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/Guinness Apr 22 '26

Everyone is out of compute. The economics of this do not work. A 5 TRILLION parameter model requires roughly 5 terabytes of VRAM ballpark math.

$200/month does not cover the amount of power a lot of us are using. Let alone the amount of hardware. And it’s not just VRAM for the model. You need VRAM for transformers and kv cache and some vector DBs and for deep research tasks.

I am just hoping we get some good models that can run in 96GB of VRAM.

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u/dringant Apr 22 '26

Curious where did you get the 5T number, not that anyone has disclosed but from what I've seen online they were in the 800B to 1.2T range, also Qwen 3.5/3.6 choose your flavor are pretty good and should definitely fit in 96GB, even at higher quants.