[HN Gopher] Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
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Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
Author : rob
Score : 63 points
Date : 2026-02-05 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| nezhar wrote:
| You can use this if you started your Pro or Max subscription
| before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT.
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| Go to https://claude.ai/settings/usage, turn on extra usage and
| enable the promo from the notification afterwards.
|
| I received EUR42, top up was not required and auto-reload is off.
| onion2k wrote:
| _You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday,
| February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT._
|
| Ah well. Back to Codex.
| CosmicShadow wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| There is also an Auto-reload option, I think it is off by
| default.
| dude250711 wrote:
| You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded
| software...
| sxg wrote:
| The underreported story is how we over-trust human-coded
| software.
| smcleod wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Wait, if it burns through a $200/mo allotment that fast, what
| are all these people who "barely wrote code anymore" doing?
| input_sh wrote:
| 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.
| mercutio2 wrote:
| It hadn't occurred to me this was a billing bug.
|
| That would be heartening, if I wasn't consuming tokens 10x as
| fast as expected, and they just had attribution bugs.
|
| Do you have references to this being documented as the actual
| issue, or is this just speculation?
|
| I want to support Anthropic, but with the Codex desktop app *so
| much better* than Anthropic's combined with the old "5 back and
| forths with Opus and your quota is gone", it's hard to see
| going back
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| They are trying to breed more whales
| jmkni wrote:
| So much cynicism here, I for one am loving Opus and appreciate
| this
| 2001zhaozhao wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Expires after 60 days per the link. In case you're thinking of
| stretching it out beyond a couple of months.
| gpm wrote:
| 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/
|
| Doesn't appear to include the new model though, only the state-
| of-yesterdays-art (literally yesterdays).
| Reagan_Ridley wrote:
| 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.
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