“If you are a developer using Claude as your primary coding assistant with Opus, you will blow past breakeven in the first week,” developer Matthew Diakonov writes in that analysis.

“For anyone using agents heavily, this is a major cost increase,” the developers behind code editor Zed warned its users after Anthropic announced the Agent SDK price change plans.

On Monday, though, Anthropic gave these power users a pricing reprieve, updating its billing support page to say that it was “pausing the changes to Claude Agent SDK usage described below.” The company says that “for now, nothing has changed” and that it is “working to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions.” Some users report receiving similar notices via email from Anthropic.

“Nothing changes for now.”

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