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Anthropic Is Testing a Removal of Claude Code from the $20 Pro Plan
Anthropic may be making a change that won’t please everyone: Claude Code could be removed from the $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription. Tests are currently underway, as some new users have already noticed.
A test that could reshape access to Claude Code
Until now, the Pro plan has been an affordable entry point for getting started with Claude Code. It is probably also thanks to this accessible subscription that Claude Code became so popular in such a short time. Now that it is widely used (and that some people rely on it), Anthropic may well restrict access to it...
On Anthropic's website, some new customers no longer see the tool as included in the $20-per-month plan. This is not a bug: it is a limited test that would affect about 2% of new users, according to Amol Avasare, one of Anthropic's leaders.
It is a small detail in this subscription's pricing page, but it redefines the positioning of the Claude Pro plan and, more importantly, of the Claude Code product itself. It would become a perk for users who have a Claude Max 5x or 20x subscription.
We get used to tools that can improve our day-to-day productivity, but these pricing changes could have a major impact. This is a warning from Anthropic, but it may well become a reality: will this trial be turned into a permanent change? We do not have the answer.
The problem is that not everyone will be able to move from a $20-per-month subscription to a subscription that costs at least $100 per month (Max 5x). We are talking about a 5x or 10x increase in the monthly fee.
GitHub Copilot is also changing
Anthropic is not the only company revisiting its artificial intelligence offerings. Another major change, and one that is already official, has been made by Microsoft with GitHub Copilot. Here too, the plans are being revised, with new quotas being introduced, but not only that.
"Today, we are making the following changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans to preserve the experience for our current customers: pausing new signups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. We understand these changes may cause disruption, and we want to be transparent about why we’re making them and how they affect you.", this is how the article published on the GitHub blog begins.
Concretely, Microsoft has decided to:
- No longer accept new signups for GitHub Copilot Pro, GitHub Copilot Pro+, and student plans. This directly affects individuals (and freelancers) more than businesses.
- New limits (quotas) are being introduced, while GitHub Copilot Pro+ still offers limits that are 5 times higher than Pro.
- Anthropic's Opus models are no longer available with Copilot Pro, and only Opus 4.7 will remain available with the Pro+ subscription.
Apparently, the infrastructure can no longer keep up, which is forcing Microsoft to make these different decisions. "Long-running parallel sessions now routinely consume far more resources than the original architecture was designed for. If no action is taken, service quality will deteriorate for all users.", we can read.
These decisions, these changes, these tests are not insignificant. Everything suggests that Microsoft, Anthropic, and others have been very generous... but that may gradually come to an end.
