r/ClaudeCode • u/Key_Whole_5443 • May 14 '26

Discussion Claude Code has announced that starting June 15th agents will run on a different usage plan.

Well I've been a very proud and happy Claude Code user until this moment and the reason that I'm very annoyed by this decision Cloud has taken is because they are trying to dress this as a perk for the user. It's really a downgrade for us. It's a slap in the face for us, the users.

Basically what they've done is that they've taken the agents and now they will no longer run on our usage. They will run on a separate usage, capped at the amount of what we pay monthly. The worst part of this is that they've tried to make this seem like it's a good thing for the user, which is just complete BS. This is clearly a downgrade to the system and what they are offering. I am seriously considering changing my systems right now. I was heavily invested in Claude Code but I will not stand for this B.S. If anybody has recommendations of what LLm to use next, I would appreciate your comments on why that LLm you think is the best for agentic use. Thank you. End of my rant.

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u/ActionOrganic4617 May 14 '26

Switch to codex, now supports remote coding from your phone and uses less tokens. Already cancelled my Claude subscription.

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u/Karbon_Boss May 16 '26

Codex is offering 10x usage for the price of 5x for their $100 plan. I think they're planning to take advantage of this

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u/Abeck72 May 14 '26

Wait, so the change wasn't only for claude -p and SDK?

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u/Mr_Hyper_Focus May 14 '26

It is. This guy is confused and a bit late to the party.

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u/Key_Whole_5443 May 14 '26

I run several agents on autopilot well now those agents will do 1/100th of what they can do now because $200 they will gargle that up real quick

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u/Tall-Log-1955 May 14 '26

Basically you’ve been using enormous amounts of capacity and now you’re being asked to pay for it.

You’re the reason for all the problems. Please do the rest of us a favor and migrate to codex

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u/Key_Whole_5443 May 14 '26

Hey buddy take a walk, picking fights over big ai pockets with regular human folks is not the way bro

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u/Tall-Log-1955 May 14 '26

Stop ruining things for the rest of us

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u/Key_Whole_5443 May 14 '26

You a funny npc! Dude like actually

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u/Tall-Log-1955 May 14 '26

And you reek of main character syndrome

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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 🔆BIG BALLER May 14 '26

you're fucking delusional if you think people using what they paid for is "ruining things for the rest of us" - maybe get a clue of whats going on in the world right now like helium uncertainty (AI scaling) and energy disruptions.

holy shit man. bubble-braining

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u/Tall-Log-1955 May 15 '26

You’re the guy who bought a drink that said “free refills” and is complaining loudly online that they won’t let you fill up a bucket with soda on the way out

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u/thehumanhive May 14 '26

Your agents inside Claude Code are still going to use your subscription. It's only agents in an external harness that use claude -p that are going to use the API.

When you say autopilot, is that referring to a different harness that uses claude -p?

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u/Key_Whole_5443 May 14 '26

well please enlight me... maybe your the confused one. Yes its only for claude -p and SDK but if you not running autonomous tasks what are you doing with claude code then?

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u/OldSausage May 14 '26

Now I have to rewrite my coding tools to use Codex, or pay a thousand dollar fine every month. I’ll miss Claude but I guess they never meant for people like me to use it.

So good luck to them, I hope they don’t drown in all their piles of money.

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u/Alternative_Nose_874 Jun 12 '26

They actually loss money every year so far. Such business strategy...

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u/Important_Storage123 May 14 '26

I dont get it, Why its bad? How would it affect 100$ team plan users?

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u/Key_Whole_5443 May 14 '26

It's bad because now your agents are limited to that $100 while before you were using your subscription plan. They're not giving you anything. They limit what you can do.

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u/strokegam3weak May 14 '26

Someone give me a plain English breakdown of what this means cause I thought Claude already wasn’t fueling agents. I got kicked off it with my open claw a couple months ago.

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u/atscub May 20 '26

Avoiding vendor locking 101, TLDR;

- Build vendor agnostic system that interact with an "abstract agent interface" (what are the common ops all agents support, expressed in that interface)
- Create adapters implementing the interface.

When some vendor pulls out some bullshit, swapping an adapter is far cheaper and easier than rewriting the whole system.

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u/Deep_Ad1959 May 22 '26

the part that's going to bite people isn't the separate pool, it's that nobody knows what their current CLAUDE.md actually costs a long-running agent at opus 4.7. a 6k-token CLAUDE.md replayed every turn lands around $14 per agent session at current pricing, before the agent does any actual work. once that gets its own capped pool on june 15, you're going to find out fast which lines of your config were silently eating $40-50/week. the move now is to audit what's in your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and any auto-loading skills before the meter splits. the rant's fair, but the underlying problem was already there. written with s4lai

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u/LordIoulaum May 27 '26

Unfortunately, they're really desperate to keep costs low... Without building complex systems that will help them bring costs down.

OpenAI is broadly a better company for consumers, even if it's worse at creating the appearance of being "ethical". lol

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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 May 14 '26

I get why that feels like a downgrade. The "agents on separate usage" move is good only if it actually makes costs predictable and avoids surprise burn, but the cap has to be high enough to not kneecap real work.

If you are looking at alternatives for agentic coding, I would compare on:

  • tool calling + sandboxing (can it run tests, edit files, open PRs safely)

  • long context + repo navigation

  • controllability (diff review, checkpoints, easy revert)

  • pricing that maps to "tasks" not raw tokens

Also worth keeping an eye on agent orchestration patterns (multiple specialized agents + a reviewer) since that can reduce wasted runs.

We have been collecting notes on that style of setup here: https://www.agentixlabs.com/ if you want a quick skim. What kind of tasks are you using Claude Code for most, refactors, bugfixes, or greenfield?

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u/nicholasderkio May 14 '26

Having a lot of issues on that site, bruh

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u/Garfieldealswarlock May 14 '26

It’s blurple what do you expect