Anthropic Offers Claude AI Across U.S. Government for $1, Matching OpenAI Move

Anthropic said on 12 Aug 2025 that it will make its Claude large-language-model service available to all three branches of the U.S. government for a token fee of $1 per agency for the next year. The Amazon-backed company said the offer covers both Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government, the latter cleared for use on sensitive but unclassified workloads. Claude for Government is certified at the FedRAMP High level, allowing agencies to run the model inside existing secure cloud or on-premise environments via partners such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Palantir. Anthropic will provide onboarding and technical support to help agencies integrate generative-AI tools into tasks ranging from document analysis to constituent services. The move intensifies a price battle for federal contracts that began last week when OpenAI extended ChatGPT Enterprise to executive-branch agencies for the same $1 charge. Google is in talks to supply its Gemini model on comparable terms, according to people familiar with the matter. All three vendors were recently added to the General Services Administration’s approved-supplier list, and each won a share of Department of Defense AI awards worth up to $200 million earlier this summer as the Trump administration encourages wider government adoption of artificial intelligence.