The June 15 billing split is punishing the wrong people IMHO. I get why they’re doing something. Tools like OpenClaw are running scads of unattended agents on flat-rate subscriptions. But the fix they landed on segments billing by how you connect, not by how much or how fast you actually use resources. If you interact with Claude Code through an ACP integration, you’re in the “programmatic” bucket and your usage gets metered at full API rates. If you do the exact same thing in the terminal REPL, you’re billed on your normal subscription (subsidized rates). The obvious solution is to adjust rate limits. Cap requests per minute at human-plausible levels and you catch the batch automation users without caring which protocol carried the request. Anthropic should reconsider. submitted by /u/slowernet
Originally posted by u/slowernet on r/ClaudeCode
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