# The $20 AI Plan Was Built for Chat. Agents Broke It.

- slug: the-20-ai-plan-was-built-for-chat-agents-broke-it
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic charges Pro subscribers roughly one-tenth of what tokens cost to serve. On April 21 it moved its top coding tool behind a $100 paywall, reversed hours later after a screenshot went viral. GitHub faced the same crisis and did not reverse.

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