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Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

212 points by rob 8mo ago

jmkni 8mo ago
So much cynicism here, I for one am loving Opus and appreciate this
nezhar 8mo ago
You can use this if you started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Go to https://claude.ai/settings/usage https://claude.ai/settings/usage, turn on extra usage and enable the promo from the notification afterwards. I received €42, top up was not required and auto-reload is off.
onion2k 8mo ago
You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Ah well. Back to Codex.
CosmicShadow 8mo ago
Is this one of those, Hey turn off the overcharge protection because you can go $50 into debt for free, and then maybe you'll just keep going and not notice you owe us an extra $500 type of situations?
- Ethee 8mo ago
  I was worried about this when I turned it on myself, but under the usage panel it shows that it limited my spending to just the $50 and that auto-reload is off, so it doesn't seem this would be the case.
  - nezhar 8mo ago
    There is also an Auto-reload option, I think it is off by default.
    - dude250711 8mo ago
      You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded software...
      - sxg 8mo ago
        The underreported story is how we over-trust human-coded software.
        falloutx 8mo ago
        Too true, lets not trust any software.
        ninjha 8mo ago
        most slop is human slop, who do you think claude learned from :)
      - deleted 8mo ago
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      - JumpCrisscross 8mo ago
        > You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded software... Nope. I'm putting a lot of trust in American Express and the continued availability of Claude competitors.
  - brulard 8mo ago
    I turned on this overspend and limited the spending to $20. A day later I checked my spending, I had used "295%" of my limit. Almost $60. No idea why it didn't respect my setting.
smcleod 8mo ago
Considering all the problems they've been having with over-charging Claude Code users over the past few weeks it's the very least they could do. Max subscribers are hitting their 5 hour usage limits in 30-40 minutes with a single instance doing light work, while Anthropic have no support or contact mechanism for users that they respond to.
- coffeefirst 8mo ago
  Wait, if it burns through a $200/mo allotment that fast, what are all these people who “barely wrote code anymore” doing?
  - deleted 8mo ago
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  - input_sh 8mo ago
    You hit a vague, never-quite-explained 5h window limit that has nothing to do with what you're doing, but with what every user is doing together. It's totally not downtime, you're just "using it too much" and they're telling you to fuck off until the overall usage slows down. The order of priority is: everyone using the API (you don't want to calculate the price) → everyone on a $200/month plan → everyone on a $20/month plan → every free user.
    - huflungdung 8mo ago
      [dead]
    - 8note 8mo ago
      you can just watch the limit on the claude usage settings view. itd be nice to know how much the session context window applies wrt token caching, but disabling all those skills and stopping sending a screenshot every couple messages gets that 5hour limit and weekly limit a bunch better
    - 00deadbeef 8mo ago
      Yeah it's way too vague. This morning: (new chat) 42 seconds of thinking, 20 lines of code changed in 4 files = 5% usage Last night: 25 minutes of thinking, 150 lines of code generated in 10 new files = 7% usage
dr_dshiv 8mo ago
They are trying to breed more whales
2001zhaozhao 8mo ago
I mean, it's a nice gesture. I use extra usage a little bit when the quota runs out and I'm still in the middle of a task. (Afterwards I switch to other agents that track limits monthly instead of by 5 hour window.) This $50 credits should last a while.
- magospietato 8mo ago
  Expires after 60 days per the link. In case you're thinking of stretching it out beyond a couple of months.
gpm 8mo ago
Meanwhile codex is running a free tier for a month right now for anyone who wants to experiment with it: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/ Doesn't appear to include the new model though, only the state-of-yesterdays-art (literally yesterdays).
- teaearlgraycold 8mo ago
  I have access to 5.3 in the Codex desktop app. I'm really not pleased with the desktop software (insane performance issues) but the LLM is good.
Reagan_Ridley 8mo ago
I'll pass on this $50, but please hire real human and fix your crappy app, Claude! This bug has been for years: in Claude (web or app), if you create a new chat at the middle of existing chat thinking or tool calling, the existing chat will be broken, either losing data, or become unusable. It's unbelievable Anthropic worth hundreds of billions but can't fix this.
- nmfisher 8mo ago
  I get this regularly too, it's very annoying. I've started using one git worktree per Claude session specifically to avoid this issue.
- moffkalast 8mo ago
  My favorite bug is when I spend 5 minutes writing something and send it, then something breaks and refreshes, deleting the whole thing. Like, thanks, much appreciated, please waste more of my time.
  - bonsai_spool 8mo ago
    Sometimes you can recover it by refreshing the page where you lost the text.
  - jimmydoe 8mo ago
    Yes!! The whole chat part of app is flaky as hell! Sometimes I think it’s better to just use code tab to chat knowing that’s more reliable.
  - sobjornstad 8mo ago
    Literally every time if I press the "stop" button while it's writing back for the first conversation turn because I notice I forgot something and want to correct it, my prompt is lost. Anytime I run into a bug like this, part of me wants to go calculate how much of humanity's collective time has been wasted by one company not fixing a trivial bug. It's got to be a lot.
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CyberDildonics 8mo ago
The AI spam on this site is way out of control. It's every single article on the front page.
- xvector 8mo ago
  So weird seeing comments like this on HN. AI is the most revolutionary technology in programming and computing, perhaps since the first programs were made. Of course it's going to be the most talked about topic.
  - CyberDildonics 8mo ago
    I remember all the other "most revolutionary technologies" too. It isn't just the most talked about topic, almost every single link is some point release or random blog entry about "my journey".
chinathrow 8mo ago
I think this enabled a default overusage allowance of USD 50 on my account - which I'm sure was never active before.
copilot_king 8mo ago
[dead]
VikingCoder 8mo ago
It'll be nice to see how quickly I burn through this free money with auto-reload off. Unless they somehow say, "You owe us $181,902, bucko! Turning off auto-reload just meant 'Don't add more money to pay off your debt!' It didn't mean, 'Don't incur more debt!' SUCKER!"
darqis 8mo ago
I'll certainly not enable extra usage. This is a trap. Keep your "credits"

