alt Hacker NewsExtra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)
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TBH, it looks to me as a trick to enable extra usage by baiting me with $20 credit by toggling on the feature that lets me burn another $20 without realizing it.
Toggling it again to turn it off immediately after (which I assume most people will miss) seems to guard against this.
I can “buy extra usage” for “up to 30% off” right now, but no free credits to be claimed on profile dashboard at the moment.
That's a nice gesture after they seemingly changed the rate at which my credits were being used to like less than half of what I was getting a week ago. But I'm getting tired of all of this changing all the time.
Did Anthropic run Claude in a loop and tell it "work on our pricing and usage strategy", or something?
As far as I can tell, they now have Free, Pro, Max x5, Max x20, Team, and Enterprise tiers. Plus session usage, weekly usage, extra usage (up to a spend limit (set by you) and/or a monthly cap (set by Anthropic)), and now usage bundles, which are extra usage but with a lower price and a fixed amount.
I don't know, but it really feels like there's an LLM churning away somewhere, endlessly tinkering on a PRICING.md file that is gradually accreting strategic slop.
> Your credit expires 90 days after the date you claim it.
I am guessing the vast majority of eligible credit will not be claimed or expire unspent.
Worth mentioning that normal credit expires after 12 months too, use it or lose it.
I'm honestly curious who on these plans that's not working with an unlimited enterprise budget would even choose to burn real dollars like this beyond the subscription? What is the personal use case? It seems exorbitantly expensive after you've exhausted your subscription.
Getting an error claiming it, but I assume they’re getting pelted by people claiming it right now.
Why would I want this, if I already have a subscription?
Wow they really are scrambling huh. London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…
Why is this company so desperate? Are they running out of cash?
The only listed qualification is "You’ve subscribed to a Pro, Max, or Team plan by April 3, 2026 at 9 AM PT", however I am not getting the banner for this credit. I suspect that there's an unstated additional qualification: that your account hasn't previously received an extra usage credit.
I don't know if they should be handing out more credits right now considering that my Sonnet requests in Claude Code are routinely delayed by several minutes, presumably due to capacity issues...