alt Hacker NewsThe 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...
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Dunno, maybe there is a bug. I was both a subscriber, and had the extra usage enabled, and paid for extra usage before, and didn't get the extra credits. I am on the max plan, so was rather looking forward to the extra $100 to burn on /fast mode.
I'm not seeing the usage credit banner either. Didn't manage to claim it.
> I suspect that there's an unstated additional qualification: that your account hasn't previously received an extra usage credit.
My account has never received any credit. I subscribed to Pro only a few weeks ago.
I received the old one and I've received the new one too, so that's not the rule.
maybe they've changed the page since you checked but there are two requirements, the second one being: - You’ve enabled extra usage
If you haven't, then you don't get the credit.
I previously received one and was able to activate this one too. I agree it seems like there's more to this, just wanted to add another anecdote to further confuse things. :)