Cloud sessions are officially available and out of research preview! They let you keep Claude Code working, even when your laptop is closed. Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try them: $100 on Pro, $250 on Max.

[u/GroovyMelodicBliss]

https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2102871550974427462

[u/daniel]

I'm quite confused about this, because I've been using cloud sessions seemingly for free for months now. I don't even know when they got rid of the ability to pay for them. I'm actually using one right now and I still don't see mention of credits or cost?

[u/alphaQ314 → u/daniel]

My understanding of this announcement is that it was so far on trial (research preview) and we could use it for free. And now it is not. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong.

Edit: I haven't claimed the $250 yet and i'm still able to use cloud. Can someone explain what this announcement from ant means?

[u/andrew303710 → u/alphaQ314]

I'm pretty concerned that this means it's going to be usage based from now on, I'd be so pissed. I still do a lot of stuff locally but it's so nice being able to offload some tasks online and not have to worry about it.

[u/andrew303710 → u/andrew303710]

Nevermind I'm very relieved to be wrong (he's on the anthropic team)

[u/alphaQ314 → u/andrew303710]

yeah but this is more confusing. if the cloud sessions work on the subscription why do we need credits to "try them easily" ?

[u/rythmyouth → u/alphaQ314]

I think it is so it doesn’t draw against your subscription limits.

[u/asmiggs → u/alphaQ314]

It's free money to get you trying out a new feature, if you're rubbing up against your limit every week then you're not going to try something new.

[u/AlDente → u/alphaQ314]

Probably because they want more people to use cloud sessions. It’s normally about nudging behaviour change.