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agentdev001 • today at 12:29 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

They did walk that back, you are able to use an Anthropic login in a non-anthropic harness. (For now.)

(Edit: I failed too mention, using a different harness with a CC/Anthropic subscription bumps you up to the pay-per-token rate.)

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andai • today at 12:36 AM

Yeah and it bills extra usage? Or did they walk that back too.. gotta keep the customers on their toes!

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alanwreath • today at 1:02 AM

Doing the whole “pay per token rate” when logging into a harness not made by them is not only being enforced by anthropic/claude though. It also is what Google does with agy (their TUI).

Is there any provider that doesn’t do this? That’s the one I want to support.

  > TLDR: they are all probably doing it because they are banking on you not using all your tokens.
I would be surprised though, it makes business sense to make the default vendor native TUI cheaper because it’s understood that most nascent users will just use the harness offered by the LLM provider and those that would stray off that would probably be more power users who would spend their token share more consistently till it drains.
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