Anthropic is temporarily removing Claude Code from the Pro tariff
Anthropic is experimenting with the scope of its Pro tariff: for some new customers, the Claude Code component, important for developers, is missing.
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Anthropic is making some changes for new customers: The AI company has temporarily removed Claude Code from the Pro tariff on some websites. Additionally, a new customer reports having to identify themselves with Persona, a US company that verifies ID data and facial features.
A number of users have reported in blogs or on Reddit that the code component is missing from the Claude Pro tariff pricing overview. This is particularly interesting for developers. An Anthropic manager reassures on X that it was just a test affecting two percent of all new sign-ups. He does not say whether these two percent will still receive access to Claude Code or what will happen with the tariffs overall. A response to an inquiry from heise developer is still pending.
Many LLM coding companies have recently limited the scope of their offerings, as agents like OpenClaw are apparently pushing capacities to the limit. Anthropic itself has restricted the use of external tools like OpenClaw, similar to how Google does for Gemini CLI. Microsoft completely stopped new sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro and removed all computationally intensive Opus models from tariffs for end-users. Opus generally delivers the best results for coding, and developers are now forced to switch to business tariffs, which is difficult for individual developers.
Identification with US service provider in the future?
A single report from an X account suggests that Anthropic required him to identify himself via the US service provider Persona. Persona requests an ID document and a live photo for identification. The service is quite controversial; providers like Discord have since parted ways with it.
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In the current privacy policy of Anthropic, viewed today, there is no mention of Persona. heise developer has also inquired with Anthropic about this topic.
Security researchers, whose experiments Anthropic initially blocks by default, also have to register anew to continue working. Persona is not intended here, but rather a business access with an organization ID. Here too, individual developers are excluded.
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