Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic offers free credits for Claude Code cloud sessions
Anthropic opened Claude Code cloud sessions to eligible subscribers and offered promotional credits to qualifying Pro and Max users, with the balance applied automatically during cloud use.
- Anthropic said Claude Code could now run in cloud sessions without users joining the research preview.
- Anthropic said cloud sessions ran on its own infrastructure, so tasks could continue even if a user’s computer was not on.
- Eligible Pro users received $100 in promotional cloud-session credits, while Max subscribers received $250.
- The offer applied to individual Pro and Max subscribers who had an active subscription when the promotion began on 23 September, and users had until 7 October to claim it.
- Any remaining promotional balance expired on 4 November, and cloud sessions then counted against normal plan limits.
Anthropic said Claude Code could now run in cloud sessions without users signing up for the research preview. It also said the sessions were available to eligible subscribers.
The company said the sessions ran on Anthropic infrastructure, so a task could keep going after a user left their computer. It said sessions could be started from claude.ai/code, the Code area in the Claude mobile app, the desktop app, or the CLI with claude --cloud.
Anthropic said eligible Pro users received $100 in promotional cloud-session credits and Max subscribers received $250. The credits were applied automatically when a cloud session started.
The promotion was limited to individual Pro and Max subscribers who had an active subscription when it began on 23 September. Anthropic said the offer had to be claimed by 7 October and that any unused balance expired on 4 November.
Named in this story
Companies
- Anthropic
- announced the cloud-session change and the promotional credit offer
Products and systems
- Claude Code
- was the coding tool being run in cloud sessions
- Claude mobile app
- was one way to start a cloud session
- desktop app
- was one way to start a cloud session
- CLI
- was one way to start a cloud session with the cloud option
How the source tells it
The piece was promotional in register, using Anthropic’s own wording and deadline-driven language to frame the offer.
- vendor boosterism the company’s claims were repeated to present the feature and offer in a favourable light
- urgency the promotion was tied to claim and expiry dates