Anthropic has been running at a loss for a long time to build its growth and userbase. As IPO approaches, expect more restrictions to please Wall Street. There was a sort of arbitrage where you could use AI for everything , as it was much cheater than employees, but this is closing due to huge restrictions and costs.
Also keep in mind a 50% bonus in tokens is hiding the issue for many people and it's going away on the 30th:
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-...
Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 eats tokens way faster than older models.
looks like it
Anthropic has been running at a loss for a long time to build its growth and userbase. As IPO approaches, expect more restrictions to please Wall Street. There was a sort of arbitrage where you could use AI for everything , as it was much cheater than employees, but this is closing due to huge restrictions and costs.