Anthropic expanded its GSA partnership to offer a 40% discount on all Claude products. The discount now covers direct purchases and cloud providers in the coming months. It extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments. A dedicated program will help agencies implement Claude use. About 500 US government organizations already use Claude. Weekly active users for Claude for Government grew eightfold since February. Federal civilian agency usage rose twentyfold in a year. The discounts are estimated to save the government $1 billion. Agencies face no minimum spend commitment and pay only for usage. Utah gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 agencies. 80% had a working environment within 30 minutes. 71% reported saving over 20 hours by the end of a four-week pilot. A US state CIO cut ransomware response time from days to 8 minutes. A federal security team used Claude Mythos to detect and patch a critical vulnerability in two days. A cybersecurity professional patched bugs in critical financial systems.
What changed
Discounts were limited to specific purchase paths and did not cover all product surfaces or government levels.
What it unlocks
Government agencies can now access Claude at a 40% discount across all product surfaces and levels of government without minimum spend commitments.
- 40% discount on Claude products
- $1 billion estimated government savings
- 8x growth in weekly Claude for Government active users since February
- 20x usage growth across federal civilian agencies in a year
What you need to act on it
- government agency status
- purchase through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule or authorized cloud providers
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