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.