Anthropic planned to separate Agent SDK and third-party app usage from subscription limits. Just before the change was set to go live, the company reversed course.
Anthropic has paused the billing overhaul it had announced for June 15, 2026. "Nothing changes for now," the company told by email. It's working to better align the plan with actual usage patterns.
The original plan would have stopped the Agent SDK, the claude -p command, and third-party apps from drawing on regular subscription limits starting June 15. Instead, subscribers would have gotten a separate monthly credit, tiered by plan: $20 for Pro users, up to $200 for Enterprise customers. Anyone who exceeded that credit would have switched to usage-based API pricing.
For now, nothing changes. The Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party apps still draw from regular subscription limits, Anthropic says.
The reversal is notable because Anthropic had already banned third-party tools like OpenClaw from subscription limits back in April, angering developers. OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger accused Anthropic of absorbing popular features into its own system and then locking out open-source alternatives. Since then, users could still run their OpenClaw setup through Claude Code/claude -p under their subscription. The planned changes would have killed that workaround too.
