angstExtra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14246053-extra-usage-credit-for-pro-max-and-team-plans
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.
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.
It eats more tokens than before, but is still more token efficient than Claude Code.
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.
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".
That's not the purpose of the trick. The purpose is to soften the blow for turning off support for OpenClaw and other third party connectors. Now to use OpenClaw et all you'll have to pay at extra usage pricing, it won't count against your normal quota.
I'd actually be happy with this if they turned OpenCode support back on.
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.
Same
Did you have extra usage enabled before checking? Mine was disabled and I received the $20 credit.
Yes, I did have it enabled. Though the terms say you "must have it enabled", not "must not have had it enabled". Perhaps there is a roll-out difference.
Well this feels scammy, or at least annoying AF. I tried toggling it on to see if that would make the credit appear, even though I'd never had it on before and never needed to use it, and since my balance was under $5, it auto-charged me $15. All I wanted to do was try to make the free $20 banner appear, and I didn't get that either.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.