Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?
by johnduhart on 4/21/2026, 10:36:24 PM
<a href="https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046725498592722972" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046725498592722972</a><p><a href="https://xcancel.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046725498592722972" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/204672549859272297...</a>
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mjzxwfx3qs2a
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by: rideontime
Anthropic’s “Head of Growth” claims this is a “test”: <a href="https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830</a><p>This does not explain the changes to documentation.
4/21/2026, 11:21:04 PM
by: IgorPartola
What a way to ruin goodwill with the very community they are trying to court. I am on a Pro subscription to use with Claude Code, but it sounds like the days of using it are numbered. I guess I will be trying the latest offering from OpenAI and Google tomorrow and if they are satisfactory I might just switch. Moreover, I have been recommending Anthropic's API solutions up to now to friends and clients. Based on this dumb move I will be now starting with this anecdote and then giving a very hedged recommendation.<p>Realistically the future of all this is that open models become good enough that LLM as a service becomes a commodity with a race to the bottom in terms of cost. Given where we are today I can easily see open weight models in 2-3 years making Anthropic and OpenAI irrelevant for everyday development work (I justify this like so: if my coding agent is 10x smarter than I am, how would I understand if it did all the right things? I want someone of roughly my intelligence for coding. I can see use cases for like independent pharma work or some such where supergenius level intelligence is justified, but for coding ability for mere mortals to reason about the code is probably more important).
4/22/2026, 12:19:29 AM
by: zmmmmm
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.<p>Makes me curious about the internal thinking. One theory being they are in a capacity crisis and knocking Pro users off Claude Code is an emergency brake getting pulled. But an opposite theory is it's a revenue move and they think they have the lock in to pull it off. Especially if they are building up to IPO.<p>Interestingly the Team subscription which is still $20/month/seat still includes Claude Code. But you need minimum 5 seats. So it could be a way to force people off individual plans and into enterprise plans where possibly things scale better for them, especially IPO/wise. When one user wants it in a company, probably they go buy 5 seats.
4/21/2026, 11:16:10 PM
by: maxall4
I have a Claude Pro tier subscription; Claude Code, as of right now, is still functional for me. If Anthropic does boot Pro-tier users off Claude Code, I will be cancelling my subscription.
4/21/2026, 11:21:23 PM
by: SwellJoe
Why would you even want a Claude subscription if not for Claude Code? Anthropic is obviously the best for programming, but probably nowhere else. Seems like a good way to onboard people to the Claude Code experience...everyone who's working seriously with it needs Opus, anyway. But, maybe that's the rub, if the Pro plan includes no Opus usage (which I think has always been the case), you might have a worse impression of Claude Code. Codex 5.4 is better than Sonnet, but not better than Opus.<p>I dunno, I'm no business genius, but I think we're starting to see these companies try to find ways to make money instead of losing it.
4/21/2026, 11:15:43 PM
by: redrix
Next they’ll slowly reduce how much CC usage you can get out of the $100 Max plan, then introduce a new $300 “Max Plus” plan with “40x” usage.<p>“You asked, and we listened: Introducing Max Plus, our biggest plan yet, designed for those…” blah blah
4/21/2026, 11:11:22 PM
by: dzink
Claude has become practically unusable for Pro users in the past few days. The Opus 4.7 blew through an entire 5 hour limit in one question and didn’t even finish answering it. Zero value delivered.<p>Opus 4.6 is giving 2, maybe 3 questions before blowing through the Pro 5 hour limit as well. We are forced to use Sonnet which makes the same mistakes over and over and then to start trying with other companies. To make matters worse, it reuses old code as we try to survive between credit expiry so it re-introduced issues into the code with the limited credits, that we had already fixed on our own and with other models.<p>Anthropic in just a few days has gotten me to try GLM 5.1, the new Kimi, and back to OpenAI. OpenAI also seems to introduce new bugs without being carefully micromanaged. The advantage Claude has is that the models are more careful and can refactor code instead of leading to bloat as they go. But the throttling happening now is breaking things and making the entire subscription unusable. I really hope they fix it soon.
4/21/2026, 11:58:33 PM
by: evmaki
I would love someone to play devil's advocate against this perspective:<p>While these tools stand to enable the democratization of productive capability in software engineering and other tasks (creating a renaissance for solopreneurs, let's say), what seems more likely to actually happen is that entrenched capital will become the only player with real access to this "knowledge as a utility" (was it Altman who called it that?).<p>We already see this playing out in two fronts: 1) the gradual reduction of services and 2) the DRAM market, where local-first tools (i.e., potential disruptors of the emerging "knowledge monopoly" created by the big AI firms) are being stifled by supply shortages. How many promising small-to-medium-sized competitors are being snuffed out of existence (or never starting) due to the insanity of the DRAM/storage/CPU (soon) markets?<p>The currently-subsidized access that we have to the big Opus-like models will, in parallel, be gradually be taken away until only the big players can afford it. And in the end what we will have is hyper-productive skeleton crews at a few consolidated firms performing (or selling expensive access to) basically all of the knowledge labor for society, with very little potential for disruption due to the hardware and "knowledge" scarcity engineered (in part, maybe) by this monopoly.<p>Not necessarily a closely held belief – just a hunch – which is why I want to see what parts of the picture I might be missing.
