO.

Of course, I don't have real insight into available compute, but the vibe slope seems to have dropped a bit, at the same time as new GPUs are being shoved into datacenters as fast as possible.

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

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Post by Aurornis »

subscribed wrote: post #172
poetril wrote: post #12

I’ve got nearly 10 months left on my yearly subscription, I wonder what that means for my access.

Same. I'm not a dev but I use CC a few times in a week and it's been a great help. However, my company paid for my annual subscription, so maybe I'll ask our lawyers for advice - the only reason they paid for this was my access to CC and with my use the next tier wouldn't make sense, AND no one will expect Anthropic to not nerf it too.

Before you have lawyers look at it, wait until you’re actually impacted. Nothing has been removed from existing subscriptions yet and their employees Tweeted that existing subscriptions aren’t impacted.

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

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Post by inquisitive-me »

Jesus Christ, it’s literally going to become too big of a risk to depend on Anthropic.

As someone who tries to manage usage for a small team they just added Claude Code to the Standard Team seat now they are removing it!?

Not to mention that they will ban your entire organization from a bot deciding you violated their TOS with no communication and no way to contact anyone to understand what happened.

If this is real we are switching to OpenAI or Gemini it is not worth all this non sense

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

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Post by Rekindle8090 »

ppetty wrote: post #120

Wonder where this leaves folks who paid the annual rate? Here’s what Claude said: https://claude.ai/share/1a4293bd-b2d4-41b7-a887-eb42b3ae8b6e “ The standard answer here is no — Anthropic does not typically refund the unused portion of annual plans , and annual subscribers won’t see prorated refunds, retaining access for the full remaining period instead. That said, your situation is a bit different — you’re not just…

Just do a chargeback its an easy W. I dont see why you'd want to continue doing business with anthropic after a change to a 1 year contract out of cycle

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

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Post by xiphias2 »

charliebwrites wrote: post #265
rideontime wrote: post #209

Anthropic’s “Head of Growth” claims this is a “test”: https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830 This does not explain the changes to documentation.

Just checked. I continue to have Claude Code with my Pro plan This is concerning though. If I lose my current usage allotment at this price point I will likely switch to codex

That's what Claude is testing I guess (people often don't do what they say they do when it comes to pricing)

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

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Post by F7F7F7 »

trashface wrote: post #320

I use it on Pro and was just thinking today, there is no way $20 covers the cost of it. But I'm long term unemployed and can't afford any higher tier, so if they drop it guess I'll have to find a non-anthropic solution somehow.

Sonnet in the Claude Code harness is hard to replicate out of the box. That vertical integration is not easily replaceable but by no means impossible...

OpenCode and their Go plan will get you close if you're willing to put in the config work.

For when you do need the larger models Fireworks has a pretty generous 'Pass' that comes out to about $7 a week for some of the larger bleeding edge models.

Other than that Codex's $20 plan is still somewhat valuable though they keep reducing usage. Google's $20 plan will get you some Opus usage in Antigravity and a generous amount of Gemini. Not sure how long that will last as they've been tweaking pricing and planning language recently too.

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