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> Second, this week, we’ll roll out a new monthly API credit to all Max and Team subscribers for use on the Claude Platform. Max 5x users will get $100 in credits per month, Max 20x users will get $200, and Team subscribers will receive up to $500, pooled across their users. These credits are designed to allow our users to experiment with building tools, apps, and agents that call our API.

This is kind of nuts

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Is it realistic or cynical for me to assume this is to wean developers off the heavily subsidized subscriptions? Presumably it's using similar compute.

Anthropic was ignoring the usage of third party harnesses. Not anymore.

>These credits are designed to allow our users to experiment with building tools, apps, and agents that call our API.

this seems like a plenty cynical explanation. it's just a free trial to get developers building on their api.

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