Comment by vicchenai

17 hours ago

Saw this coming eventually. $20/month for autonomous agents running 24/7 was clearly not sustainable at API pricing. The part that's surprising is there's still no official announcement - just a quiet page edit.

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moregrist  17 hours ago

The $20/mo plan never supported 24/7 autonomous agents. With Opus 4.5 and 4.6 I would hit resource limits after a reasonable amount of work, which corresponded to a variable amount of wall clock time.

This makes me think either they’re severely resource constrained and need to focus on “high value” customers, they’re bleeding money on inference, or their sales and marketing team is incompetent.

Regardless, this feels like a pretty big rug pull. Especially without a phase-out period and a real announcement. As someone using Claude Code on a personal hobby project to get a better feel for its capabilities, I’m not sure what to do now. I can’t justify the $100+/mo plans for a hobby project.

My choices are then:

  - Code this project by hand, which would be fun but defeats the point of this being my agentic coding project.

  - Find another model and use Codex or OpenCode or whatever.

  - Put the project on a shelf till this shakes out.

Fun times.

skeledrew  17 hours ago

> running 24/7

This was never the case though. There's a per week and per 5 hour quota. If you exhaust either you have to wait for the reset. What they're doing makes no sense.

boogerbuttcheek  17 hours ago

Choosing to do it quietly instead of letting everyone know is actually not that surprising.

  • skeledrew  17 hours ago

    And yet they're very aware that Hacker News, etc exists and so the awareness and backlash would be instant. It's like they want to get a lower rating from the community. Maybe that's their solution for the resource issue: make enough people mad so they abandon their subscriptions.