The change began on Saturday, April 4, and users are referred to a «pay-as-you-go option,» meaning you can no longer use OpenClaw for free within your Claude usage limits.
It’s not a total ban, and you can still use OpenClaw through «extra usage bundles,» or the API (also pay-as-you-go), which are now at a discount, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny writes.
— We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools, Cherny says, and — Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API.
OpenClaw was bought by OpenAI in February, which promised to maintain it, but Anthropic would likely rather have people using Cowork than a competitor’s product.
Read more: The Verge, Business Insider and Slashdot.