Anthropic Will Reinstate in June 15 OpenClaw and Third-Party Agent Usage on Claude Subscriptions

IBL News | New York

OpenClaw users will once again be able to enjoy their Claude AI subscription to power the open-source, autonomous, AI-agentic harness.

Anthropic announced via its official developer communications account on X, @ClaudeDevs, a new subcategory of “Agent SDK” credits for all paid subscribers, which they can now allocate specifically for “programmatic” uses, including external third-party agents such as OpenClaw.

Starting June 15, paid Claude plans can claim a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage.

The credit covers usage of:
– Claude Agent SDK
– claude -p
– Claude Code GitHub Actions
– Third-party apps built on the Agent SDK

— ClaudeDevs (@ClaudeDevs) May 13, 2026

The move is a major reversal of Anthropic’s policy introduced in early April 2026, which expressly prohibited its AI subscriptions from powering these kinds of non-Anthropic agents.

The problem was that some Claude subscribers were paying $20 to $200 per month for Anthropic’s Claude Pro and Max subscriptions, but consuming hundreds, even thousands, of dollars’ worth of tokens at prices above those through their OpenClaw and similar autonomous agents.

This was unsustainable for Anthropic’s finances and its limited compute infrastructure.

Rather, Anthropic redirected users to pay through the company’s application programming interface (API), which is billed by usage (priced per million tokens, rather than a flat monthly rate as the subscriptions offer), or to pay for extra usage credits on top of their subscriptions.

Now, Anthropic is giving Claude subscribers another way to use their subscription bill to pay for third-party agents.

However, if the user doesn’t use these new Agent SDK credits, they simply expire at the end of the month.