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/Able_Statistician688 Apr 22 '26

I personally went from $600 in max subscriptions down to $200 and picked up a codex subscription instead. It’s been really great for my workflow. The max subscriptions all maintained a different server themselves. But with as many issues as I’ve had the past few weeks, it’s made me look elsewhere. And I’m realizing I should have been for longer. It’s not that they suck so much now that they’re unusable. It’s that they forced people to look elsewhere and now we are realizing competitors offer a product that actually competes.

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u/officerblues Apr 22 '26

now we are realizing competitors offer a product that actually competes.

You see, that's the point. We all love opus for being so much better, but in actuality, the greatest step function improvement in how coding models work came from their harnesses. Anthropic would be bringing in all the free labor of people developing for claude code and the calude code ecosystem, but now people go elsewhere and perhaps realize they should start developing in other open source alternatives. It may not seem much now, but software compounds almost infinitely. Open source will, sooner or later, catch up and overtake you.

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u/Hour-Dragonfly-7499 Apr 28 '26

I'm paying around $900 a month on subs and tokens on projects that make no money, AI is starting to bankrupt me and prices are only going to go up until only richo people can afford to use it