Anthropic Claude Code Pro Tier Experiment

Summary

Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from its $20/month Pro subscription plan on April 22, 2026 — replacing the checkmark with an explicit "X" on the pricing page and removing the phrase "includes Claude Code" from plan documentation. Anthropic's head of growth Amol Avasare stated the change was "a small test on ~2 percent of new prosumer signups" and that existing Pro and Max subscribers were unaffected. By end of day, Anthropic had reverted: the pricing page checkmark was restored and docs ch