212 points by rob 8mo ago

jmkni 8mo ago

So much cynicism here, I for one am loving Opus and appreciate this

You can use this if you started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Go to https://claude.ai/settings/usage https://claude.ai/settings/usage, turn on extra usage and enable the promo from the notification afterwards. I received €42, top up was not required and auto-reload is off.

onion2k 8mo ago

You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Ah well. Back to Codex.

CosmicShadow 8mo ago

Is this one of those, Hey turn off the overcharge protection because you can go $50 into debt for free, and then maybe you'll just keep going and not notice you owe us an extra $500 type of situations?

Ethee 8mo ago
I was worried about this when I turned it on myself, but under the usage panel it shows that it limited my spending to just the $50 and that auto-reload is off, so it doesn't seem this would be the case.
- nezhar 8mo ago
  There is also an Auto-reload option, I think it is off by default.
  - dude250711 8mo ago
    You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded software...
    - sxg 8mo ago
      The underreported story is how we over-trust human-coded software.
      - falloutx 8mo ago
        Too true, lets not trust any software.
      - ninjha 8mo ago
        most slop is human slop, who do you think claude learned from :)
    - deleted 8mo ago
      [deleted]
    - JumpCrisscross 8mo ago
      > You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded software... Nope. I'm putting a lot of trust in American Express and the continued availability of Claude competitors.
- brulard 8mo ago
  I turned on this overspend and limited the spending to $20. A day later I checked my spending, I had used "295%" of my limit. Almost $60. No idea why it didn't respect my setting.

smcleod 8mo ago

Considering all the problems they've been having with over-charging Claude Code users over the past few weeks it's the very least they could do. Max subscribers are hitting their 5 hour usage limits in 30-40 minutes with a single instance doing light work, while Anthropic have no support or contact mechanism for users that they respond to.

