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Morning Brief · October 28th 2026

Anthropic cuts Claude prices 40% for every level of US government

Anthropic expanded its General Services Administration agreement on Tuesday to a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the , with no minimum spend. For the first time it extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments, and it will cover purchases through cloud providers in the coming months.

Anthropic estimates the savings at $1 billion and says about 500 US government organizations use Claude, with weekly Claude for Government users up roughly eightfold since February. Its examples include a Utah pilot in which 71% of 34 state developers reported saving more than 20 hours in four weeks. Those are Anthropic's own figures from its own customers. SourcesA

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This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.