Anthropic is price limiting Claude Code, blaming some customers for by no means turning it off

Anthropic has launched new weekly price limits on its Claude Code device for AI help with coding duties. The transfer comes shortly after the AI firm quietly started implementing price limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic aspect of the AI chatbot that’s able to studying code, enhancing information, performing assessments and pushing GitHub commits.

In accordance with a collection of posts from Anthropic on X, these modifications are in response to some customers who’ve been working Claude Code “constantly within the background, 24/7.” Not solely does that add as much as a hefty environmental toll, the cases of continuous use are additionally financially costly for Anthropic. The corporate moreover questioned whether or not some customers have been violating phrases of service by sharing or reselling accounts.

Claude Code is barely out there on Anthropic’s Professional and Max plans, the most costly of which is $200 a month. These subscriptions which can begin seeing the weekly price limits starting in August. “We estimate they’ll apply to lower than 5% of subscribers primarily based on present utilization,” the corporate stated. For these individuals who do run up towards the boundaries on the Max plan, there will probably be an choice to buy additional utilization at normal API charges.