Yesterday in AI: 21 April 2026 — Claude Code Pulled From $20 Plan, Reversed in Hours

Anthropic spent two hours without Claude Code on its $20 Pro plan, sparking a developer pricing panic before reversing course. Plus: Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 goes GA with 80% SWE-bench and 300-agent swarms, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Digits ships a free MCP server for real-time accounting data.

By OMC Editorial on 2026-04-22

Anthropic spent roughly two hours on April 21 without Claude Code on its $20 Pro plan — long enough to set off a pricing panic across the developer community before quietly putting it back. Anthropic’s 2% Experiment Backfires Publicly In the afternoon of April 21, Anthropic silently updated its pricing page and support documentation to remove Claude Code from the Pro tier, listing it exclusively as a Max plan feature. The change sparked immediate backlash from developers who noticed the shift. Anthropic’s Head of Growth Amol Avasare moved quickly to contain the damage, posting on social media that this was "a small test on 2% of new prosumer signups" — not a permanent change. He acknowledged that "usage has changed a lot and our current plans weren’t built for this," citing surging engagement per subscriber since Claude Code launched. Anthropic reversed the pricing page within hours, but the episode handed ammunition to critics who argue the company is heading toward a mandatory $100/month floor for serious agentic work. Simon Willison’s widely-read analysis called it "all very confusing."https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/ Source: wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/ · The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropicremovesclaudecodepro/ · XDA Developershttps://www.xda-developers.com/anthropic-cut-claude-code-new-pro-subscriptions/ Kimi K2.6 Goes GA — 300-Agent Swarms, 80% SWE-bench Moonshot AI officially removed the "Preview" label from Kimi K2.6 on April 21, making the model generally available across Kimi.com, its mobile app, the official API, and the Kimi Code CLI. Built on a 1-trillion-parameter MoE architecture with a 262K-token context window, K2.6 claims the top open-source position on SWE-bench Verified at 80.2% and SWE-bench Pro at 58.6%. Its headline capability is agent swarm scaling: K2.6 can orchestrate 300 sub-agents executing 4,000 coordinated steps — 3x the scale of K2.