Anthropic opens 10,000 Claude science seats

Anthropic opened 10,000 free Claude subscription seats for scientists for one year, with premium seats offering five times the usage limit for $15 per month. Its Claude Team plan for scientists announcement says principal investigators at academic or nonprofit institutions can verify their labs, while the AI for Science program can provide up to $50,000 in project credits. Scientific teams should treat the subsidy as an evaluation lane rather than proof of research ROI: instrument citation, review, and compute costs before committing workflows to one model, alongside the archive’s analysis of Anthropic’s premium-token economics.