RIP OpenClaw: Anthropic Just BANNED Third-Party Harnesses

Hey guys, what is going on? This is going to be a quick one from me. I just want to talk about this because this might affect people who watch my channel. Now, as a lot of you may know, Anthropic has been in a war with Open Claw for a while now, and they finally have done something that kind of makes them win this war. So, Anthropic has officially banned Open Claw usage. I wouldn't quite say that was a fair way to put this, but this is the important thing at the bottom right here. So, as you can see, it says starting April the 4th at 12:00 p.m., you'll no longer be able to use your Claw subscription limits for third-party harnesses, including Open Claw, and obviously probably Paperclip as well. You can still use them with your Claw account, but they will require extra usage, a pay-as-you-go option billed separately from your subscription. So, basically, you cannot use your Claw Max subscription anymore in order to run Open Claw or Paperclip, etc., etc. So, you can see here, I wanted to verify this, so I went on and I I basically went on Google, looked for a little bit more information. Anthropic is cutting off third-party harnesses, Open Claw, etc., from subscription limits starting April the 4th. Here's what this means. Just got this email, blah, blah, blah. And then, a load of other people are saying, "Sad move. This will send a wave of customers to Open AI." I don't know if it will or if people will just start using Claw code instead. Seems like people are pretty annoyed with this, as you can see. This is a obviously a sarcastic comment continues to be impressed by the professional communication from Anthropic. "With them rolling out major changes with less than 24 hours on Friday afternoon and announcing changes on employees' personal Twitter accounts, it's a class act to top to bottom over there. They're honestly a college group project masquerading as a business." I don't know about that. But yeah, this is a pretty big change, and it basically means that things like Open Claw and also Paperclip are borderline useless, to be honest with you. The only thing that can bring them back is if they release HQ 4.6, for example, or HQ 5 or something, and it's actually really, really good. I think this is a very telling comment. "Thankfully, I turned off my Open Claw a couple of weeks back and have been using Claw AI for everything since. Man, has life been better." And then, this bro [snorts] here says, "I find coding in the terminal in Claw code has been the best rather than having Open Claw do it." So, why even bother using Open Claw, one might ask, to be honest. I have to say, guys, I'm not that bothered, to be honest, about this. Like, I think most of what you can do with Paperclip {slash} Open Claw you can actually do with Claw code anyway. So, I mean, it wasn't really that important to use Open Claw in the first place. But, this will piss off a lot of people. Yeah, so this is a really, really good point. I'll admit I don't know a lot about platforms like Open Claw, but if these folks are stressing the system, yeah, I love it. That's really, really good. That's a good point. Um, we've all been experiencing problems with limits recently, and if this helps that problem, then personally, I'm all for it. Okay, so yeah, this is a pretty interesting point here. This is from Anthropic's uh documentation or articles, it looks like. Is this a new article? Updated today. Yeah, so this was updated today. Just before we continue the video, guys, quick shoutout from our sponsor, me. This is Harbor SEO.ai, and I'm currently trying to make it the best AI SEO content generator on the market. I'm adding new things basically every single day. I'm doing all of the support, and I'm trying to make this better and better all the time. 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Anthropic may, at its discretion, allow paid users who who have enabled extra usage to use certain third-party tools to access Anthropic services, including in paid subscription plans, but reserve the right to draw use of third-party tool from extra usage rather than subscription limits. Very interesting. Users are responsible for any extra usage charges incurred in this way. Use of third-party tools that represent their identities to Anthropic servers, attempt to route third-party traffic against subscription limits, or otherwise violate applicable terms or policies is prohibited, and such use use may be enforced against. What? And such use may be enforced against. I don't know if I'm just stupid or not a lawyer, but that sentence doesn't really make sense to me. Oh, and such use may be enforced against. Okay, that does make sense. Okay, so yeah, basically, what they're doing is they're getting rid of Open Claw. They're getting rid of Paperclip. And to be honest with you, after I made that video about Open Claw, I realized I'd used 100% of my Sonic usage for the entire week. So, I wouldn't wouldn't even recommend using these tools. I'm happy that they're doing this. The main reason is because the usage limits and the stupidity of Claw was getting so bad that you basically couldn't even use Claw anymore. So, the long and short of this, guys, is probably the usage limits will be sorted soon. Also, they're most likely going to drop uh Claw 5 next week. I'm guessing that's why they're doing this, to prepare for that fact. They didn't want people, you know, destroying their servers using something like Paperclip. If you actually look at Paperclip, it uses way too much usage, guys. I didn't know that when I made that video, but now we know, and I wouldn't even recommend using Paperclip or Open Claw for that reason. It just uses too much usage. If you are an Open Claw user, what are you going to do instead? I would probably recommend that you use Codex. Codex gives you really, really good limits for 20 bucks a month. So, you are able to actually use Open Claw as much as you want. They're working with Open AI. It's not the best model, necessarily, but if you use something like GPT 5.4 Mini, you can get really, really good bang for your buck. Or if you use a better model as well, you still get pretty good bang for your buck. So, if you're an Open Claw user or Paperclip user watching this video, I'd recommend using Codex. I will say that it's not as intelligent, and it doesn't feel the same. As someone who's used both Codex and Claw for Paperclip, I can tell you that Claw feels significantly better, but nobody's going to be paying thousands of bucks a month just to run some AI agents. And you can no longer use your subscription. So, yeah, I don't really know what to suggest. Codex is probably the answer, but like I said, it doesn't feel the same. I think I'll leave the video there, guys. Thank you so much for watching. If you are watching on the way to the end of the video, you're an absolute legend, and I'll see you very, very soon with some more content. Peace out.