Recently, several users have discovered that the Anthorpic official website appears to have removed the Claude Code feature from the Pro plan at (20 USD/month). This means that at least the Max plan at $100/month is required to use the feature. However, Anthropic growth executive Amol Avasare also stepped forward to clarify that this is currently only a test for 2% of users, and existing paying subscribers are not affected.
Anthorpic reportedly removed Claude Code from the Pro plan
Several users recently found that some pricing pages on the Anthropic website briefly showed that Claude Code is not included in the Pro plan, which led to community doubts about whether Anthropic quietly removed this popular feature from its $20/month personal paid offering and raised the usage threshold to the Max plan starting at $100/month. Relevant screenshots quickly spread across social platforms such as X and Reddit, and many individual developers who rely on Claude Code are worried that the era of “cheap but good enough” may be coming to an end.
However, Anthropic has not officially announced a complete adjustment for now. Anthropic growth executive Amol Avasare later explained that this change is only a small-scale test targeting about 2% of newly added prosumer registrants, and that existing Pro and Max subscribers are unaffected. At least based on the company’s stated position, this is not an already fully effective formal overhaul—it’s more like a pricing experiment to see how many people are willing to pay $100 for the Claude Code feature.
Anthorpic’s pricing test: Would you pay $100 for Claude Code?
But even if it’s “just a test,” this incident still sends a clear signal: Anthropic is re-evaluating high-consumption features like Claude Code and whether they still make sense to bundle them into lower-priced individual plans. When Anthropic launched the Max plan last year, it already steered high-intensity users toward higher price tiers, with Max 5x at $100/month and Max 20x at $200/month.
If, in the future, the company determines that Claude Code and other agent-style workflow features have exceeded the cost structure that the Pro price tier can support, then today’s 2% test may not necessarily stay limited—it could become the prelude to a broader adjustment later on.
For the market, as AI subscription models move into an era of more granular, tiered pricing. Chat, research, collaboration, long-running tasks, and programmatic agents are gradually turning into products with different cost structures. Platforms will inevitably start to pull the most resource-intensive, and easiest to be “squeezed for everything” by heavy users, capabilities out of mass-market plans and tie them to higher-priced tiers instead.
This article: Claude Code pulls back from the Pro plan—you’ll need to subscribe to Max to use it! Anthropic executives say it’s still being tested. First appeared in Lianxin ABMedia.
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