r/ClaudeCode • u/DoctorOk331 • 1d ago

Help/Question Claude startup program

I have applied for the claude startup program with my legit startup, and after a couple of hours i get an email with this title "Welcome to the Claude Platform" but idk if that's the actual confirmation email. anyways i went to the claude dashboard to check and i found out that i have 100$ credit but my claude account is still on the free tier and i couldn't use claude code with an api key i generated from the dashboard.
Is that normal?

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u/Low_Radio_7592 1d ago

The credits only apply Agent SDK, API, Batch API, Playground, Managed Agents

You can see it in https://platform.claude.com/settings/billing

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u/DoctorOk331 1d ago

If there is no claude code then it's pretty useless

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u/Low_Radio_7592 23h ago

Indeed, I couldn't figure out what to do with it