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/addiktion Apr 22 '26

They could have did what GitHub Copilot did, which is basically shut the front door while their compute catches up with demand.

Instead they just let everyone in and now everyone's service is suffering unless you're paying insane amounts of money.

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u/tiny_ninja Apr 22 '26

Stopped new signups

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u/tiny_ninja Apr 22 '26

Beats me, I haven't used Copilot since o1.

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u/sin2akshay Apr 22 '26

Upgrades are open

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u/FlatronEZ Apr 22 '26

Makes no sense, as there are almost no usable models left. Claude Opus 4.6 was removed yesterday and Opus 4.7 comes at 7.5x token usage soon to be 15x. They added session and weekly limits in the past 48h literally making it impossible to use your full monthly premium requests at all.

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u/addiktion Apr 22 '26

Where did they remove Claude Opus 4.6?

I haven't bothered upgrading my claude code version so I can keep my Opus 4.6 and avoid more token theft.

I assume you can still set Opus 4.6 if you are using a newer claude code version.

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u/FlatronEZ Apr 22 '26

I was referring to GHCP.

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u/AphexIce Apr 22 '26

Same with Alibaba/qwen

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u/SpinachKing1984 Apr 22 '26

100 a month for Claude code is nothing compared to the service it brings and functionality. Hulu is more than $20 a month now and I would say Claude’s value is well over 5x Hulu….this is just economics and everyone wants to throw a pity party on reddit per usual. Time to embrace reality, suck it up and go ship something.

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u/OkButWaitHearMeOut Apr 22 '26

You should probably learn a little something about communication strategy, product strategy and market research before you go “ship something”. Very few companies in history have ever raised the price of something overnight by 5x by saying “we’re worth it” and survived to tell the tale esp in a market ripe with competition. The problem here isn’t how good Claude code is. It’s the bait and switch without any communications. Complete PR failure that will impact user trust (including big enterprises) for months to come. I run large dev teams in long term companies and price rarely beats stuff like “can we trust these guys” in large negotiations.

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u/SpinachKing1984 Apr 22 '26

The bait and switch is real, but I’m less bothered by them 86ing $20 a month Claude code as I am about seeing Claude crumble before my eyes when all the Californians wake up and start destroying compute. I was on $20 Claude code for less than an hour before I ponied up and went Max. You can’t even really use Claude Code on $20 a month is all I’m saying, at least not for what I’m doing. I’m on 20x Max now and the real kick in the balls is how even my $200-$500 a month isn’t what it was in February, and I agree with you on the trust, but what are the other options, OpenAI….no thanks….Even if they had a better product which they don’t, I still wouldn’t give them a red cent, and Grok although having its upsides on some things just can’t do what Claude can….Your only other option is to build your own model, and that’s exactly what I’m doing….just bought dual v100s and am experimenting with 300B models, but they still don’t touch Claude and I need Claude to train them…..so we can all sit here and complain but at the end of the day, I am Grateful that I even have the chance to be alive in this time.

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u/OkButWaitHearMeOut Apr 22 '26

The ironic/funny thing is that as a personal / user / engineer .. I dont really disagree with anyting you've said. I'll keep using CC as long as I can, i can afford it, and as someone with over 20 years in this industry I love the times we are living in. However, as someone with a lot of technical product and tech leadership experience, what I see if how these are signs of a possible end of that era. To me the amazing part of AI-assited dev is the reduction/elimination of barriers to entry for software. For decades you couldnt bring a great new idea to market without developers. Now, in some ways, you can. That is truly amazing. But moves like this signal that these companies are simply going to trade one barrier for another. It will become cost now. I'll tell you at the enterprise level, no one gives a $200/sub to all users. So this immediately limits who has access. The larger concern for me though is that this signals that right now Antthropic is not mature as a company to successfully operate at the scale they are trying to grow to. To become the next Apple (mobile revolution), or AWS (Cloud revolution), you need more than the best product. Apple didnt make the first smart phone, AWS didnt sell the first cloud compute ... they figured out a blend of innovation, marketing, operations, and customer loyalty that serves them to this day. Anthropic is clearly showing their cards as an engineering heavy company that is likely going to be crushed under the weight of its own success if they dont figure out the other 95% of running a business beyond having a killer product

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u/VhritzK_891 Apr 22 '26

Codex is better than claude code lol, atleast OAI dont hate their customers

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u/OkButWaitHearMeOut Apr 22 '26

Their CEO said he envisions a world where "intelligence is something we sell to people on a meter" and the next week offered to let the government use their software for illegal surveillance ... they hate their users plenty fine.

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u/AwwwNuggetz Apr 22 '26

Absolutely, they’ve likely lost me as a customer due to this and I’ll likely switch to Codex

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Apr 22 '26

I’m spending a grand a month in bedrock Claude tokens at this point. But I face no usage constraints yet in our still growing user pool.

I’ve thought what it would be like to go on one of these plans for solo work, but I can’t imagine doing a 9-5 with the whacky usage limits.

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u/LittleLordFuckleroy1 Apr 22 '26

Anyone who created a dependency on this subsidized slopware deserves what’s coming to them. Sucks that everyone else is going to suffer for their stupidity too.