Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers
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Source: Simon Willison's WeblogFebruary 27, 2026
Summary
Anthropic is offering free access to Claude Max (their $200/month AI assistant plan) for six months to open source maintainers who meet specific criteria: primary maintainers of public repositories with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1 million+ monthly NPM downloads, with recent commits or reviews in the last three months. The program accepts up to 10,000 contributors, and maintainers who don't quite meet the stated criteria can still apply and explain their importance to the ecosystem.
Classification
Attack SophisticationTrivial
Affected Vendors
Anthropic
Related Issues
Original source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/27/claude-max-oss-six-months/#atom-everything
First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 03:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%