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

Anthropic should be increasing the value and services they offer not reducing it.

It’s the Apple model. Yes you pay a ton more. But my 2013 MacBook Pro 15 I got in college lasted 10 years and was still fine even when it was stolen. That’s what you pay for. You pay for a ton of built in apps and functionality and quality.

Arbitrarily removing things is customer and more importantantly good will hostile.

How about team plan standard customer?($25) I suppose its only natural it would follow suit if not already

I just bought my brother 6 months of pro so he could use Claude code. How do I request a refund

That’s too bad, I just purchased a one year pro plan for my dad just for him to play around with CC when he retires next week.

Bubble stress test, stage 1.

Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!

I can't even sign up for Max (last tried yesterday), their credit card processor has issues.

Does this mean that for enterprises using per-seat pricing, only the $100 premium seat gets access to claude code?

Claude Code started to suck since a couple of weeks ago. I want my money back!

Ahh couldn’t they vibe a solution to make CC cheaper?

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.

The million token context + reduced caching period + new models using more tokens made this a probably unpopular but perhaps unavoidable development.

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.

i cancelled cursor about 10 minutes ago and i'll cancel claude too

I was working in my biggest project in the last 3 years and i dont got mutch money and they go there and cut claude code from pro like wtf so why am i even paying for pro

It's going to be interesting seeing the AI companies gouge people who are incapable without it.

Funny, I just signed up for Pro a couple hours ago, to check how Claude Code works using this plan, instead of using my API keys.

I got rate limited after about 30mins of coding and was thinking, who the hell i going to work like this?

So they really seem to be running into extreme capacity issued now.

No particular opinion on this change, but generally pricing is a great way to separate dabblers from serious users. There isn’t a great deal of value in dabblers or what they produce, I imagine that training data isn’t worth much relative to the pro users. Similar pricing story with $100 yearly price for Apple developer accounts that people complain a lot about. The reality is if you’re serious about making something, these costs are pretty cheap.

The folks hurt most by this are serious people in developing countries and young people starting out. Occasionally a dabbler turns into a serious user but I imagine that’s far less likely than people wish it were.

The value to companies who make these changes is they don’t have low value users or low value contributions to worry about, which has its own not insignificant overhead. In the age of AI slop everywhere we’re likely to see a lot more attempts to separate the wheat from the chaff.

They have till morning to clean up this giant PR mess. I think people will leave for codex

Is this confirmed?!

This just lends more fuel to AI skeptics that this entire thing is a massive, unsustainable grift. The explanation only adds confusion and implicitly means that this was not a mistake. What is someone to take away from this?

That $20/month is not profitable? That Anthropic thinks that people are willing to pay a 400% markup without batting an eye? That Anthropic is desperately trying to clean up their burn rate? Why should we trust a company that can screw up basic PR this hard?

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

;) - use the Chinese models ;,>

I'm asking for a full refund of my plan via amex if this actually happens. Fuck them.

does anyone have recommendations on replacing CC with something else for around $20-30 / month?

Vibe coded ui bug?

That sucks, I guess I'll cancel my Claude account. Not paying 100 dollars. That's crazy

I'm very happy with GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.7 and Kimi K2.5. My wallet is happy, too.

This is more ethical than what they've been doing, trying to keep those subscribers but limiting them to the point it's become unusable. But it's also kneecaping themselves because they'll miss out on any innovation and hype coming out of the hobbyist community.

I feel like Anthropic has managed to burn good will faster than anyone I’ve seen since Elon Musk.

Wait. What is Anthropic without Claude? Serious question.

Their chat bot claims that pro users still have access to Claude Code.

Annoying, signed up for a personal pro account a couple of weeks ago. No way I’m going to spend $200 just for a few personal projects.

Huh? I just don't understand why they're doing this. Feels like shooting themselves in the foot, given that Claude's individual subscribers are a large part of who is introducing all their enterprise customers to them. Plus removing access is never good for public perception.

I'm not going on max. I barely hit 20% of my weekly limits on pro, to hell with Anthropic if they drop this plan.

And of course you never want the first tier it's included on because you need actual usage, so in reality you need Max 20x - the price of which I can't even see on the pricing page

Feels like a very strong chance that this is related to trying to find a way to navigate letting OpenClaw users on. https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269

The clusterfuck about the various pages not being all upgraded to reflect the same story...

I thought we now had advanced tools to which we could ask to do things like: "Remove all mention of Claude Code in the Pro, but not in the Pro Max plan".

But apparently the CGI-days called and asked the webmaster to manually edit .html files one by one?

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".

Trying to chat with "fin" is like trying to argue with a bowl of congealed oatmeal.

Me: Why is your website saying Claude Code is not included in Claude Pro subscriptions?

"Fin", the slow, dopey AI agent: That’s confusing, but it usually comes down to what “Claude Code” means in that context. Claude Pro does include Claude Code (the Code tab in the desktop app, and Claude Code access for individuals).

What Pro does not include is API access via the Claude Console. Those are separate products: Pro is for chat, and the Console is for building apps with the API.

So if the website is saying “not included,” it’s likely referring to Console/API access, not the Claude Code feature itself.

Did that clear up the confusion?

Me: No. It clearly states on the pricing page that Claude Code is not included.

Fin: That’s frustrating, <NAME>. The key detail is that Claude Code is included in Claude Pro, but API access via the Claude Console is not.

So if the page you’re looking at says “Claude Code is not included,” it’s almost certainly referring to Console/API access (the developer platform), not the Claude Code feature itself.

If you tell me the exact URL or screenshot of the page that says that, I can confirm which “Code” it’s talking about.

Was that explanation helpful?

Me: https://claude.com/pricing

Fin: On https://claude.com/pricing, Pro does include Claude Code. It’s listed right there under Pro’s “Everything in Free, plus” bullets: “Includes Claude Code.” So if you’re seeing “not included” somewhere else on that page, it’s likely referring to something different than the Claude Code feature. The one thing Pro does not include is API access via the Claude Console (that’s a separate product).

Also, the Code tab in the desktop app requires a Pro (or Max/Team/Enterprise) subscription, and it may not show for everyone yet since it’s still rolling out.

Does that clear things up for you?

Me: there is clearly an "x" at this page. escalate to a human immediately.

and then the cycle continues. I'm cancelling my Anthropic subscription, sick of worrying about limits and getting banned and simply awful experience.

People really have to internalize that these things are expensive to run, and that there isn't enough compute to go around, like actually for real for real, which is likely the source of this. My guess is its a temporary new sign up pause.

Related perhaps to GitHub pausing signups for Copilot? https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-c...

I was told Claude code was profitable on all subscriptions. Lol, turns out maybe you can be more profitable.

You know you can just code by typing and thinking, right? Like you don’t need to use AI if you’re a software engineer.

I know, crazy idea. When we told you they’re getting you hooked and would rug pull you called us permanent underclass or something.

Nice. Bye.

The enshitification stage came quick.

“Let’s see how they react, and they will be ok and we will be rich.”

Meh, $20 Codex is better at this moment anyway.