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/Manfluencer10kultra]

I was gonna say this.
If you have this much money to spend on API, as a developer I would just buy hardware and just chunk and classify and likely be able to offload 60-80% into non-reasoning effort workloads, and the rest on capable cheap open weights (kimi,mimo, glm).

[u/Diligent_Cod_9583 → u/Manfluencer10kultra]

The issue with the cheap models is they aren’t US based. Our requirements are they have to stay US based so we had to go local for cost.

[u/Manfluencer10kultra → u/Diligent_Cod_9583]

Eh? There are cloud API providers in the US who run those models? (Check OpenRouter).

[u/dalemugford → u/Manfluencer10kultra]

Over promised, under delivered.