# Anthropic reversed Claude Code’s removal from its $20 Pro plan within a day of community backlash. The underlying economics did not reverse with it.

- slug: anthropic-reversed-claude-codes-removal-from-its-20-pro-plan-within-a-day-of-community-backlash
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic called its Claude Code removal a 2% pricing test on new signups. The real test is whether $20 a month can sustain the agentic workloads developers have built around it, and OpenAI just made that question more urgent by putting Codex on the same price tier.

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