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Anthropic Grants Claude Max Access To Maintainers
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Relevance ScoreAnthropic on 27 February 2026 is offering its $200/month Claude Max 20x plan free for six months to qualifying open-source maintainers. Applicants must be primary maintainers of public repos with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads and recent contributions; applications are rolling and Anthropic may accept up to 10,000 contributors.
Scoring Rationale
Program materially expands paid-tier access for maintainers, but shallow details and eligibility limit immediate universality.
Sources
- Read OriginalFree Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainerssimonwillison.net
