Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions

The era of “all-you-can-eat” AI coding and agent subscriptions may well be ending. Beginning June 15, Anthropic will separate programmatic Claude usage from standard chat subscription limits, introducing a dedicated monthly credit system, billed at API-style rates, for tools including its Agent SDK, GitHub Actions, and third-party frameworks such as OpenClaw, the company wrote in a blog post. The monthly credit for programmatic usage will depend on a user’s existing Claude subscription tier a...