AIMPACT message, May 14 (UTC+8): Anthropic has announced a new Agent SDK billing policy effective June 15, 2026: third-party Agent tools such as OpenClaw will be permitted to access Claude subscriptions again, but only if a separate "dedicated monthly quota" is deducted, no longer sharing the standard interaction limits.
This is the final resolution to last month’s “ban incident.” In early April this year, Anthropic abruptly blocked third-party tools from accessing subscription quotas, citing abuse prevention. This new policy provides a long-term solution: the official API access has been reinstated, but billing is now completely physically isolated.
Under the new rules, Pro users receive a monthly allocation of $20; Max 5x and Advanced Team plans receive $100; Top-tier Max 20x and Advanced Enterprise plans can receive up to $200. This allocation is exclusively for third-party applications, user-built Agent projects, and claude-p backend commands. The allocation resets monthly and cannot be carried over; once exhausted, users must pay standard API rates.
Although officially framed as a measure to "protect users' daily chat limits from being depleted," the developer community sees this as the definitive end of the era in which high-energy-consuming Agents could be exploited through subscription plans offering "unlimited usage," effectively increasing the real costs for power users.(Source: Anthropic)