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Claude Duet invited the US waitlist, with resets
On November 13, 2026, Anthropic invited every US Pro, Max, and Ultra subscriber already on the Claude Duet waitlist. Pro gets three limit resets.
What Anthropic said on November 13
On November 13, 2026 at 20:02 UTC, Karan Ahuja, who describes himself as co-creator and head of product for Claude Duet at Anthropic, posted ↗ that "every Pro, Max and Ultra subscriber in the US who was on the waitlist as of yesterday has now been invited." The research preview "comes with limit resets: 3 for Pro, 1 for Max and Ultra." He also wrote: "We’re aiming to open up to more countries outside the US very soon."
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That "yesterday" is November 12. People who join the waitlist after that cutoff are not in the sentence. The product page ↗ still calls Duet a research preview on a waitlist for Pro, Max, and Ultra in the US, and says Team and Enterprise are not included yet. The page says it is powered by Opus 5.5.
Who gets in, and who does not
The Help Center ↗, which showed "Updated yesterday" when we read it on November 14, is the access list:
| Requirement | What the Help Center says |
|---|---|
| Plan | Pro, Max, or Ultra |
| Country | A Claude account in the US |
| How you get in | An invitation from the waitlist, or from a Claude Duet user |
| Team and Enterprise | Not available yet. Anthropic says it plans to bring Duet to those plans later |
| Price during the preview | Included. No extra charge |
| Model picker | None. Duet runs on Claude Opus 5.5 and decides how much effort a job needs |
Joining the waitlist does not set a date. Invitations still go out in waves, and the preview is US-only. The email on the waitlist has to match the Claude account and the Apple or Google account on the phone. A mismatch is one of the reasons the Help Center lists for seeing no access.
Open the invitation on an iPhone or Android, then sign in. The product FAQ also says a computer can open Duet on the web at claude.ai. It keeps working in the cloud after you close the app, and it asks before it sends a message, pays, signs, or deletes.
Personal Finance is not in Duet. That bank beta is Claude Personal Finance. Duet does not make phone calls or send texts to other people. Claude Meetings is a separate Team and Enterprise beta on Google Meet.
What a limit reset refills
Duet spends the same plan limits as Claude chat, including a five-hour session limit where the plan has one, and the weekly limits. The morning brief and check-ins count too. The product page says background checks count, and that a large job such as a financial model or a deck takes more model turns.
The preview adds full limit resets on top of that. Each one refills both the five-hour session and the weekly limits, when you choose to use it under Settings > Usage on the web or in Claude Desktop.
| Plan | Resets in this preview | Unused resets expire |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | 3 | December 15, 2026 |
| Max | 1 | December 15, 2026 |
| Ultra | 1 | December 15, 2026 |
This is not the November 10 offer. That one full reset, for Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team, has to be used before December 10, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. PT. The rules are in Claude's free full usage reset. Spend the December 10 reset on its own clock. These Duet resets expire five days later, and Team does not get them because Team does not get Duet.
What people are saying
"ok claude duet is pretty token hungry wtf" — Jordan (@jordanazzow) ↗
"Claude Duet can now connect to both Claude Projects and local CC threads. Super powerful" — Dan McAteer (@daniel_mac8) ↗
"Claude Duet replies to my agents in bb 100’s of times a day. About 1/4 fail." — Deau (@tregoudeau) ↗
"Claude Duetなかなかよいのでdotsはさよなら" — Matsuda Takumi (@matsuda_tkm) ↗. Translation from Japanese: "Claude Duet is pretty good, so goodbye dots."
"Claude Duet voice mode calls typically end automatically after about 58 minutes. Is this a preset system feature?" — Yu (@fermat_yu) ↗
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Dan's line is his report. The Help Center we read still says Duet cannot see all of your projects or the files on your computer, and that it can read your work in Claude but cannot change it. Yu is asking whether the 58-minute cutoff is a preset. The Help Center does not list a voice-call length. Deau's one-in-four figure is his own count of replies to his agents, which he says fail when he has not given an explicit order for that reply. That matches the approval rule. It is not an Anthropic failure rate.
Our take
Open the invite if you are US Pro, Max, or Ultra and the email matches. Check the inbox for the address on the Claude account, then sign in with that same Apple or Google account on the phone. A Duet user can also send an invite. The waitlist ↗ is still the door for anyone who was not on it as of November 12.
Spend a reset on work you already meant to hand off. Duet runs on Opus 5.5, and the morning brief draws the same pool as chat. Three refills on Pro, and one on Max or Ultra, are the whole preview allotment, and leftovers die on December 15.
Leave it if you are on Team, Enterprise, or outside the US. The Help Center is explicit. Karan's line about other countries is an aim, not a date. Compare the assistant itself in ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini.
Dots are the other always-on agent, and they are not this product. A dot's reach across computers is in ChatGPT dots on several computers. A US Pro dot that pays by card is ChatGPT Wallet. Duet's preview payments are Link and Shop Pay, with a one-time card, and it asks before each purchase. Matsuda is picking Duet over dots for himself. That is a preference, not a feature checklist.