Anthropic’s April 4, 2026 change: Claude subscriptions stop covering third‑party agents — a capacity management decision
On April 4, 2026, Anthropic removed third‑party agent usage (notably OpenClaw) from Claude subscriptions and moved those calls to a new pay‑as‑you‑go “extra usage” billing track. The company frames the change as a capacity-management step to stop subsidizing continuous, infrastructure‑heavy agent workloads and to prioritize first‑party product traffic. What the policy actually does and why […]