{"slug": "claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase", "title": "Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase", "summary": "Anthropic notified Claude users by email that usage credits purchased on or after December 7 will expire 12 months after the purchase date, with any unused amount removed from the balance after that period. The change was reported on Hacker News by user bbg2401, who said they received the notice directly.", "body_md": "| [Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D50399909) | \n\n|  |  | [Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase](item?id=50399909) | \n|  |  | 2 points by [bbg2401](user?id=bbg2401)[22 minutes ago](item?id=50399909) \\|[hide](hide?id=50399909&goto=item%3Fid%3D50399909) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Claude%20usage%20credits%20purchased%20after%20Dec%207%20will%20expire%2012%20months%20after%20purchase&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=50399909) \\|[discuss](item?id=50399909) | \n|  |  | Just received this via email: > Usage credits purchased on or after December 7 will expire 12 months after the purchase date. Any unused amount after 12 months will be removed from your balance. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399909", "published_at": "2026-11-06 23:27:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-06 23:50:22.610132+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Hacker News", "bbg2401"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-usage-credits-purchased-after-dec-7-will-expire-12-months-after-purchase.jsonld"}}