"Starting at noon Pacific on April 4, subscribers will no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. Instead, they'll need to pay for extra usage through a pay-as-you-go option billed separately from your subscription."
"Anthropic's head of Claude Code Boris Cherny wrote on X that the company's subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools and that Anthropic is now trying to be intentional in managing our growth to continue to serve our customers sustainably long-term."
"Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source,"
"This is more about engineering constraints. We know not everyone realized this isn't something we support, and this is an attempt to make it clear and explicit."
Starting April 4, Claude Code subscribers will no longer use their subscription limits for third-party tools like OpenClaw without incurring additional costs. Anthropic will implement a pay-as-you-go model for extra usage. The policy will extend to all third-party harnesses. Anthropic's head stated that subscriptions were not designed for third-party usage patterns. OpenClaw's creator expressed frustration over the pricing changes, while Anthropic emphasized their commitment to open source and offered refunds to affected subscribers.
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