Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by cryptoegorophy on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:14AM (#47071228)

Can you sell ads via api? If answer is no then this “feature” would be at the bottom of the list

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by input_sh on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:03AM (#47071612)

They can sell API access via transparent pricing.

Instead, many, many websites (especially in the music industry) have some sort of funky API that you can only get access to if you have enough online clout. Very few are transparent about what "enough clout" even means or how much it'd cost you, and there's like an entire industry of third-party API resellers that cost like 10x more than if you went straight to the source. But you can't, because you first have to fulfill some arbitrary criteria that you can't even know about ahead of time.

It's all very frustrating to deal with.

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by 3D30497420 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:24AM (#47071290)

Plus, use of the API is a way avoid ads. So double-strike against good/available APIs.

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by prinny_ on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:24AM (#47071292)

There is a world where approaches like HTTP 402 are implemented to monetize API usage.

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by rawling on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:44AM (#47071460)

Please get this token signed by our ad partner to enable your next ten requests.

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by miroljub on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:39AM (#47071883)

Of course they can [1].

Though, in this case, you get free API access to the model.

[1]: https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2017063228094709771

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by admx8 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:09AM (#47072947)

What kind of ads they sell in terminal Claude code? Are you bor?

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