Anthropic prompted a stir amongst builders with what gave the impression to be a shock change to its pricing plan: The corporate signaled that Claude Code, the favored agentic growth software, would now not be accessible to subscribers on the $20-per-month Professional plan.
Customers took to Reddit and X to level out that Anthropic’s pricing web page for Claude explicitly confirmed Claude Code as not supported within the Professional plan. (It remained within the $100/month+ Max plan.) New customers signing up for Professional subscriptions had been unable to entry Claude Code. In the meantime, current subscribers noticed no interruption.
After hypothesis and frustration unfold, Anthropic’s head of development, Amol Avasare, took to social media to make clear that this was a “small check on ~2% of recent prosumer signups.” As for the reasoning, he defined:
Once we launched Max a yr in the past, it didn’t embody Claude Code, Cowork didn’t exist, and brokers that run for hours weren’t a factor. Max was designed for heavy chat utilization, that’s it. Since then, we bundled Claude Code into Max and it took off after Opus 4. Cowork landed. Lengthy-running async brokers are actually on a regular basis workflows. The way in which folks truly use a Claude subscription has modified basically. Engagement per subscriber is means up.
We’ve made small changes alongside the best way (weekly caps, tighter limits at peak), however utilization has modified so much and our present plans weren’t constructed for this. So we’re taking a look at totally different choices to maintain delivering an excellent expertise for customers.
Some customers remained upset, noting that it was unusual and complicated that Anthropic ran a trial on simply 2 p.c of recent sign-ups but up to date its public-facing documentation to mirror that the change was common. Earlier than lengthy, the pricing web page was up to date to once more present that Claude Code is obtainable as a part of the Professional plan.
