> When Anthropic's Claude Design dropped Figma's stock by 9%, it also planted its biggest hidden risk — quotas. PC World's hands-on test: 25 minutes burned through 80% of a Claude Pro token allowance. Users exhausted a week's quota in half a day before finishing their designs. > > Two weeks later, an open-source project called Open Design rocketed to 40K stars. It charges nothing, has no limits, and supports 16 AI coding CLIs. It turns Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kimi, and even the DeepSeek TUI into design engines. > > More importantly — it installs directly into the Codex desktop app.
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1. Quotas Killed the Magic
In April 2026, Anthropic released Claude Design.
Within 20 minutes of the news breaking, Figma's stock fell 6.84%. Adobe took a hit too. The market sensed the danger: Anthropic was no longer just selling model calls — it had started selling the work products themselves: design drafts, slide decks, prototype pages.
But the market forgot one calculation.
PC World ran a hands-on test. A reviewer worked with Claude Design for 25 minutes, and 80% of a Claude Pro subscription's token quota was consumed. By community estimates, Claude Pro offers roughly 1 million tokens per month. In other words: a 20-minute design session ≈ 800K tokens.
Do the math:
- 20 hours of design work per month = 32 million tokens
- At Opus 4.7's public pricing ($15/million tokens) = $48 in cost, while the user paid only $20
Anthropic is selling the product at a loss. No subscription model can absorb that kind of structural loss long-term. There are only two ways out: raise prices, or throttle usage. Anthropic chose the latter — strict quota limits that let users burn through a week's allowance in half a day.
The magic is dead. It's not that AI isn't powerful enough — when being powerful costs too much, the magic dies.
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*Note: dollar amounts in the original post were represented with a special glyph; they are rendered here as USD.*