Overview
- Anthropic, which began enforcing the change Saturday at noon PT, ended subscription coverage for third-party agent tools such as OpenClaw.
- Users who still want to run OpenClaw with Claude must pay for extra usage bundles tied to their login or switch to a Claude API key.
- Anthropic is giving a one-time credit equal to one month of the plan price and is offering full refunds through a link sent by email.
- The company said third-party agents created outsized compute demand and violated terms for consumer accounts, and it plans to apply the rule to more third-party harnesses.
- This follows months of tightened session limits and terms, and it fits a broader industry shift that pushes high-volume automation toward metered API pricing.