Anthropic will no longer allow users who have a flat fee subscription to use third party tools like OpenClaw.
This makes sense as I imagine OpenClaw could easily be chewing through $1,000+ of compute when the user bought a $200/month plan. It was unsustainable.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907074/anthropic-openclaw-claude-subscription-ban
Dare Obasanjo
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