The reality of offering “unlimited” plans for any service where the provider has costs based on usage. There will always be users who abuse it in ways the provider doesn’t expect it (at first). For AI, generating tokens costs $$. So “unlimited” is either subsidized or removed:
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Anthropic29.7. klo 02.23
Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the background, 24/7. These uses are remarkable and we want to enable them. But a few outlying cases are very costly to support. For example, one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan.
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