--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "225e701ddaba51d196593819d4238a3cf5b76b22cfb54401fc0c9f4240833e22" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/225e701d?lang=en" title: "Anthropic Adds Up to $500 in Monthly API Credits for Max and Team Plans" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-07T20:39:21.000Z" category: "Tools" topics: ["anthropic","llm","devtools"] source_urls: ["https://huggingnews.com/ai/anthropic-adds-up-to-500-in-monthly-api-credits-for-max-and-team-plans-63d8bb9f","https://marketbrief.now/ai/anthropic-adds-up-to-500-in-monthly-api-credits-for-max-and-team-plans-63d8bb9f"] summary: "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." --- # Anthropic Adds Up to $500 in Monthly API Credits for Max and Team Plans > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-07T20:39:21.000Z **Category:** Tools **Topics:** anthropic, llm, devtools ## Summary 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\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]()