Claude for Open Source
About this opportunity
Launched February 2026, Anthropic's program for qualifying open source project maintainers. Provides 6 months of Claude Max 20x access (consumer subscription, not API credits). Requires demonstrated maintainer status and significant project visibility (5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly npm downloads, or equivalent community dependency). 10,000 total spots available.
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