# Anthropic ends subscription access for OpenClaw, citing $1k‑$5k daily API cost vs $200/mo - Date: 2026-04-07 - Category: Agentics Anthropic let OpenClaw grow to 135,000 instances and 247,000 GitHub stars over two years without enforcing its own terms. On April 4 it stopped looking the other way, and the economics for every developer who built on that goodwill changed overnight. ---