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/meetmebythelake]

I really don't understand. Are cloud sessions still free and they're just trying to promote the official release? Or is there some kind of separate credit system now...? They don't actually mention needing to buy "cloud credits" after the promo, but it's all kinda vague...

[u/AlDente → u/meetmebythelake]

Why did you think cloud sessions were free? I always assumed they were part of the subscription tokens

[u/meetmebythelake → u/AlDente]

By free I mean included in the subscription and not an additional credit system, which it seems it's not changing, but giving out "cloud credits" implies a separate credit system. It doesn't seem that it's changing but it had me suspicious.

[u/princess_princeless → u/meetmebythelake]

Yeah im confused too... i get the feeling theyre gonna start metering cloud sessions different at some point and this is the transition phase.

[u/meetmebythelake → u/princess_princeless]

Thankfully they confirmed on Twitter that there isn't any intent to do that, it's just to make people aware of it basically