Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by maxbond on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:07PM (#47964585)

This is very concerning. Their heavy handed tactics haven't impacted me personally yet but I am increasingly nervous and casting about for viable egress paths if I need to flee Claude Code. I really hope they pump the breaks and thoroughly reorient themselves. They are under a lot of competing pressures and probably can't make a decision that won't upset a lot of people (in order to balance growth and capacity etc), but are coming to the worst possible conclusions.

For instance, maybe you can't afford to take on more customers right now, Anthropic. Maybe if you are severely undermining the customer relationships you already have, you should just admit you can't sell any more 20x plans right now and only accept new customers at lower tiers until you have the necessary capacity.

This is also a DoS you could drive a truck through, and it's disturbing such an obvious vulnerability was shipped at all.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by alexjplant on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:26PM (#47964860)

> casting about for viable egress paths if I need to flee Claude Code

Check out OpenCode (the OSS product [1]) and OpenCode Go/Zen (the LLMaaS [2]). Use a more expensive model with larger context (like GLM-5.1) for orchestration and cheaper models for coding and iteration on acceptance criteria (writing and passing tests). I also throw a more expensive vision-capable model into the mix like Gemini 3 Flash to iterate on UI tasks using Playwright. With the base usage in Go and pay as you go on cheaper models like MiniMax you can get a lot done for not a lot of coin.

[1] https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

[2] https://opencode.ai/go

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by reckless on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:28PM (#47964883)

Codex has been great for me

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by rglullis on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:59PM (#47965306)

Anything coming from OpenAI is an automatic "Hell, no!" for me.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by bwat49 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:05PM (#47967551)

well love or hate them, their service is at least reliable

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by rglullis on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:10PM (#47967597)

So is McDonalds.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by tremon on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:29PM (#47968451)

...as long as you don't ask for ice cream.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by aerhardt on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:28PM (#47967140)

I hope you appreciate the irony of saying that in a thread where we are discussing that OpenAI's main competitor is engaging in blatantly anti-consumer behavior.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by rglullis on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:37PM (#47967233)

There is no irony: both of them are bad (for different reasons, but bad) and this is not a matter of choosing the "lesser evil". Both of them should be treated as toxic and rejected as strongly as possible.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by Leynos on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:06PM (#47968233)

Maybe Droid? It's pretty decent. Crush is good too

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by bethekind on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:42PM (#47969774)

Use z.ai then. No need to knee jerk react

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by mattnewton on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:31PM (#47964922)

> or instance, maybe you can't afford to take on more customers right now, Anthropic. Maybe if you are severely undermining the customer relationships you already have, you should just admit you can't sell any more 20x plans right now and only accept new customers at lower tiers until you have the necessary capacity.

Or just increase prices for new claude code users? Surely transparent upfront across the board price increases are easier to swallow than hidden context-based pricing changes like this?

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by bogzz on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:23PM (#47965597)

I'm a hair's breadth from switching to a Kimi plan at this point.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by matheusmoreira on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:04PM (#47967525)

Same here. I'm not even using OpenClaw myself and it's starting to make me nervous. Every week it's a new problem, and then Anthropic deals with it by doing something so stupid and controversial it becomes news. It's really tiresome.

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Re:Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your com... by chillfox on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:03PM (#47969904)

I have been eyeing off the ollama and minimax plans, but I just don’t know how to compare them. Ollama especially, I have no idea how much usage I could get out of a plan.

Also, just learned about opencode go from other comments here, so gotta look into that.

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