OpenAI and Anthropic announced new access offers for their AI coding tools on Wednesday, as competition for developer and enterprise users continues to grow.

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said companies that sign up within the next 30 days can get two months of free Codex usage. He said OpenAI wants to make Codex easier to try for businesses considering a switch.

Less than an hour later, Anthropic said it was increasing Claude Code’s weekly limits by 50% until July 13. The higher limits are live for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users.

The announcements show how OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to attract users who rely on AI tools for software development.

Codex and Claude Code are both aimed at developers and teams that use AI to write, review, debug, and manage code. These tools have become more important as companies try to turn AI models into practical workplace products.

codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try.

for the next 30 days, we are giving companies that want to try switching over two months of free codex usage.

— Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2026

Anthropic’s move comes less than a month after it released Opus 4.7, a model it said improved Claude’s coding and reasoning abilities. However, some users criticized the model for making simple mistakes and using tokens faster than earlier versions.

High token use has become a common complaint among heavy AI coding users.

The issue matters because agentic coding tools can consume large amounts of context while reading files, planning changes, and running multi-step tasks. That can quickly reduce how much users can do within a subscription limit.

Anthropic’s 50% weekly limit increase appears aimed at easing that pressure, at least temporarily.

The offers come as both companies compete for high-spending corporate users.

OpenAI and Anthropic have reached very high valuations, making paid adoption and enterprise retention more important. Business Insider reported that Anthropic has received investment offers at an $800 billion valuation, while OpenAI is valued at about $840 billion.

The latest offers suggest both companies are willing to reduce friction for developers and companies as the AI coding market becomes more competitive.

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