Anthropic’s Crackdown on the Claw's endless appetite

Somewhere, 135,000 agents hit a wall at noon on a Saturday. Turns out $20 a month doesn't cover an always-on AI coworker.Anthropic cut off Claude Pro and Max subscribers from routing their flat-rate plans through third-party agent frameworks. OpenClaw first. The rest shortly behind it. Roughly 60% of the 135,000-plus active OpenClaw instances were running on subscription credits. That’s the size of the subsidy Anthropic was absorbing on every session.The infrastructure math checks out. OpenClaw bypasses Anthropic’s prompt-caching optimizations. A single heavy session consumes infrastructure that, at standard API rates, runs $1,000 to $5,000 for one day of use. A Claude Pro subscription costs $20 a month. #OpenClaw