27th February 2026 - Link Blog
Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers (via) Anthropic are now offering their $200/month Claude Max 20x plan for free to open source maintainers... for six months... and you have to meet the following criteria:
- Maintainers: You're a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months.
- Don't quite fit the criteria If you maintain something the ecosystem quietly depends on, apply anyway and tell us about it.
Also in the small print: "Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We accept up to 10,000 contributors".
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