--- title: Why Anthropic just doubled Claude Cowork limits at no charge description: Anthropic is running a limited-time promotion (June 5–July 5, 2026) that doubles the 5-hour usage limits in Claude Cowork at no extra cost for Pro, Max, Team,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-anthropic-just-doubled-claude-cowork-limits-at-no-charge-uoc2w2e7f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Anthropic just doubled Claude Cowork limits at no charge | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic is running a limited-time promotion (June 5–July 5, 2026) that doubles the 5-hour usage limits in Claude Cowork at no extra cost for Pro, Max, Team,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-anthropic-just-doubled-claude-cowork-limits-at-no-charge-uoc2w2e7f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uoC2w2E7f.png og:image:alt: Why Anthropic just doubled Claude Cowork limits at no charge og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Anthropic just doubled Claude Cowork limits at no charge **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic is running a limited-time promotion (June 5–July 5, 2026) that doubles the 5-hour usage limits in Claude Cowork at no extra cost for Pro, Max, Team, and legacy Enterprise seat users. Claude Cowork is a collaborative AI environment for both non-technical knowledge workers and developers, allowing task completion across documents, data, and files. Industry experts weigh in on the strategic angle: the promotion is seen as a classic top-of-funnel lock-in play, where the real stickiness comes from embedding users in Anthropic's workflow ecosystem rather than the model itself. Switching costs are high due to tokenization incompatibility and the lack of a universal AI memory layer. Critics also note that frontier models still struggle with enterprise data complexity, and that over-reliance on MCP may be compounding the problem. After July 5, limits revert to standard levels with no billing changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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