Anthropic rolls out up to $250 in free Claude Code credits, but only for cloud sessions

Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free promotional credits.

Cloud sessions run Claude Code on Anthropic's infrastructure instead of your own computer, so you can start a task, leave it running remotely, and return later to review the work.

"Cloud sessions run on Anthropic-hosted infrastructure, so the work keeps going even without your computer running," Anthropic explained.

In our tests, we observed that you can start a cloud session from claude.ai/code, the Code section of the Claude mobile app, the desktop app, or the CLI using claude --cloud.

Claude Code's cloud sessions have been available to some users via research preview, but now they're officially available to eligible subscribers, and Anthropic is offering free usage credits to encourage existing subscribers to try them.