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Claude (Anthropic)·General chat + reasoning·scored18nerf/ 100

Anthropic moved newer Claude models to dateless model IDs (still pinned)

Anthropic stopped issuing dated snapshot IDs for newer models (the 4.6 generation onward) in favor of dateless IDs. Per Anthropic's model docs these dateless IDs are still pinned snapshots, not floating pointers - so version pinning is intact.

Filed
2026-04-15
Observed
2026-04-15
Response window
UNCONTESTED · DAY 30
Jurisdiction
MIT · public
CLAUDE (ANTHROPIC)NERFED18APR 15, 2026INDEX · OF · RECORD
§ 01THE CHANGEBEFORE → AFTER · GENERAL CHAT + REASONING
− BEFORE · REMOVED2026-04-15
Dated snapshot IDs (e.g., model-20250929)
API - DATED SNAPSHOT IDS·dated IDs since 2023-07-11
+ AFTER · CURRENT2026-04-15
Dateless IDs for 4.6+ - still pinned snapshots, not floating
API - DATELESS IDS (STILL PINNED)·dateless format from 2026-04
WASDated snapshot IDs
NOW
Dateless IDs (4.6+) - pinning intact
clarifiedNOT A LOSS OF PINNING
PREDICTED IMPACT · EST.LOW CONFIDENCE
USER IMPACTSmall subsetof users on edge configurations
12-MO FINANCIAL DAMAGENegligible direct costsoft friction only
CHURN PRESSURE · 30Dlowmarginal pressure on edge cases
Estimate based on the receipt's Nerf Index (18 / 100), the severity flag, and the kind of change (feature gated). How we estimate ↗
§ 03VENDOR RESPONSE WINDOWCLOSED · UNCONTESTED
Claude (Anthropic) · response window UNCONTESTEDUNCONTESTED
FILED2026-04-15
MARKED UNCONTESTED2026-05-15
NOW · DAY 75

Claude (Anthropic) did not respond inside the 30-day window. This receipt now reads as uncontested in the public record.

§ 04EVIDENCE TRAIL2 SOURCES
CONTEXT · NARRATIVEfiled by gotnerfed · 2026-04-15

Newer Claude model IDs drop the date suffix but remain pinned to a specific snapshot rather than auto-updating to the latest model, per Anthropic's model docs.

Newer Claude model IDs drop the date suffix but remain pinned to a specific snapshot rather than auto-updating to the latest model, per Anthropic's model docs. Teams that hardcoded dated IDs may need to update identifiers, but the pinning guarantee - the defense against silent quality regressions - remains. Earlier community reports of 'pinning removed' conflated the dateless format with a loss of pinning. [Corrected 2026-06-10: the original framed this as removing pinning entirely; that was inaccurate - see /transparency.]

DETECTED2026-04-15KINDFEATURE GATEDSEVERITYMINORSOURCES2VENDOR REPLYNONE
PRIMARY SOURCES · CHRONOLOGICAL02 / 02
§ 05NEXT STEP · ESCAPE POD4 RANKED ALTS
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Open WebUIFREE / OSS
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The default ChatGPT-replacement self-host. Massive ecosystem.

MIT

Permissive (MIT) open-weight model targeting ChatGPT/Claude-class chat and agentic coding without API lock-in - the strongest open option for a self-hosted stack.

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Drop-in open-weight replacement for the OpenAI/Anthropic chat APIs. Flash is the locally-runnable variant; serve it behind Open WebUI.

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