Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing

22nd April 2026

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to add this tiny but significant detail (arrow is mine, and it’s already reverted):

The Internet Archive copy from yesterday shows a checkbox there. Claude Code used to be a feature of the $20/month Pro plan, but according to the new pricing page it is now exclusive to the $100/month or $200/month Max plans.

Update: don’t miss the update to this post, they’ve already changed course a few hours after this change went live.

So what the heck is going on? Unsurprisingly, Reddit and Hacker News and Twitter all caught fire.