Comment by ehnto
1 day ago
As a user it is because I can no longer use the subscription with the greater tooling ecosystem.
As for Anthropic, they might not want to do this as they may lose users who decide to use another provider, since without the cost benefit of the subscription it doesn't make sense to stay with them and also be locked into their tooling.
The subscription is for their products? If you want to use their models in another product you can pay for the API usage.
From my perspective, I was paying for the model. This is kind of a pointless distinction now though.
It was working and now it isn't, and the outcome is that some of their customers are unhappy and might move on.
API access is not the same product offering as the subscription, so that's probably a practical option but not a comparable one.
you yourself admit that API access is a separate product. if you want to use 3rd party tooling, pay for API access.
if you want to use (most likely heavily) subsidized subscription plans, use their ecosystem.
it's that simple.
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