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Anthropic Grants Claude Max Access To Maintainers
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Anthropic 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.
Key Points
- 1Provides free six-month Claude Max 20x access to qualifying open-source maintainers
- 2Targets high-impact projects (5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ NPM downloads) to support maintenance
- 3Enables maintainers to run costly model workloads, improving project development and tooling workflows
Scoring Rationale
Program materially expands paid-tier access for maintainers, but shallow details and eligibility limit immediate universality.
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