VentureBeat 2026-05-13-3
Anthropic Reinstates OpenClaw with Metered Agent SDK Credits: Compute Arbitrage Ends, Caching Becomes Pricing Substrate
Anthropic published the metering template every frontier lab will run by year-end. The May 13 restoration locks third-party agentic usage to API rates inside a non-rollover Agent SDK credit ($20 Pro, $100 Max 5x, $200 Max 20x), ending compute arbitrage and naming prompt cache hit rate, in Boris Cherny's words, as the published pricing primitive that separates flat-rate from metered inference. OpenAI and Google face identical inference economics; the lab that meters last bleeds margin.