From the email:

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.

This is a limited time offer. It is available for existing users and only available for new users while supplies last.

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 work for a company that has some databases with content created by various freelancers since different domains require different experts with their respective area of expertise. One of these databases is moderately sized at 2000 entries with quite a number of interrelated columns. As is to be expected, it's a mess because no two people follow the same standards, and people can be sloppy sometimes in very technically nuanced ways that are hard to catch.

This is where Claude Code Web comes in. Together with the project lead, I created quite technical and nuanced instrucctions for Claude Code to analyze each and every entry in this database and perform a comprehensive fact check using various specialized subagents in parallel. We had already tested and refined the prompts so we knew it did a pretty good job in informing us of factual inaccuracies in the database content. Suddenly, I get 1000$ for free in Claude credits, so I spin up 30+ agents to work in parallel since this task is extremely parallelizable in nature. I'm mildly surprised it let me spin up that many agents. There was a toast message a couple of times that I apparently reached the concurrency limit, but it would just spin up the agents regardless.

I go for dinner, and once I come back I have burned through 500$ and fact-checked a decent chunk of my database and found a bunch of really nuanced factual inaccuracies. Rinse and repeat aaaaaaand it's gone. I burned through 1000$ of Claude Code Web credits in one evening.

But let's be real for a moment. Please don't burn tokens just because you can. Don't compete on token leaderboards and stuff like that. I did this specifically because

• It is a very nuanced workflow that had been previously tested a lot and we knew from experience that it could reliably be highly parallelized since the individual database entriers are independent. It took me a few initial runs to adjust some minor things to the Claude Code Web environment but then it ran just as smoothly as in my terminal.

• Facts for the database entries can be easily checked with web searches, but usually require checking various sources and aggregating a lot of information. Claude Code usually performs something between 10 and 30 web searches to verify all the factual claims in one entry, which is the bulk of the cost. Analyzing 100 entries takes about 2000 web searches plus a bunch of additional work.

• It actually provides significant value because the database that contains client-facing information now can be turned into something more professional and detailed with much less effort because our domain expert can just evaluate Claude's detailed reports on issues and double check the various sources and links it has provided. The actual value are literally hundreds of hours of work saved.

So, the question is: will I keep using Claude Code Web with my Claude Max subscription going forward? Yes, but only occasionally for now. I still prefer the terminal for more complex things and the fact that it spins up a new environment every time comes with some drawbacks. But I think it is quite decent for long-running established or simple workflows that you can just kick off and then forget about. For these it can be nice to just kick them off and be able to close my laptop. The only other application I honestly see is coding from my phone, which I don't expect I will be doing a lot but I think occasionally it will be helpful.

TL;DR: I gave Claude Code Web a highly parallelizable fact-checking task that requires a lot of web searches from different sources. Used the 1000$ free credits to do in an evening what would have required hundreds of hours of human work.

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.

For those who have them (particularly $1k). I’m curious how are you spending them down? Are you using it in the same way as the cli tool?

Initially, I had no idea what to do with credits. I'm on the Max plan and don't generally hit weekly limits so didn't have any work piled up or any pressing needs.

So I started thinking outside of my core projects and instead focused more on fun ideas...

Enter One Piece!

Since the pandemic I've been into the amazing anime series One Piece. For those that don't know, One Piece is a long running Japanese anime series (over 1000 episodes) about pirates who are fighting for freedom in a magical world (that's all I'll say, watch the show!).

When I started watching the show late into its run, I wanted to talk to people about it, but quickly realized that even searching for episode specific conversations would lead to spoilers!! So I greedily talked about the show with my friends who I knew had seen it, but I could tell they were being extremely careful (and almost annoyed since they were way ahead of me) not to reveal spoilers.

Then it hit me, could I used these Claude Code Web credits to build the website I wanted? An episode by episode discussion site with a spoiler awareness feature?

So that's the idea! Using with Claude Code, I created a resarch strategy and core data structures that would populate the website. Next, since the website will have a dedicated page for each episode, I created a agentic research prompt to send out agents to build the episode data and gather related information (like fan theories).

And this is where Claude Code Web truly shines. Since it's using an isolated environment, agentic web searches are not risking prompt injection on my own system but Claude's sandbox. Much better IMO.

So Monday night I started doing the episodic research using Claude Code Web with a detailed research prompt (286 lines of direction) and it worked like a charm. Claude was able to search the web, find information about the One Piece episode, and create the necessary data structures for the webpage. Each episode cost between $1-4 in API credits, the cost is probably higher than it needs to be because I did not spend any time optimizing the research prompt and actually encouraged the agent to find multiple sources to ensure accuracy. Web searches are probably costly to anthropic so I expected the research cost to be high.

