Anthropic Adds Up to $500 in Monthly API Credits for Max and Team Plans

Anthropic is adding free monthly API credits to its Max and Team plans, with Max 5x and Max 20x subscribers receiving $100 and $200 respectively, and Team plan users accessing a shared pool of up to $500. The credits work with any model on the platform, including Haiku 5.5, and follow a recent halving of cache read prices for Claude Sonnet 5.5 to $0.10 per million tokens. Some market observers suggest these moves give Anthropic a pricing advantage over OpenAI, and analysts speculate the company has finalized its IPO filings.