Anthropic extends 40% GSA discount to states
Anthropic has widened its GSA agreement so a 40% discount on Claude covers every product surface and now reaches state, local, tribal and territorial governments, an estimated $1 billion in savings.
Anthropic announced a new agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA) that gives government buyers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. The company says this is the first time the discount covers every product surface. It applies to direct purchases now and, in the coming months, to purchases through cloud providers. State, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments are now eligible too.
The deal has no minimum spend commitment, and agencies pay for the usage they consume. Anthropic estimates the discounts will save the government about $1 billion. Agencies can buy at the OneGov rate through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule. Anthropic also plans to launch a dedicated program in the coming weeks to help agencies put Claude to work.
The company says about 500 US federal, state and local government organizations use Claude. It reports that weekly active users of Claude for Government are up about eightfold since February, and that usage across federal civilian agencies has grown about 20-fold in a year. The announcement includes several anecdotal case studies. In one, Utah gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 state agencies, and 71% reported saving more than 20 hours over a four-week pilot.
On compliance, Claude for Government has been generally available since September 30 at FedRAMP High. Claude is authorized at FedRAMP High on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud's Vertex AI, and select models on Bedrock are authorized for DoD IL4 and IL5 workloads in AWS GovCloud. Claude Enterprise is going through FedRAMP Moderate authorization under the FedRAMP 20x program.
Anthropic did not say how it calculated the $1 billion figure.