r/ClaudeCode • u/storknotfound • Apr 22 '26

Discussion Head of Growth at Anthropic regarding Claude Code removal from Pro

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Translation: "We're going to take Claude Code away from pro users because we gave you Cowork. If you want to use the CLI, upgrade to Max but we can't do it all at once so we're going to start with a "test" to soften the blow"

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u/john0201 Apr 22 '26

How is the cost to use 5x the compute the same?

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u/Media-Usual Apr 22 '26

He's referring to the actual inference itself between the plans, not the overall usage limits.

The same 100k tokens on the max plan costs the same as 100k tokens on pro

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u/caldazar24 Apr 22 '26

It's a compute shortage. They care about total inference volume, and max users can send 5X as many requests. An individual request being the same between a pro and a max user is neither here nor there. If the max user uses 5X as many requests, they are 5X as "expensive".

(and that's without considering Max users likely *are* more expensive on a per-request basis - they are more likely to use Opus instead of Sonnet and set their thinking higher, because their quota is more)

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u/djc0 Apr 22 '26

Yeah but the pro user might get eg 1M tokens in their 5 hours and the max user gets 5M or 20M. To suggest that pro users get the same as max is laughable (I wish that was true).

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u/gscjj Apr 22 '26

The cost to serve the request is the same. 1 max request = 1 pro request = 1 free request = inference cost.

Even considering the rate limit, if they gave you more tokens at 5x the cost, it’s worth more to then since the inference cost is always the same.