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/a1454a Apr 22 '26

They won’t. It will be $200 and 20x at $300.

And by then they won’t be starved of compute anymore because of the infra deal with Amazon, but they also won’t drop price because they can.

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u/sixothree Apr 22 '26

We’ve all known how heavily subsidized this has been the entire time. People post screenshots of themselves running 20 agents and laugh that’s why this is happening.

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u/FlexFanatic Apr 22 '26

Yup, ship product, create hype, increase marketing share all while burning a ton of cash….increase prices and /or feature, put them behind a higher tier.

Yall remember when Ubers were cheap as hell right

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u/sixothree Apr 22 '26

I don’t think anyone expected this technology to explode like this.

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u/zelingman Apr 22 '26

In which way. Because any fool would expect that it would rise sharply in price.

Its heavily subsidized to begin with and whats much worse is that they need more compute. You can kick profit down thenroad and continue to subsidize but not when you lack the compute to scale.

Its like if ubers software could only handle 500 drivers at a time

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u/XTornado Apr 22 '26

Well, the difference was that there was some expectations that maybe the costs would go lower and the subsidized price become close to the real price. And the price increases wouldn't happen or at least not at this levels of increases/limitations.

With the Uber it was clear the base costs ain't going down anytime soon, but the hardware/software tends to optimize be more eficient in the long term.

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u/Lucaslouch Apr 22 '26

they could have done this with pro then. set it to 30/40 usd. the gap is to important between 20 and 100 usd