[causal]

You're totally allowed to use Claude for OpenClaw and you're totally able to use Claude Code with non-Anthropic models. You must be referring to the fact that you have to use an API key and cannot use the auth intended for Claude-only products, which AFAIK is the same at every AI company (with Google destroying whole Google accounts for offenders most recently).

[LaurensBER]

OpenAI and Github Copilot do explicitly allow this, so do many of the new/Chinese providers such as Synthetic, Z.ai, etc.

Anthropic is the outlier here, obviously they can limit their subscriptions as they want but it's a major disadvantage compared to their competitors.

[samrolken]

How can I retrieve an API key from ChatGPT to use my subscription in other tools then? This seems like it could be useful.

[causal]

> OpenAI ... explicitly allow this

Explicit means it's stated in OpenAI docs somewhere, but I can't find it. Link?

[LaurensBER]

https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2009742187484065881

There's probably a better source somewhere but this is the one I had at hand.