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Anthropic expands free and discounted Claude access for scientists

Premium seats cost $15 a month for five times the standard usage limit, and the separate credits programme now reaches fields beyond biology such as mathematics research.

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Anthropic said it would offer 10,000 free standard seats to scientists, plus a premium tier priced at $15 a month giving five times the usage of a standard seat, and that it intends to extend the offer well beyond that initial 10,000 as capacity allows. The company did not commit to a timeline for further expansion.

The announcement also widened Anthropic’s separate AI for Science credits programme, previously focused on biology, to other compute-heavy fields — citing mathematics research, including work on the Riemann zeta function, as one example of what it expects to fund.

The expansion extended a broader pattern of Anthropic subsidising access for scientific and public-interest users, and followed its report, nine days earlier, that Claude had helped design experimentally validated protein binders — part of a wider case the company has been making that scientific acceleration is among the clearest justifications for frontier AI investment.

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