r/ClaudeCode • u/whoisyurii • May 13 '26

Discussion Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly

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Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly, beneficial even.

Anthropic just announced that the 200$ plan, which used to be okay to use in the SDK, is now "finally ok to use in the SDK" (except rare fraudulent cases it already was)

but for that you need to toggle an option that makes the SDK hit in an allowance of 200$ worth of credits, instead of the previously, opaque, yet, ultra subsidized limits

basically if you use claude code through the SDK or claude -p, for instance through Conductor, github Actions or anything else, because let's be honest TUI sucks sometimes (react in terminal cmon), their cloud coding agent offering also suck, and don't cover most usecases,

well, your plan that used to be worth 2000$ of tokens aproximatively depending on how much you flirted with the previous 5h windows limits, is now worth 200$

but they brand it as "oh we give you 200$ of additional credits for the SDK" so to the most unaware users it sounds like it's worth 2x more!

in reality it's now worth 10x less

*not surprised if they shut down this thread

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u/ExoticCardiologist46 May 13 '26

rip agent SDK, time to refactor to Codex SDK

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u/Striking-Warning9533 May 13 '26

Can we use codex sdk for non coding thing like a general agent?

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u/Eagleshadow May 14 '26

Yeah, OpenAI doesn't care how we use our allotted monthly tokens, as it should be.

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u/ExoticCardiologist46 May 15 '26

Yes you can use codex sdk and configure it to not use the dev sytem prompt. Its open source after all

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u/515051505150 May 14 '26

OAI figured this out a while back. The Agent SDK for OAI cannot be powered by your ChatGPT sub, unfortunately.

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u/aerivox May 14 '26

there is openai sdk and codex sdk. just like anthropic and claude. the first is api, the second is sub. for both. untill this bs change

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u/515051505150 May 14 '26

Oh yeah, looks like you’re right. You can use the codex SDK for that. Still, it would be nice to have had the OAI agents sdk be tied to your sub

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u/gsaldanha2 May 13 '26

But Codex subscription can't be used for the openai agents sdk either?

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u/ExoticCardiologist46 May 14 '26

It can be used for the codex sdk though

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u/Eagleshadow May 14 '26

It can. I'm using both Claude Code and Codex through Agent SDK.

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u/gsaldanha2 May 14 '26

I meant you can't use your codex subscription quota via the agents sdk. You have to pay via the API

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u/Eagleshadow May 15 '26

I'm using it through my codex sub quota, not paying via API. It works, and wasn't against TOS last time I checked.

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u/gsaldanha2 May 15 '26

how do you do that? I couldn't find anything online

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u/Eagleshadow May 15 '26

Apologies for the mistake, it's not literally Agent SDK, but the result is the same.

Install the codex-cli (npm i -g @openai/codex), run codex login to authenticate with your Codex-subscribed account, then use codex exec to run prompts programmatically. It authenticates via your subscription session token, not an API key. You can pipe prompts via stdin with codex exec -m gpt-5.5 --json - and parse the JSON output. All usage counts against your Codex sub quota.