coffeefirst 8mo ago
Wait, if it burns through a $200/mo allotment that fast, what are all these people who “barely wrote code anymore” doing?
- deleted 8mo ago
  [deleted]
- input_sh 8mo ago
  You hit a vague, never-quite-explained 5h window limit that has nothing to do with what you're doing, but with what every user is doing together. It's totally not downtime, you're just "using it too much" and they're telling you to fuck off until the overall usage slows down. The order of priority is: everyone using the API (you don't want to calculate the price) → everyone on a $200/month plan → everyone on a $20/month plan → every free user.
  - huflungdung 8mo ago
    [dead]
  - 8note 8mo ago
    you can just watch the limit on the claude usage settings view. itd be nice to know how much the session context window applies wrt token caching, but disabling all those skills and stopping sending a screenshot every couple messages gets that 5hour limit and weekly limit a bunch better
  - 00deadbeef 8mo ago
    Yeah it's way too vague. This morning: (new chat) 42 seconds of thinking, 20 lines of code changed in 4 files = 5% usage Last night: 25 minutes of thinking, 150 lines of code generated in 10 new files = 7% usage

dr_dshiv 8mo ago

They are trying to breed more whales

2001zhaozhao 8mo ago

I mean, it's a nice gesture. I use extra usage a little bit when the quota runs out and I'm still in the middle of a task. (Afterwards I switch to other agents that track limits monthly instead of by 5 hour window.) This $50 credits should last a while.

magospietato 8mo ago
Expires after 60 days per the link. In case you're thinking of stretching it out beyond a couple of months.

gpm 8mo ago

Meanwhile codex is running a free tier for a month right now for anyone who wants to experiment with it: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/ Doesn't appear to include the new model though, only the state-of-yesterdays-art (literally yesterdays).

teaearlgraycold 8mo ago
I have access to 5.3 in the Codex desktop app. I'm really not pleased with the desktop software (insane performance issues) but the LLM is good.

Reagan_Ridley 8mo ago

I'll pass on this $50, but please hire real human and fix your crappy app, Claude! This bug has been for years: in Claude (web or app), if you create a new chat at the middle of existing chat thinking or tool calling, the existing chat will be broken, either losing data, or become unusable. It's unbelievable Anthropic worth hundreds of billions but can't fix this.

nmfisher 8mo ago
I get this regularly too, it's very annoying. I've started using one git worktree per Claude session specifically to avoid this issue.
moffkalast 8mo ago
My favorite bug is when I spend 5 minutes writing something and send it, then something breaks and refreshes, deleting the whole thing. Like, thanks, much appreciated, please waste more of my time.
- bonsai_spool 8mo ago
  Sometimes you can recover it by refreshing the page where you lost the text.
- jimmydoe 8mo ago
  Yes!! The whole chat part of app is flaky as hell! Sometimes I think it’s better to just use code tab to chat knowing that’s more reliable.
- sobjornstad 8mo ago
  Literally every time if I press the "stop" button while it's writing back for the first conversation turn because I notice I forgot something and want to correct it, my prompt is lost. Anytime I run into a bug like this, part of me wants to go calculate how much of humanity's collective time has been wasted by one company not fixing a trivial bug. It's got to be a lot.

deleted 8mo ago

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CyberDildonics 8mo ago

The AI spam on this site is way out of control. It's every single article on the front page.

xvector 8mo ago
So weird seeing comments like this on HN. AI is the most revolutionary technology in programming and computing, perhaps since the first programs were made. Of course it's going to be the most talked about topic.
- CyberDildonics 8mo ago
  I remember all the other "most revolutionary technologies" too. It isn't just the most talked about topic, almost every single link is some point release or random blog entry about "my journey".

chinathrow 8mo ago

I think this enabled a default overusage allowance of USD 50 on my account - which I'm sure was never active before.

copilot_king 8mo ago

[dead]

VikingCoder 8mo ago

It'll be nice to see how quickly I burn through this free money with auto-reload off. Unless they somehow say, "You owe us $181,902, bucko! Turning off auto-reload just meant 'Don't add more money to pay off your debt!' It didn't mean, 'Don't incur more debt!' SUCKER!"

darqis 8mo ago

I'll certainly not enable extra usage. This is a trap. Keep your "credits"