In this article I am going to set up Claude code on the cmd line in Ubuntu 24.04.

Set up account

Head over to https://platform.claude.com/

And sign up for an account
Enter your email, and click Continue with email.

You will have an email sent to you.
Open it up

You should see this now.
I am going to go with Organization. I have some ideas for that and I have a feeling I might get some more tools.

Fill it out and click Create Account.

Click on Settings

Click Workspaces and click + Add Workspace

I am going to name it after my user (myself) and click Create.

Open API keys.

Click +Create Key

Select your workspace

Give it a name and click add

Copy the key and save it somewhere for now and click close

If I go back to workspaces I can see I have 1 key assigned to my patrick workspace

Open the workspace

Click on limits

Here you can see the rate limits that you can tweak on this workspace but this is not the place to set the price limit.

I believe I can’t see a cost limit yet because I have not yet funded this account.

Setting up Billing

Click on Settings à Billing à Click on Buy Credits

Set the Amount I am going to go for $100 for now but you can start much lower.

Fill out your payment info and click Buy!

Done, I am just going to close this.

If I go to Settings à Billing

I can see the credits and the default setting is auto reload is disabled.
Good! I want to play it very safe when running this for personal use.

Click on limits and scroll down.

Here you can see the organization is set to a monthly limit of $500
over all workspaces.

I am going to change that to $50 for now.
Click on Change limit.