Free Claude Max for Open Source Heroes!

business#llms📝 Blog|Analyzed: Feb 27, 2026 18:32
Published: Feb 27, 2026 18:08
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Simon Willison

Analysis

Anthropic is generously offering free access to their premium Claude Max plan to deserving open-source maintainers. This is fantastic news for developers, as it provides them with powerful tools to improve their projects. This offer will greatly aid in fostering innovation and collaboration within the open-source community.
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"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."
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Simon WillisonFeb 27, 2026 18:08
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