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I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others. I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.
Viewed another way, the preferential pricing they're giving to Claude Code (and only Claude Code) is anticompetitive behavior that may be illegal.
I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others. I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.
They cannot actually do this as long as they keep Claude code open source. It is always going to be trivial to replicate how it sends requests in a third party tool.
I believe LLM providers should ultimately be utilities from a consumer perspective, like water suppliers. I own the faucet, washer, bathtub, and can switch suppliers at will. I’ve been working on a FOSS client for them for nearly three years. I hope that why the following is purely a factual distinction, not an excuse or an attempt to empathize. The difference between the other entities named and OpenCode is this: Op…
This is what the APIs are for. You pay for what you use, just like water.
It means that even though the cost depends on usage, you are billed at least a fixed minimum amount, regardless of how little water you actually use.
"The open source AI coding agent
Free models included or connect any model from any provider, including Claude, GPT, Gemini and more."
I don't understand what's the threat from a CLI which is useless without AI models and Anthropic could be one of them?
Claude Code as a product doesn’t use their pay per call API, but they’ve never sold the Claude Code endpoint as a cheaper way to access their API without paying for the normal API
I don't like it too, but it is what it is.
If I gave free water refils if you used my brand XYZ water bottle, you should not cry that you don't get free refills to your ABC branded bottle.
It may be scummy, but it does make sense.
While Anthropic can choose whatever tool uses their api or subscription but I never fully understood what they gain from having the subscription explicitly only work for claude code. Is the issue that it disincentivizes the use of their API?
They gave Claude Code a discount to make it work as a product.
The API is priced for all general purpose usage.
They never sold the Claude Code endpoint as a cheaper general purpose API. The stories about “blocking OpenCode” are getting kind of out of hand because they’d block any use of the Claude Code endpoint that wasn’t coming from their Claude Code tool.
I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others. I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.
> protect their investment Viewed another way, the preferential pricing they're giving to Claude Code (and only Claude Code) is anticompetitive behavior that may be illegal.