What's this about?
Max 5x gets $100 and Max 20x $200 monthly. Team pools $20 per Standard seat and $100 per Premium seat, capped at $500. Credits require a linked Console organization; interactive Claude Code and plan overage are excluded.
What exactly is API credit?
A prepaid allowance for software calling a model, separate from the limits of the chat subscription.
What's the community saying / why does it matter?
Thariq’s example received 1,728 likes. It demonstrates building personal software with the allowance, rather than establishing its cost or quality. Self-run claude -p needs the linked organization’s API key to use these credits.