Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents

To be clear, it will still be possible to use Claude models like Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku to power OpenClaw and similar external agents, but users will now need to opt into a pay-as-you-go or API.
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I use OpenCode over Claude Code, and it's every bit as good

Beat-for-beat, feature-for-feature.

It's no longer free to use Claude through third-party tools like OpenClaw

Anthropic is no longer offering a free ride for third-party apps using its Claude AI. Boris Cherny, Anthropic's creator and head of Claude Code, posted on X that Claude subscriptions will no longer cover using the AI agent for third-party tools,

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Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

An API agent here refers to Claude Sonnet interacting with a web app via tools and APIs. The agent calls the same handling mechanisms that the UI calls and receives structured data in response, rather than a web page screenshot that must be analyzed.
Digital Trends

Claude just shut the door on OpenClaw (unless you pay more)

Anthropic just pulled a move that’s… let’s just say, not going to win it many fans among power users. One of the most popular ways to supercharge Claude, using OpenClaw, is effectively being paywalled out of existence. And yeah, it’s as messy as it ...

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