month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing

Anthropic silently updated their pricing page to remove Claude Code from the $20/month Pro plan, making it exclusive to $100-$200/month Max plans. The change sparked immediate backlash on Reddit, Hacker News, and Twitter. An Anthropic employee tweeted it was a test affecting ~2% of new signups, but the pricing page was publicly visible and archived. Simon Willison criticizes the lack of transparency, the trust damage caused, and the strategic risk of ceding ground to OpenAI's Codex. Notably, Anthropic reversed the change within hours — while Willison was writing the post — but the trust damage remains a concern.