Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government

Why it matters

Anthropic has broadened its agreement with the General Services Administration, extending a discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API to government partners across every purchasing surface, including direct sales and cloud providers. The discount also covers state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and agencies face no minimum spend commitment, paying only for what they consume. The company estimates the arrangement will save the government substantial sums. Roughly half a thousand federal, state, and local organizations already use Claude, with usage growing sharply over the past year. The article details practical deployments: Utah equipped developers across state agencies with Claude Code, a state CIO credited Claude with a rapid ransomware response, and a federal security team used Claude Mythos to find and patch a vulnerability a prior human penetration test had missed. Claude for Government reached general availability at FedRAMP High authorization, and agencies can also access Claude through Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. A new implementation program will bring private-sector best practices to public-sector customers.