Developers Criticize Anthropic's Stealthy Change to Subscription Plan, Community Sentiment Shifts Toward OpenAI

According to Vision OneMillion's monitoring, Anthropic, in a pricing page test, removed the CLI tool Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan, triggering widespread criticism from the developer community. Many users accused Anthropic of extremely poor communication and labeled the move as "greedy." They criticized this sudden disguised price increase for undermining the tool's reliability and threatened to unsubscribe.

Meanwhile, community sentiment is notably shifting towards OpenAI. On one hand, this is because OpenAI explicitly promises to keep Codex available for free and in the basic subscription tier; on the other hand, it is also due to the recent strong performance of its models: the flagship model GPT-5.4 surpassed the human expert baseline in OSWorld's computer usage tests, and the newly launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 also claimed the top spot in the Image Arena leaderboard.

A comparison of business strategies and the solid performance of the new models have accelerated user conversions. Many developers who had relied on Claude Code are now expressing their intention to switch to Codex, jokingly suggesting that Anthropic is actively helping OpenAI harvest users for free. According to official data released yesterday, Codex's weekly active users have exceeded 4 million.