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The monthly API credits for Max plan seems fantastic, especially considering Haiku pricing. Being able to actually use my Claude plan for other harnesses and use-cases on top of regular CC usage is everything I wanted.

Anthropic has really been doing all the right things in the past few weeks, while OpenAI continues to fumble the bag.

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Note that this is Anthropic Trojan-Horsing the previously announced June change in with a model release, where the Claude Agent SDK can no longer be used with Claude subscriptions and is now billed with API credits only.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

Sorry for the misleading wording on this page; we’ve updated it to clarify that the Claude Agent SDK can still be used with subscriptions.

Yep they're definitely getting ready to yank using your subscription with the agent SDK - this page has just been pulled: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

That's not a good sign for Conductor...

this is a common question. we're updating the faq now to make sure it's more clear

Update: We just updated the docs to clarify how API credits can be used w/ claude -p: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

Ah, that sucks. I'm using Paseo to run Claude Code; I guess that just got a whole lot more complicated.

We just updated the docs to clarify how API credits can be used w/ claude -p: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

Thank you, that's great news!

"You can still use the Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party apps with your subscription limits."

Using Paseo as well. This would be a deal breaker for me for sure.

Thanks for sharing this! These vendor lock-in attempts are very annoying.

yeah totally agree. esp how efficient it can be to have a subscription quota-paid orch spin up a bunch of API agents, this is kind of like free money to encourage what was already an easy way to save money (via batch pricing)

OpenAI has been a disaster lately.

> Being able to actually use my Claude plan for other harnesses

Wait what? This has gotten their blessing?

You could always use Claude models on other harnesses via API... just not via subscription. Now they give you $100 worth of API tokens to use on opencode or Pi. Which is better, but still not the same as OpenAI were you can use the subscription on Pi without problems.

Absolutely not.

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