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Anthropic closes door on subscription tap of OpenClaw
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OpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic’s services online.
Key facts
- From 15:00–16:30 UTC on April 6, we saw elevated errors on login for Claude.ai and Claude Code," the company's status page said
- For this reporter during the month of March, a $20 monthly subscription enabled about $236 of token usage (which doesn't necessarily reflect the actual per token cost to Anthropic) — This was around the time OpenClaw, an AI agent platform intended to operate autonomously 24/7, began attracting attention
- Uptime over the past 90 days slipped to 98.82 percent
Summary
Probably not because of OpenClaw, Claude was struggling on Monday with degraded service following further efforts to balance capacity with demand. "We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on Claude.ai, including desktop and mobile," the company's status page said, characterizing the incident as "a partial outage. An Anthropic spokesperson did not immediately have an answer as to the source of the issue. "From 15:00–16:30 UTC on April 6, they saw elevated errors on login for Claude.ai and Claude Code," the company's status page said.