Overall, I was able to spend the full $1000 in credits and completed research on ~340 episodes. I plan on continuing the research each week on the last day of weekly usage limit and maybe will actually hit the weekly limit for a few weeks as I finish this fun project.

Hopefully the next post I make on this subreddit is the full website!

My weekly limit for the Claude Code 20x Max plan ran out yesterday, and I saw the $1,000 free credits for using Claude Code on the web. I used it for about a day because my limits were about to reset late this afternoon. It seems like that free credit is not really free — it gets deducted from your Claude Code limits. I used about $86 worth of credits in a roughly 16-hour period.

Now my Claude Code and Claude Max subscription usage shows I've already used 9% of my weekly limit. This is crazy. I also keep getting a permissions issue. It definitely seems like a bug, and someone from Anthropic is looking at it.

Would you please fix it? Using 9% of the weekly limit within a few hours (within 4 hours) is unacceptable. I usually use about 30–40% of my weekly limit, but this week I had a couple of projects and exhausted my limit. This behavior is worrying — would someone please look at it and fix it immediately?

I have also filed a bug report for the same.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers!

Hello! Long time user of Claude, recently started using Claude Code after joining the webinar where they gave every attendee $25 of free credits.

I use Claude in the UI whenever possible, but obviously the terminal access can be extremely helpful sometimes so my credits are slowly dwindling.

I'm a PhD candidate working on a side project in my free time, so I'm a bit cost-sensitive, so I was wondering if anyone knew of other ways to get free Claude Code credits?

No worries if not, I'm sure I'll be budgeting for Max sooner or later anyway :p

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.

30 mins past the deadline and my ~$350 in credits remaining (WOW have they been hard to spend), has just turned into $1000.

Same for anyone else?

I've been playing with the $1000 in credits for the Claude Code Research Preview the past 2 weeks, of which the trial ends today. I've spent a total of exactly $700.

I have spent the better part of today trying to squeeze the remaining credits, to my surprise I got an addtional $1000 to spend within the week!

Did anyone else get topped up?

Understandably, this is usage dependent but I'm curious to know what's the typical usage rates for readers of this sub.

I have $330 Claude credits expiring in 1 week.

What have you guys found to be the best use of the API? I find day to day, gemini api accomplishes most of what I need for a much lower cost so I can't think of a good use for these remaining credits.

How would you use these credits? When is Claude worth the price increase?

For reference

• Gemini 2.0 Flash -> Input $0.10 / 1M tokens, Output $0.40 / 1M tokens

• Gemini 1.5 Pro -> Input $1.25 / 1M tokens, Output $5.00 / 1M tokens

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet -> Input $3 / 1M tokens, Output $15 / 1M tokens

I use cursor for coding, OpenAI subscription for deep research.

What do I need Claude for anymore... It's 2-3x the price.

Is there a cool open source project I should try out that requires a smarter model? Is there an app idea/workflow that requires using a smarter model that I can add to my workflow in the next week?

Is there a way to sell these credits?

Terrible UI. Very confusing. Don't make the mistake I made.

My 'credits rolled back over to $1000 this morning, but the number is not going down. After 15 prompts I've used 58% of my 4hr quota.

The promotional period is OVER.

On Claude Code when hovering over the promo credits I got as a Pro user I now see "Try Claude Code on the web, on us. We've added $250 in free usage credits to your account, applied automatically. Use before November 23."

The explainer page however still says the promo credits expire November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.

Riddle me that

hi everyone, i’ve been using claude on the $20 plan and if i manage the 5-hour windows well, i can work just fine even on serious projects with a pretty large codebase. i end up using around $30 worth of credits per day, so i’m really curious how people on the $100 or $200 plans are fully using them.

what kind of tasks are you running that actually consume that much? are you doing things like constant fine-tuning, large-scale data work, or just leaving long sessions open all day with lots of back and forth?

i’m wondering if i’m underutilizing claude or if it’s just a different usage pattern. would love to hear how you’re making the most of it

I want to test Claude Code using the limited free credits I believe you get with a non Pro account. To do this which login method should I use:

1. Claude account with subscription Starting at $20/mo for Pro, $100/mo for Max - Best value, predictable pricing

2. Anthropic Console account API usage billing

How many credits (and money) should i expect claude code to use per prompt? To give you an understanding my repo has around 60k lines of code. Also if I buy credits can I be sure that it won't automatically charge for more once they end? I would like to avoid going on a bread and water diet on the next month because of AI

Did you guys receive this as well?