4/22/2026, 12:13:37 AM
by: rafael-lua
I'm out of the loop. Do you guys use Claude subscriptions for Claude Code rather than just pay-as-you-go API keys? Is it cost related?
4/22/2026, 12:28:42 AM
by: hgoel
The only thing they'd need to do to enjoy the positive PR from the DoD spat is shut up and improve product.<p>Even the downtime would've been fine (as GitHub shows). Instead they're pissing it all away by letting employees make random announcements on random platforms.
4/22/2026, 12:24:02 AM
by: jareds
All I want is a reasonably priced subscription combining both coding AI and general AI in a single bill for non professional use that allows me to opt out of my data being used for training. Google limits history to 72 hours if you opt out of training even if you pay them $20 a month which rules them out for me. I guess I'm going to try the $20 chat gpt plan. At this point I am wondering if I need to accept that were moving to a token based model and get comfortable with opencode and manually switching models.
4/21/2026, 11:28:20 PM
by: eaf7e281
Note that some companies, like Amazon, purchased and ran the Claude on their own hardware. They didn't change the model parameters during the Claude Opus 4.6 karma.<p>If Anthropic continues to getting worse, try Amazon Kiro and other companies that run Claude on their own hardware.<p>It might be expensive and have a worse experience compared to Claude's code, but at least the model itself is the "original flavor."<p>These days, it's hard to ask for much.
4/22/2026, 12:19:07 AM
by: prdonahue
Hmm, we just bought my wife an annual subscription at the Pro tier, largely to use Claude Code. Wonder if she'd be grandfathered in or if we'll need to get a refund.
4/21/2026, 11:55:51 PM
by: makingstuffs
It’s seems like there are a lot fishy smells coming from the timing of the mythos announcement and the reports of issues with casual users. Combine that with the mass rejection of 4.7 it kinda seems like they are burning their ‘non research’ users in order to keep the Mythos users warm.<p>I could be connecting unrelated dots here, but it sure as hell seems quite coincidental to me.
4/22/2026, 12:16:21 AM
by: rob
<a href="https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724846604963924" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724846604963924</a><p>(Head of Growth @AnthropicAI)<p>> When we launched Max a year ago, it didn't include Claude Code, Cowork didn't exist, and agents that run for hours weren't a thing. Max was designed for heavy chat usage, that's it.<p>Is there a wager that this is 100% foreshadowing Claude Code will be removed from the $100-200/month Max plans soon and go to something like API-only? Or only available on like a new $500-1,000/month plan? Restrict the $100-200/month ones to Claude.ai (website) or Claude desktop app only?<p>Either way, doesn't seem good to say it's a small test and then start justifying it in this direction.
4/21/2026, 11:33:07 PM
by: trashface
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.
4/22/2026, 12:12:51 AM
by: johnduhart
Pricing page reflects this: <a href="https://claude.com/pricing#individual-features" rel="nofollow">https://claude.com/pricing#individual-features</a>
4/21/2026, 10:36:24 PM
by: mastazi
ANthropic never wanted my money anyway... they don't allow work + personal accounts to have the same phone number. I had to close my personal account otherwise I could not complete onboarding at work.<p>So I pay for Codex instead.
4/21/2026, 11:45:29 PM
by: nozzlegear
Unrelated to the Claudge Code change, I'm fascinated by people on Twitter and Bluesky posting screenshots of the answers they get from AI like it's an original source of information. It's as if some users see the AI as an authority, and derive some kind of social capital from that authority. For example, in the OP's linked Bluesky thread, one person replies with "Fin says it’s included with Pro" and attached a screenshot from "Fin AI Agent" (which I haven't heard of) that claims Claude Code is still available on the Pro tier. Is that valuable? Personally I don't trust what any AI has to say, especially when the subject <i>is currently in flux</i>.<p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mattgreenrocks.bsky.social/post/3mk246pup3c2k" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/mattgreenrocks.bsky.social/post/3mk...</a><p>Another example, I recently saw two people over on Twitter posting LLM responses at each other in a bitter argument about Vercel's security breach. They made no attempt to pretend they'd formulated the ripostes themselves, it was just screenshotting one-sided conversations... What's the point? They could've saved themselves the trouble by spawning two LLMs, naming them "John Doe" and "Fred Doe", then telling them to argue and post the name of the winner.<p>Disclaimer: I don't use Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., so maybe it's not that deep.
4/22/2026, 12:07:09 AM
by: syntaxing
With GitHub and Anthropic reducing subscription features, Chinese providers are looking more and more tempting.
