# Anthropic ends subscription access for OpenClaw, citing $1k‑$5k daily API cost vs $200/mo

- slug: anthropic-ends-subscription-access-for-openclaw-citing-1k5k-daily-api-cost-vs-200mo
- date: 2026-04-07
- category: Agentics

Anthropic let OpenClaw grow to 135,000 instances and 247,000 GitHub stars over two years without enforcing its own terms. On April 4 it stopped looking the other way, and the economics for every developer who built on that goodwill changed overnight.

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