Anthropic said it is offering Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all branches of the US government for $1 per year in a move that matches OpenAI.
In a blog post, Anthropic said Claude's $1 for one year deal will be available through the General Services Administration. Anthropic said that it will also offer technical support for agencies adopting Claude for productivity and mission workflows.
OpenAI US government deal is also offered through the General Services Administration. That offer included OpenAI for Government for $1 per agency for the next year.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are betting that near freemium deals today will equate to profitable contracts with the US government in the future. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are already part of a Department of Defense contract that has a $200 million ceiling.
What remains to be seen is whether these discounts for the US government result in similar discounting for large enterprises that also have scale. Or whether the discounts lead to larger bundled deals across agencies.
The GSA has been busy squeezing technology vendors in 2025. In addition to the OpenAI and Anthropic deals it announced agreements with Amazon Web Services, DocuSign, Oracle, Elastic, Salesforce, Adobe, Google and Microsoft.
