Anthropic offers governments a 40% discount on Claude through an expanded GSA agreement

Anthropic expanded its partnership with the US General Services Administration (GSA) with an agreement that gives government customers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. Anthropic says it is the first time the discount covers every product surface: it applies to direct purchases now and to purchases through cloud providers in the coming months. It also extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Agencies have no minimum spend commitment and pay for what they use. Anthropic estimates the discounts will save the government $1 billion, and says agencies can buy at the OneGov discount through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule today.

Anthropic also says it will launch a program to help agencies implement Claude in the coming weeks. It reports about 500 US federal, state and local government organizations using Claude, and says Claude for Government, which has FedRAMP High authorization, became generally available on September 30. Claude Enterprise is in process for FedRAMP Moderate authorization through the FedRAMP 20x program. The usage figures and customer examples in the post are Anthropic's own account.