If you pay for Claude Max, you're leaving $100/month on the table.
Max now includes API credits equal to your plan price. Most people haven't claimed them.
claude (browser) > Settings > Billing > API credits > Link organization
No rollover. Use it or lose it. [media]
Updated Oct 23, 2026, 10:59 UTC
Monthly API credits for Claude Max and Team plans
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Max and Team subscribers get a monthly Claude API balance to build their own apps and agents.
- Value
- Max 5x $100/mo; Max 20x $200/mo; Team $20 per Standard seat and $100 per Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500/mo
- Who qualifies
- Active Max or Team subscribers after 7 days on the plan; Free, Pro, and Enterprise not eligible
- How to claim
- On claude.ai go to Settings > Billing (Team: Organization settings > Billing), choose Link organization, pick a Console org
- Expiry
- ongoing (credits expire at the end of each billing cycle)
- Released
- Oct 7, 2026 Source ↗
- Status
- Live
- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026
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Claude has just given me $500 in API credits per month for my Teams organization for free. New additions to the previous free $1000 for 6 months. Thanks to Claude for Startups [media]
Notes and caveats
No rollover. Team credit is pooled from $20 per Standard seat and $100 per Premium seat and capped at $500/mo, so smaller teams get less. Comes with the Max or Team plan; not part of Claude Startups. Does not cover interactive Claude Code, extra usage, or Bedrock, Vertex, or Foundry. Only one Console org can be linked. Still rolling out over a few days.
Official sources
Last updated Oct 23, 2026, 10:59 UTC · last verified Oct 23, 2026