I'm a student and is exploring different AI tools. After trying Openai, I read that Anthropic is a lot better so now I want to try it BUT when I verified my phone number, it says something about cannot use my number to verify right now and when I tried verifying again, it says "organization already has a verified number". I tried contacting the support but they haven't responded yet and it's been a week. I'm hesitant to use money since I haven't tried it yet.

Application form is here: https://www.anthropic.com/contact-sales/for-student-builders

What happened to Free credits? When You make a new Claude account there’s not a phone number option for Free $5 worth of credits anymore

EDIT: I want to highlight to everyone that this started as a fork of Claude Dev, which is why we’ve given full attribution and credit to original authors in the GitHub repo.

If anyone is curious why we made a fork, it’s so we could experiment with new ideas. We started to diverge enough from Claude-dev that we decided to stop making it temporary.

If you like it, great! We’re very collaborative and looking to integrate as many good ideas as possible. I think humans are only 1% down the path of building great coding agents and we hope to contribute.

Hey guys,

I’ve been working on Claude Coder, a semi-autonomous AI coder that helps you code on autopilot aimed towards no coders and coders alike. It’s open-source, and you can grab it right now on the VSCode marketplace or try it at Kodu.ai – no sign-up needed!

I've managed to partner with Anthropic to unlock a few things for the community:

• Zero Ratelimits using Claude and Sonnet (prompt caching included!!)

• $10 in free Anthropic credits (+ $10 for active users)

• One-click project deployment, web browsing capabilities, and a hosted web app to code on the go are coming soon!

• Zero Markups, our pricing is identical to Anthropic pricing, the cheapest provider out there.

• Free Trial no sign-up needed just download and start coding.

I wanted to personally note that I'm big about no data collection or sneaky cloud stuff, we don't read or store any type of prompt, message, or requests in our anthropic tunnel (links between your machine to anthropic through our unified API key), we only store the token usage to process user credits.

We are open source and welcome any types of contributions and feature requests at our Github (https://github.com/kodu-ai/kodu-coder)

🎬 Quick demo of Claude Coder in action (minor speedup)

Also, feel free to join our tiny but yet growing Discord and let me know what you think. Would love your feedback, I'm active most of the day (14ish hours T_T)

I've been inspired by Claude Dev, Aider, and Claude Engineer, and want to give a big shoutout to all of them for making this dream a reality!

Today I found out you can get a free $5 USD credit to try out Anthropic's API for Claude 3, so I decided to do it even though I loathe phone verification (though it's better than bank details, barely). I go ahead and give my number, receive the verification message, input it into their console... and get some bullshit message like;
"Sorry, this number cannot be used for verification right now."

I'm like ??? Why not? It was good enough for you to send a msg to. I'm on the list of approved locations Anthropic will serve (Aus). So I go to do it again, and now it tells me when I put my number in, "Organisation already has verified number" and doesn't go any further. So, not only do I not get the free $5 credit (though it still teases you with it on every screen), but they won't let me use my number to re-verify, because it already is... but also isn't.

Great system and first impression.

GPT, Google, etc. all offer some amount of base credits to get startups to use their platform (for example, OpenAI offers up to $10k before they start billing you for real).

Is there anything from Anthropic, besides the $5 you get for signing up?

I do have a few paid accounts cz I keep hitting the limit. So I made a new account just now, and there are no free credits offer on this one? Is it gone? Has it been removed? Why though 😭

I use AI to help me with my college work sometimes, and I wanted to see if claude was any better then gpt4, or at least somewhat good with less bad of a price. I tried creating an account with Anthro for that reason, and for some reason I can’t redeem free credits?

Tried one phone number, didn’t work out. Thinking it was just a one time thing, I grabbed my other number and it said the exact same thing, neither number could be used for some odd reason?

Has the websites terms changed? Is free credits still being issued? Please help!

