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!

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.

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.

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