4/21/2026, 11:28:30 PM
by: incognito124
Dup: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477</a>
4/21/2026, 11:13:14 PM
by: geetee
The rug pull is coming
4/21/2026, 11:44:31 PM
by: Wowfunhappy
Is Claude Code actually useful on the Pro plan?<p>I remember when they first added Claude Code to Pro—it was limited to Max initially—and my first thought was that it seemed kind of stupid, because at one fifth of my current limit, I would be hitting walls all the time...
4/21/2026, 11:57:41 PM
by: quantum_state
Claude Code started to suck since a couple of weeks ago. I want my money back!
4/22/2026, 12:17:16 AM
by: bhhaskin
And this is why local AI is going to be the future.
4/21/2026, 11:38:03 PM
by: quux
I just bought my brother 6 months of pro so he could use Claude code. How do I request a refund
4/22/2026, 12:08:04 AM
by: Jarred
From Amol, who is the Head of Growth:<p>> For clarity, we're running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected.<p><a href="https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830</a>
4/21/2026, 11:29:18 PM
by: jareds
How long until the $10 Github Copilot subscription goes away? That was a great deal for my limited personal programming. The only reason I switched from it to Claude was to get coding and general ai in a single bill.
4/21/2026, 11:38:48 PM
by: jhack
Are compute resources so tight they’d want to make their products as unappealing as possible on purpose?
4/21/2026, 11:26:13 PM
by: brandonmarkus
Anthropic NEED to get better at communicating with their customers. The most meaningful updates we get on changes come from employees on X. It's unprofessional and unsustainable.
4/21/2026, 11:42:40 PM
by: sriku
<a href="https://claude.com/product/claude-code" rel="nofollow">https://claude.com/product/claude-code</a> seems to say it is included in Pro plan.
4/21/2026, 11:39:34 PM
by: xkcd-sucks
Oh FFS claude code is the only reason I have a pro claude subscription. I don't even use my personal subscription all that much after spending all day with claude/bedrock at work. I will absolutely cancel my pro subscription and continue to use local / Codex if claude code stops working.<p>I realize this duplicates a lot of sentiment already in this thread but anyone here with pull at Anthropic please understand it will undo a lot of the goodwill that made Claude so successful in the first place.
4/21/2026, 11:29:07 PM
by: gpm
Simultaneous with GitHub copilot dropping support for the Opus models in their $10/month plan...
4/21/2026, 11:18:32 PM
by: throwaway85825
Frontier LLMs are not going to be economically viable when the free money runs out and they're expected to turn a profit.
4/21/2026, 11:44:29 PM
by: OJFord
New sign-ups only or affecting current subscriptions too?
4/21/2026, 11:17:33 PM
by: KarlMertin
<a href="https://claude.com/product/claude-code" rel="nofollow">https://claude.com/product/claude-code</a> - scroll to "Get started with Claude Code" and it's still lsited in the pro plan.
4/21/2026, 10:44:52 PM
by: primer42
So this is why they allowed Claude code to be used for open claw again - cuz code is going to more expensive customers
4/21/2026, 11:25:49 PM
by: Aurornis
Claude Code still works on Pro plans as of right now.<p>The Anthropic website has become inconsistent. Some places say Claude Code is included in the Pro plan, other pages don't.
4/21/2026, 11:07:18 PM
by: jerrygenser
so if you pick max-5x or mx-20x than pro... are you getting 0 now?
4/21/2026, 10:59:30 PM
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4/21/2026, 11:22:49 PM
by: colechristensen
I assume this has to do with the $20 tier now running out of provisioned tokens so quickly as to be not particularly useful, giving users a bad experience.<p>The million token context + reduced caching period + new models using more tokens made this a probably unpopular but perhaps unavoidable development.<p>There's a hard problem here balancing costs and experience. I'm afraid despite the bad experience for people that this is necessary and $20/month was just too big a loss to sustain.
4/21/2026, 11:16:09 PM
by: kelsey98765431
i cancelled cursor about 10 minutes ago and i'll cancel claude too
4/21/2026, 11:14:04 PM
by: amazingamazing
I was told Claude code was profitable on all subscriptions. Lol, turns out maybe you can be more profitable.
4/22/2026, 12:17:16 AM
by: edzitron
<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/</a> wrote it up. And relatively dry too!
4/21/2026, 11:08:17 PM
by: christophilus
I feel like Anthropic has managed to burn good will faster than anyone I’ve seen since Elon Musk.
4/21/2026, 11:39:29 PM
by: xdennis
The "5x" and "20x" no longer make sense for Max. It's supposed to be 5 times the Pro limits. But if only Max 5x has access, then they need to renamed to "Max 1x" and "Max 4x".
4/21/2026, 11:32:25 PM
by: alaudet
The enshitification stage came quick.
4/22/2026, 12:10:53 AM
by: anarticle
Nice. Bye.
4/21/2026, 11:31:25 PM
by: skywhopper
See also <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1srzhd7/psa_claude_pro_no_longer_lists_claude_code_as_an/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1srzhd7/psa_claud...</a>
4/21/2026, 11:06:03 PM
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4/22/2026, 12:25:48 AM
by: techpulselab
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4/22/2026, 12:04:38 AM