# Anthropic briefly walled off its top coding tool behind a $100 paywall. The real story was everything that came before. - Date: 2026-04-22 - Category: Artificial Intelligence On Tuesday Anthropic quietly moved its top coding tool behind a $100 paywall. By Wednesday it was gone — reversed faster than a software bug fix, but not before Simon Willison documented the whole thing and the market drew its own conclusions. ---