Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan
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Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan for new subscribers.
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If you are a developer considering Anthropic's Pro plan, you may no longer get access to Claude Code for $20/month, potentially increasing costs.
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Anthropic tested removing Claude Code, an agentic development tool, from its $20-per-month Pro plan for new subscribers. The company's pricing page explicitly showed Claude Code as unsupported for the Pro plan, remaining only in the $100+/month Max plan. This change caused frustration among developers, who reported being unable to access the tool upon signing up for Pro subscriptions. Anthropic's head of growth, Amol Avasare, later clarified that this was a "small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups." Existing Pro subscribers experienced no interruption to their access.
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Anthropic conducted a "small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" regarding Claude Code access.
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