Why would I want this, if I already have a subscription?
Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
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Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#22TBH, 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.
Yes it works exactly like that. Beware
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#23> 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.
Sadly, no: you'll almost certainly burn it, faster than you think.
Anthropic recently (within the last few months) gave out what amounted to around $70 CAD im free credit. I rationed it slowly, spending maybe $5 in a month, using it a few dozen times to allow a Haiku-based task to finish past my usage window.
When Opus and Sonnet 4.6 released, I made the unfortunate mistake of "experimenting" with them on some work that couldn't be thrown away. I hit my timed usage cap, allowed Claude Code to consume 'extra usage' credits, and... nearly vaporized the entire credit balance within a couple tasks.
I understand that Opus and Sonnet are (considerably) more expensive than Haiku, but watching money burn by the dollar, in real-time, was enough for me to turn off extra usage entirely.
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#24TBH, 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.
Auto-reload is off by default, is it not? As in, what you're toggling on is "use my extra usage balance" not "automatically spend money by adding to my extra usage balance".
I read it as they'll invoice me up to $20. Not sure?
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#25The 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...
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#26Did 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.
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#27Why would I want this, if I already have a subscription?
Because it lets you ignore your 5 hour quota for a while.
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#28Wow they really are scrambling huh. London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#29TBH, 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.
By contrast, OpenAI simply multiplied your subscription usage by 0.5x for the past month. For all the shit they’re rightfully getting, Codex is so nice it’s actually weird .
OpenAI is in deep trouble and are doing everything they can to get back in the game. If they get back in, they will monetize.
Re: Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
#30That'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.