On April 22, Anthropic's pricing page silently swapped the Claude Code checkmark in the Pro column to an X, effectively restricting the coding agent to the $100–$200/month Max plans—with no changelog entry or user email. Head of Growth Amol Avasare later disclosed the change was a "small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups", driven by Claude Code sessions consuming far more tokens than legacy usage patterns assumed. Developer backlash on Hacker News and social media was sharp; Anthropic reverted the public-facing pricing page within hours, though the company confirmed the experiment continued for the affected cohort. The incident surfaced a structural tension: Max plans charge $100–$200/month while Claude Code sessions can burn through token-equivalent value several times that per month.