6 months of free Claude Max 20x for open source maintaners

[tassa-yoniso-manasi-karoto]

Hello,
Anthropic has this program to provide Max20 subscriptions for free to maintainers of major open source projects: https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

Anki & Ankidroid likely fit under that umbrella so I thought you'd be interested to hear about this if you haven't already.

pinging ankidroid too: @david-allison @BrayanDSO @criticalAY @ericli3690 @lukstbit @mikehardy

Eligibility recap

_{made by 5.6-sol but shh...}🤫

Legend:

• ✅ Supported by public evidence
• 🟡 Depends on the individual applicant
• ❓ Not verified

Claude for OSS criterion	Anki (ankitects/anki)	AnkiDroid (ankidroid/Anki-Android)
500+ dependent repositories or 100+ dependent packages, aggregated across projects maintained by the applicant	✅ GitHub currently reports 561 dependent repositories and 25 dependent packages, so Anki appears to satisfy the 500-repository threshold by itself. Dependency graph	⚪ GitHub currently reports 19 dependent repositories and 5 dependent packages. This repository alone does not reach the threshold, although an applicant may aggregate multiple projects they maintain. Dependency graph
200,000+ combined monthly downloads across public package registries	❓ Not verified. Application-store downloads should not automatically be treated as package-registry downloads. This criterion is not needed because other routes appear to be met.	❓ Not verified. Application-store downloads should not automatically be treated as package-registry downloads. This criterion is not needed because another route appears to be met.
Applicant authored 100+ merged PRs into public repositories they do not own during the preceding 12 months	🟡 Applicant-specific; each maintainer would need to check their own GitHub activity.	🟡 Applicant-specific; each maintainer would need to check their own GitHub activity.
A repository maintained by the applicant had 20+ unique external contributors with merged PRs during the preceding 12 months	✅ Strong public evidence. For 2025-09-03 through 2026-09-03, at least 22 distinct merged-PR authors are displayed by GitHub as Contributor, separately from authors displayed as Member or Bot. Merged PR search	✅ Strong public evidence. For 2025-09-03 through 2026-09-03, at least 34 distinct authors had merged PRs carrying the project's New contributor label. Merged new-contributor PR search
Repository has an OpenSSF Criticality Score ≥ 0.4	✅ 0.57264	✅ 0.57995
Applicant maintains or contributes to a project under an OSI-approved license — a general eligibility requirement	✅ Anki is primarily licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later, with some components under BSD and other open-source licenses. License	✅ AnkiDroid uses GPL-3.0, with some components under AGPL-3.0 and LGPL-3.0. License information
Discretionary Ecosystem Impact Track	🟡 Potential fallback based on Anki's ecosystem impact, but probably unnecessary because objective Maintainer Track criteria already appear to be met.	🟡 Potential fallback based on AnkiDroid's ecosystem impact, but probably unnecessary because the community-builder criterion appears to be met.

Overall assessment

Project	Strongest qualifying route	Assessment
Anki	500+ dependent repositories	✅ Appears to satisfy this criterion with 561 dependent repositories
Anki	20+ external merged-PR contributors in the preceding 12 months	✅ Appears to satisfy this criterion with a conservative public count of at least 22
AnkiDroid	20+ external merged-PR contributors in the preceding 12 months	✅ Appears to satisfy this criterion with a conservative public count of at least 34

[david-allison]

Thanks!

I've already been accepted into the programme, I have both Claude Max 20x and ChatGPT Pro

Other AnkiDroid maintainers haven't had a response.

Ref for OpenAI:

• https://developers.openai.com/community/codex-for-oss
• https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/

[abdnh]

I applied and got accepted too (after two attempts).

[criticalAY]

Have applied multiple times, no luck