Yeah and it bills extra usage? Or did they walk that back too.. gotta keep the customers on their toes!

Shoot, yes. The user experience of logging in is the same, but yes- using a different (non-cc) harness bumps you up to the pay-per-token rates.

However! I have seen projects which use CC under the hood, in order to get the subsidized rates.

Writing comments which get me to go look through anthropic documentation, and find friction I wasnt aware of (CC does not have an app-server), refreshes my frustration towards anthropic.