AI coding startup Windsurf has announced that Anthropic has nearly eliminated all access to their Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. CEO Varun Mohan mentioned that Anthropic’s choice to restrict first-party access was made with “less than five days of notice,” in a message on X.
“Given the short notice, we may see some short-term Claude 3.x model availability issues as we have very quickly ramped up capacity on other inference providers, but we believe we have now secured sufficient near term capacity,” he went on.
Last month, following the release of Anthropic’s newest Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 models, Mr. Mohan stated in another message on X that the AI company had not provided direct access to them.
He emphasized that Windsurf has been “very clear to Anthropic that this is not our desire,” and that they are willing to compensate them for the “full capacity,” but the short notice and Anthropic’s final decision were “disappointing.”
Nevertheless, he mentioned that they have worked to enhance Windsurf’s performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro as an alternative. “Gemini 2.5 Pro (now offering very high quality on Windsurf, new 0.75x promo rate), GPT 4.1, and others are all unaffected,” he noted in the same message.
It was reported in April that Anthropic’s competitor, OpenAI, was in discussions with Windsurf regarding a potential acquisition as the AI coding sector heats up.
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