Anthropic Adds Free Claude Users to Its 50% Artifact-Usage Promotion

Anthropic added Free Claude plans to its artifact-usage promotion on October 7, 2026, giving eligible work a 50% reduction in usage counted against five-hour session limits. The offer covers creating or editing artifacts, including documents, slides and designs—not every conversation. It ends October 15, with different discount windows for chats and cloud-based Claude Cowork tasks.

Free-plan eligibility began at 10:00 AM PT on October 7; earlier usage is not discounted. Pro, Max and Team users have been eligible since October 1. The scheduled cutoff for everyone is October 15 at 11:59 PM PT. Eligible accounts receive the promotion automatically, without entering a code or turning on a setting.

In a Claude chat, creating or editing an artifact discounts the next 10 messages in that conversation. After those messages, usage counts at the standard rate until Claude creates or edits another artifact in the same chat, restarting the window. The promotion applies to eligible chats on the web, desktop and mobile.

Choosing Document, Presentation or Design from the Output menu when starting a new chat makes the discount apply from the first message. Starting with a regular chat works differently: the message where Claude first creates the artifact counts at the standard rate. The next 10 messages receive the discount.

There is also a cap inside each reply. Only the first 15 steps—such as searches, tool use or artifact updates—can be discounted. Further steps in that reply count at the standard rate.

For Claude Cowork, the offer applies only to tasks running in the cloud, not locally in Claude Desktop. Starting a new cloud task by choosing Document, Presentation or Design gives about the first 45 minutes of that task the discounted usage rate.

In other cloud tasks, including those moved into a Workspace, creating or editing an artifact can discount up to the next 80 steps. Those steps can include searches, tool use and artifact updates. Creating or editing another artifact restarts the discount.

Work that stays outside the offer

• All Enterprise plans are excluded, whether seat-based or usage-based.
• Claude Code, Claude API, Claude in Slack, and scheduled or unattended tasks do not qualify.
• Older-version artifacts and Google Docs, Sheets or Slides made through the Google Drive connector are excluded.
• Work in the standalone Claude Design app is excluded, even when published as an artifact. Designs made within Claude are included.

The promotion’s terms also allow Anthropic to change or end the offer early. October 15 is the scheduled endpoint, rather than an unconditional guarantee of availability through that date.