Will Claude Code remain available to new Claude Pro subscribers through 2026?

Prediction market on metaculus. [Claude Code](https://www.anthropic.com/product/claude-code), Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool, has become one of the company's fastest-growing products. [Claude Code's revenue grew to over \$2.5 billion by February 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation), having more than doubled since the start of the year. However, heavy Claude Code usage on the \$20/month Pro plan consumes significantly more compute than standard chat, and Anthropic has acknowledged that its current subscription tiers weren't originally designed for the agentic workloads that have since become common. The company has introduced weekly usage caps and tighter rate limits to manage costs. On April 21, 2026, Anthropic [updated its pricing page and support documentation to remove Claude Code from the Pro plan](https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_removes_claude_code_pro/), restricting it to the \$100/month and \$200/month Max tiers. The change was made without any public announcement. The support page title was altered from "Using Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan" to "Using Claude Code with your Max plan," and the pricing table replaced Pro's checkmark with an X — though other parts of the site remained inconsistent, still listing Claude Code under Pro. Anthropic's Head of Growth, Amol Avasare, later characterized the move as "a small test on \~2% of new prosumer signups," stating that existing Pro and Max subscribers were unaffected. Critics pointed out that the company's [public-facing pricing page and documentation had been universally updated](https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/1211/claude-code-removed-pro-plan-anthropic-april-2026), visible to all visitors — not just a small test group. [Within roughly 24 hours, Anthropic reversed the changes and restored Claude Code to the Pro plan.](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/) The episode drew [significant backlash](https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-claude-code-limits/) from developers and attention from competitors. Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex, [publicly emphasized that Codex would remain on free and \$20 Plus plans](https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2046740759056162816), adding that "transparency and trust are two principles we will not break." Avasare pledged that any future changes affecting existing subscribers would come with advance notice, but acknowledged that Anthropic is still "looking at different options" to sustain the current model as usage grows.

Resolves: 1/15/2027.