Anthropic offers US government 40% off Claude, saving an estimated $1 billion
Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government
Anthropic is expanding its GSA partnership with a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies. The deal, estimated to save the government $1 billion, has no minimum spend. About 500 government organizations now use Claude, with weekly active users up eightfold since February. A new program will help agencies implement Claude, and FedRAMP-authorized options are available.
A US state CIO confirmed their team was able to respond to a ransomware attack in 8 minutes vs. the usual 2-3 days thanks to Claude.
- InvisibleUp
Isn't Claude still considered a supply chain risk by the DoD? I guess that doesn't apply to non-military government agencies.
- happytoexplain
You'll have to start with changing the mission statement at the bottom of your page to remove the term "AI".
- chopete3
40% discount across the board is pretty steep and while doing the extra work of providing FedRAMP compliance.
Genuine public service.
10-15% discount was sufficient to get listed.
- nxobject
Huh – I always thought GSA was still full of Elon's minions.
- iAMkenough
The company that claims it "may never be profitable" just signed a deal to take even more of your tax dollars, is what I'm reading.
GSA should be working to host its own inference and models for federal agencies, not selling out to unprofitable private infrastructure.
Read their SEC filing, then decide if the "discount" is sustainable as a multi-agency dependency for decades to come. Or just blindly accept this as a positive and downvote away.