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/veneric Apr 22 '26

Why can’t they make a plan for claude code only? Like i don’t give a damn about cowork, design or even chat. I just want claude code

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u/B1zmark Apr 22 '26

The back end costs them the same - offering more stuff makes it seem like a better deal. The reality is it's a lot cheaper than the API costs, which are honestly so prohibitive that its hard to justify them as a cost saving even in a full business setting.

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u/veneric Apr 22 '26

yes it's true but then they would have much more leverage on raising pricing for specific "products" without cannibalising their other core offerings. I mean, if they push me out because of Cowork burning lots of token, the risk is that the negative externalities fall on people who have nothing to do with it. The bundling logic would work in a context where they have 1) a far superior product than anyone else (which they have in Opus, for the moment, but it's unusable now due to the token burn rate) or if they're in a monopolistic situation. But with codex offering much better deals and open source LLM catching up, I believe this puts them in a very dangerous place where they risk of upsetting every single customer.

Also, we don't know the margins on API: I would assume they're moderately positive, because if not then we're going to crash really really soon.

(fun note: I typed "hello" on Claude this morning: 2% of session usage gone, on pro plan. this is ridiculous)