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[UPDATED] News: Anthropic (Briefly) Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users

We recorded 4 claims from this post. 1 was checked against evidence. 3 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (4)

In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Forecast

    “This suggests that changes are to come for all subscription tiers, as he also added that Claude's Max plan was released before Claude Code and Claude Cowork, and "...designed for heavy chat usage, that's it."”

    Our reading: Avasare's statements suggest Anthropic will likely change all of its subscription tiers, including Max.

    No horizon

    Qualifier: based on Avasare's statements that current plans weren't built for this usage

  2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Causal claim

    “This is likely another cost-cutting move that follows a recent change (per The Information) that forced enterprise users to pay on a per-million-token based rate rather than having rate limits that were, based on researchers' findings, often much higher than the cost of the subscription.”

    Our reading: Anthropic's apparent removal of Claude Code from its $20-a-month Pro accounts is likely another cost-cutting move, coming after a recent change (reported by The Information) that made enterprise users pay per-million-token rates instead of having rate limits that, according to researchers, were often worth much more than the subscription cost.

    No horizon

    Qualifier: Anthropic 'appears to have' removed access

  3. Assessment: MixedSaid

    Observation

    “This does not really make sense given the fact that all support documents and the Claude website reflect that Pro users do not have access to Claude Code.”

    Our reading: Anthropic's claim that this was a small test on about 2% of new signups does not fit the fact that all support documents and the Claude website showed Pro users without Claude Code access.

    No horizon Evidence as of

    Limitation: The counterexample relies on contemporaneous firsthand reporting because a sufficiently complete archived product page was not recovered.

  4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Forecast

    “Users were, instead of paying on a per-million-token basis, allowed to use their subscription to access Claude Code, but will likely now have to pay for API access.”

    Our reading: Pro users who used Claude Code through their subscription will likely now have to pay for API access to use it.

    No horizon

Held from this post (3)

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