April 6 News.Claude Code Subscription users via OpenClaw Use of other third-party tools Anthropic The code assistant service is about to face increased costs。
According to a client e-mail that is being uploaded on Hacker News, Anthropic announces that since midday, April 4th, Pacific Time, the subscriber “can no longer use your Claude subscription for third-party integration tools such as OpenClaw”. Users are required to cover additional usage costs through a fee-on-demand scheme that separates subscription services。
The company stated that, although new regulations are being implemented today only for OpenClaw, the policy “applies to all third-party integration tools and will soon be extended to more third-party tools”。
Under the banner of Anthropic Claude Code, Boris Cherny, head of social networking platform X, stated that the company's subscription service “is not designed for the use of such third-party tools”, and is now “difficultally planning for the development of a rhythm to provide services to users on a sustainable and long-term basis”。
1AI notes that prior to the announcement, OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger had announced that he would join Anthropic competitor OpenAI, while OpenClaw would continue to operate as an open source project with the support of OpenAi。
Steinberg wrote that he and Dave Morin, a board member of OpenClaw, “had tried to persuade Anthropic to change his decision” and eventually only delayed the price increase for a week。
Steinberg said: “Time is a funny coincidence, first they carve the hot-door function back into their home closed tools and then they block open-source projects.”
But Chelney stressed that Claude Code's team members “are all loyal supporters of open-source technology” and that he himself “has also submitted several ad hoc merger requests to better target OpenClaw's warning caches”。
He said: “This is more the result of technical engineering restrictions.” At the same time, it was added that Anthropic would still provide a full refund to subscribers, “We know that not everyone knows that we do not support such use, this time to clearly define the scope of the service”。
Meanwhile, OpenAI recently shut down its Sora application and video generation model. According to the information received, this is part of a strategic adjustment to free up computing resources, and OpenAI is refocusing its efforts to become increasingly dependent on software engineers and business users of such products as Claude Code。