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Anthropic Makes Claude Code Cloud Sessions Generally Available With Credits for Pro and Max Users

September 23, 2026 at 17:24 EDT

Software Dev & Coding
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Anthropic has made Claude Code cloud sessions generally available, moving the remote coding environment out of research preview and giving existing subscribers a one-time trial credit: $100 for Pro users and $250 for Max users. The feature lets Claude Code keep working after a laptop is closed, shifting long-running coding tasks from a local machine to cloud infrastructure that can be monitored from the browser, mobile app, desktop app, terminal, or scheduled routines.

Cloud sessions · Claude Code

Claude Code keeps working after the laptop closes

Cloud sessions are now generally available, turning remote coding runs into a regular Claude Code workflow with one-time credits for Pro and Max subscribers.

$100

Pro one-time credit

$250

Max one-time credit

vCPUs in hosted sessions

30 GB

Approximate hosted disk

Trial credit scale

$100

Pro

$250

Max

Max subscribers receive 2.5 times the Pro trial credit for cloud-session usage.

How a cloud run works

Start

Browser, mobile, desktop, terminal, or routine

→

Run

Anthropic-hosted or self-hosted cloud environment

→

Review

Check diffs, steer progress, or create a pull request

Why developers like it

Good fit for overnight fixes, parallel issue handling, mobile check-ins, and long tasks that should not depend on an open laptop.

Where caution remains

Hosted limits, dependency setup, network policy, and secrets handling still shape which workloads belong in the cloud.

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