By Claude (BTW me, my partner tried to get the credits in the UK and didn't get them after providing the phone number. Also asked a couple in friends in other countries and same result)

This is what Claude 3.5 Sonnet generated:

PSA about Anthropic's current API credit offer:

• Advertised: $5 free API credits

• Required: Phone number

• Result: No credits received after providing number

Multiple people have tried and failed to receive the promised credits. Has anyone successfully claimed this offer?

Be cautious about sharing your phone number. If you've experienced this, consider reporting it.

Anyone else encounter this issue or have insights?

I've been messing with Claude Sonnet and keep running into limits. I wanted to try it out locally using Claude Engineer but keep seeing the below error:

API Error: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low │

│ to access the Claude API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}}

I went to the billing. Saw the $5 promo option, verified my phone number but it's always at $0 credit balance. What am I doing wrong?

Since launching Claude Code on the web, your feedback has been invaluable. We’re temporarily adding free usage so you can push the limits of parallel work and help make Claude even better.

Available for a limited time (until November 18):
• Max users: $1,000 in credits
• Pro users: $250 in credits

These credits are separate from your standard plan limits and expire November 18 at 11:59 PM PT. This is a limited time offer for all existing users and for new users while supplies last.

Learn more about Claude Code on the web:
• Blog post: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
• Documentation: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude-code-on-the-web

Start using your credits at claude.ai/code. See here for more details.

Hi, still waiting for the results.

I remember reading that each valid submission would receive $5 in anthropic credits and I wanted to know if you have received them?

Thanks

How do I fix the Anthropic API not giving me the free credits, I've tried like 4 different number and it's tweaking over all of them. Help lol

I've been wanting to try Anthropic to see if it's worth paying for (since it's so expensive) but my free credits aren't working? I have already tried with several numbers, but nothing.

Then I checked this news and a week ago it still says that they continue to give free credits, so I don't know what to do. Maybe buy a number online from another country?

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a project and looking for some API credits, like at least $5000

Is there any way to have it?

A friend told me that if I'm tired of trying Open Ai, I can go and support Anthropic, but a problem arose when I wanted to register.

I registered normally, with my personal Google account, but when I went to verify my number, I got a message that I had already done it. This seemed strange to me, because I had never tried Anthropic. So I used another account so I could try it with another number that I have, but the same thing happened, then I asked my friend to help me, but the same thing happened again, and he used 3 different devices to register.

I really want to support Anthropic, but not without trying it before giving them my money, I've been like this since mid-week, do you know if it's a mistake or there are no free trials anymore? If there isn't any more, why leave that sign up there?

I just received an email from Anthropic:

We're offering a limited-time promotion that gives Pro and Max users extra usage credits exclusively for Claude Code on the web and mobile. This is designed to help you explore the full power of parallel Claude Code sessions without worrying about your regular usage limits.

Pro users receive $250 in credits
Max users receive $1,000 in credits

These credits are separate from your standard usage limits and can only be used for Claude Code on the web and mobile. They expire on November 18 at 11:59 PM PT. Your regular Claude usage limits remain unchanged.

Promotion dates: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM PT through Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.

Source: Claude Code Promotion | Claude Help Center

I started using Claude 3 early April and really enjoyed using it. When my free credit ran out I bought $25 more. A day or so later my account disappeared, and I was getting "Account Error" on logon attempts.
Was I banished? I don't know. I received no notifications. After submitting numerous 'appeals', I still don't know what happened. Anthropic has not responded except to say that my problem is being fixed without any further explanation.
For a while I could not create a new account because my old account still locking up my phone number. Later I was finally able to re-create my old account, but my prompt history was gone and my credit was zero.
So I will not buy any credits until I receive my old prompts back and an honest explanation of what happened.

UPDATE: I just checked my console workbench and I see that Anthropic has restored all of my missing prompts and unused Build credit. Woo Hoo! The squeaky wheels get the grease!! I would still like an explanation for all of this disruption, but in any case, I will start using Claude again!!!