Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

F7F7F7•37 minutes ago

He mentions Max as another place that they didn't properly predict plan and pricing relative to usage. I'd bet the farm that it's the next to be 'A/B' tested.

wasabinator•about 3 hours ago

This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.

avaer•about 1 hour ago

You could judge the costs of the AI products you're using by the standard API pricing, not promotional subscription offers.

locusofself•about 1 hour ago

Are there local models that are anywhere near as good at coding as opus 4.6?

jasonjmcghee•about 1 hour ago

People will insist otherwise, but I haven't seen anything close to sonnet 4.6 that can be run locally.

Incipient•16 minutes ago

I don't think anyone can honestly say a huge frontier model is actually going to be matched by something running on 64gb locally?

rvz•42 minutes ago

I keep telling them and they still want to spend money on tokens at the Anthropic casino, even though they are egregiously price gouging and applying upper limits so you spend more on tokens.

Sometimes you can't help gamblers who want to gamble on tokens to hit the jackpot on fixing a typical issue which can be done by local models or even reading the documentation.

jazz9k•about 2 hours ago

The 'local model' is called your brain.

mingus88•30 minutes ago

I’m sorry but that’s just dumb. An LLM is a tool. Your brain is not a substitute for an LLM in the same way your fingers are not a substitute for a wrench.

The year is 2026 and if you are using your brain on chore work like one-off scripts, refactoring, boilerplate test code, then you are wasting time and money and I don’t want to work with you.

Local models are fine for this and can do it in a fraction of the time your brain will take to even get bootstrapped

incognito124•about 3 hours ago

Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477

muyuu•about 3 hours ago

Maybe those already on $20 a month plans won't be nerfed much more?

It's yet another austerity move, pretty much in line with the recent ones.

Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

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