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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by zozbot234 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:22AM (#47638412)
> You are paying to be using that limit some of the time. There are 5 hour windows when you are sleeping and can't use it. There are weekend limits.

They could easily structure their limits to enforce that kind of pattern fairly on both human and automated users. They could e.g. force a cooldown period between your daily activity bursts, by decreeing that continued heavy use on a 24h basis would count exponentially more towards your limit. That would be transparent and force the claws to lighten their load below that of a typical human user. We're talking about a company that's worth hundreds of billions of dollars and targeting highly sophisticated enterprise users, not consumers; it's just not credible that they'd be technically unable to set that up.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by asdfaoeu on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:39AM (#47638548)
Or alternatively just pay based on what you use? I.e. $/tokens.
Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:59AM (#47638695)
They offer that, API pricing. Or "extra usage" which they're saying you can still use for OpenClaw. It's really expensive!
Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by sroussey on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:24PM (#47640467)
Everyone want to take their subsidies from the consumer subs and use them to avoid paying the real costs.

Even the API pricing is subsidized by investors. When that stop, pricing will escalate.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by jmalicki on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:40PM (#47640654)
Is API pricing subsidized on a unit basis?

Most estimates I've seen have shown that API usage seems to be at least unit profitable (paying for infra and electricity, not R&D)

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by sroussey on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:49PM (#47670548)
I believe it was 2 years ago. But costs have risen a lot in the last couple of years but prices have decreased with competition.