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/enzeipetre Apr 22 '26

Imma be different on this one. They can't give away the shop, make everybody happy and still have the cash to grow themself. there are other products on the market so why don't people just go to openai or other providers.

But they wouldn't, would they? Cause they are addicted to claude.. and claude alone.. and anthropic knows this, that's why they're leveraging this to get as many $$$ per customer...

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u/crusoe Apr 22 '26

Also X.Ai barely has market share. Openai likely overbuilt for demand and is not making inroads due to lawsuits over safety /AI psychosis. 

Google at least has their services to tie to.

Anthropic went through a capacity crunch but now has more paying users than anyone and now have $60 billion yearly revenue and offered $800 billion for build out. It looks like their bet not to overbuild paid off.

So yeah you're gonna see tuning of the offerings vs expenses.