Anthropic is cutting off support for the popular AI agent platform OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions, as it grapples with soaring demand for its chatbot.<\/p>\n
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Boris Cherny<\/a>, head of Claude Code, said in an X post on Friday evening that Claude subscriptions will no longer support third-party tools like OpenClaw starting at 12 p.m. PT on Saturday. Users will instead need to pay through discounted “extra usage bundles” tied to their Claude login or use a separate Claude API key through Anthropic’s developer platform, Cherny said.<\/p>\n The Anthropic executive said the move was driven by the compute demand Anthropic is seeing from users.<\/p>\n Claude had surged in popularity in recent weeks, briefly topping the\u00a0US Apple App Store<\/a>\u00a0in March. Last week, Anthropic had to adjust Claude usage limits<\/a> for subscribers due to the demand.<\/p>\n “We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools. Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API,” Cherny wrote in the X post.<\/p>\n An Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement that using Claude subscriptions with third-party tools is against the company’s terms of service and that those tools put an “outsized strain on our systems.”<\/p>\n Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, said on X that he and Dave Morin, a board member of the OpenClaw foundation, tried to “talk sense into Anthropic” and that they delayed Anthropic’s move for a week.<\/p>\n “We told Anthropic that we have many users who only signed up for their sub because of OpenClaw and that it’d be a loss if they cut them off,” Steinberger told Business Insider in a text message. “Now they try to bury the news on a Friday night.”<\/p>\n OpenClaw is a fast-rising AI agent platform that connects to platforms like Claude, enabling users to deploy personal AI assistants. Those assistants can then carry out tasks on other apps and workflows.<\/p>\n The popularity of OpenClaw has sparked an AI agent craze<\/a>. Some users have deployed AI assistants to manage their entire day-to-day workflow. One founder said she built nine AI agents<\/a> to handle administrative work and personal household logistics.<\/p>\n Anthropic is not alone in putting restrictions on third-party tools.<\/p>\n Google recently took action against Gemini CLI users who use third-party tools; although the move was not framed as a capacity issue, it was more of a violation of the terms of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic is cutting off support for the popular AI agent platform OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions, as it grapples…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-563544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}