TechRadar Effective April 4, 2026, Anthropic removed OpenClaw and other third‑party integrations from the standard Claude subscription. Users can no longer rely on their existing subscription limits for these tools and must switch to pay‑as‑you‑go pricing, prepaid bundles, or API fees. Anthropic cited excessive compute demand from autonomous agents as the reason for the change and offered a one‑time credit equal to the monthly subscription price, redeemable until April 17, along with up to 30% off usage bundles. OpenClaw’s founders slammed the move as a lock‑out of open‑source innovation.
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