A class action request was filed today in the Beersheba District Court against Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, accusing it of charging subscribers without clearly saying how much usage they actually receive. The plaintiffs say the case is worth tens of millions of shekels and argue that Claude, which is widely used in Israel by professionals, entrepreneurs, programmers and business owners, is sold under vague terms that hide the real value of the subscription.
According to the petition, filed by attorneys Elad Danokh, Gregory Faust Kortschmanni, David Mikhaiev and Guy Davidovitz, Anthropic sets usage quotas that reset periodically and then offers customers extra usage for more money, while failing to explain how much usage is being bought. The plaintiffs say paying customers are forced into an ongoing payment loop, because they must keep spending money to continue using the service after hitting limits that were never made clear. They also allege that the company markets plans as offering “many times” more usage than others, without revealing the basic amount of messages, tokens or units included.
One plaintiff, a cybersecurity specialist at a high-tech company, says he joined Claude’s Pro plan in May for $20 a month, only to discover after use began that the chat would suddenly stop once a limit was reached and could not be resumed for hours. He says the system then prompted him to buy more usage. On June 13, he says, he paid another $5 to continue a conversation, without understanding what that purchase covered.
The second plaintiff, an Israeli advertiser who also uses Claude personally, says he assumed the paid plan would remove usage restrictions, but after joining the Pro plan he found the same kind of interruption. He says he later had to buy $45 of extra usage during an urgent work conversation, yet still could not tell how the charge was calculated or what he received. The petition says Anthropic is exploiting moments when users are blocked mid-work and need immediate access, while still hiding the amount of usage sold. The filing comes after a similar class action was reported this week in the United States over alleged misleading claims about Claude’s premium plans.
