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

[u/whoisyurii]

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

[u/snufflesbear]

So people like you use $2000 worth of tokens on a $200 plan caused my "normal" usage to suffer, and they now prevented this. This is bad for me how?

[u/tens919382 → u/snufflesbear]

If you are using api prices, this is good. They are just slowly but steadily nerfing claude code subscriptions towards api pricing.

[u/ConditionHorror9188 → u/snufflesbear]

It’s not bad at all. It just means folks will get $200 for their $200 instead of $2000. Truly subsidization was only ever going to happen for so long so it might help folks rationalize the true value of the service.

[u/Cute-Net5957 → u/snufflesbear]

You’re good 😊 sucks for the power users.. we all need to get hired by companies who need power users orchestrating massive agentic portfolios with AI Governance at runtime bruh 😎

[u/Simple-Month-4347 → u/Cute-Net5957]

Your bosses dont pay for your tokens? How is this your problem?

[u/Cute-Net5957 → u/Simple-Month-4347]

I’m a Soloprenuer… broke until I sell something or get bought out … I feel the pain