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Claude API credits come with their own ledger
歸藏 highlighted Claude’s new monthly API credits. The official terms specify $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, and a Team pool of $20 per Standard seat plus $100 per Premium seat, capped at $500 for the whole team.
Active Max or Team subscribers qualify after seven days; Free, Pro and Enterprise do not. Claim through web billing settings and link one Console organization. The subscriber or Team owner needs an Owner, Admin or Billing role in that organization. All its API keys share the credit. It refreshes each billing cycle, expires without rollover, and changing the linked organization requires support.
Coverage includes Platform APIs and Agent SDK use, but excludes interactive Claude Code, extra chat or Cowork usage, and Bedrock, Vertex AI and Foundry. Self-run claude -p with the linked organization’s API key qualifies; signing in through a plan still draws from plan limits.
After credits expire, purchased balance or auto-reload funds continued use; otherwise requests stop until renewal. Invoiced organizations retain normal billing. Rollout takes several days, so receipt is not universal yet.
Sources and further reading
- Original X post
- Official eligibility and billing terms
- Official announcement
- Another account on the same event
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