GSA Expands Anthropic OneGov Agreement with 40% Claude Discount

Anthropic and the U.S. General Services Administration announced an expanded OneGov agreement on October 27, 2026, giving government buyers a 40% consumption-based discount on Claude and extending eligibility beyond the federal government to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.

Agreement Terms and Eligibility

Under the agreement, government partners receive a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API, Anthropic said in its announcement. The company said the discount applies across every product surface for the first time, covering direct purchases and, in the coming months, purchases through cloud providers.

GSA described the pricing in its release as a 40% discount on token-based usage across all Claude models available to the government, including FedRAMP-authorized environments for sensitive unclassified work. The agreement sets no minimum orders, and agencies pay only for the usage they consume.

Eligibility covers federal buyers in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as well as state, local, and tribal governments, GSA said, with ordering available directly, through resellers, and on major cloud platforms. Anthropic’s announcement additionally names territorial governments and says agencies can buy at the OneGov discount through GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule.

GSA said the agreement reflects the federal government’s shift from evaluating advanced super intelligence capabilities to applying them in daily mission work, continuing OneGov’s move toward consumption-based pricing that scales with actual use. The agency said the OneGov strategy has generated more than $1.8 billion in savings for the federal government and taxpayers since its inception, including approximately $1.6 billion through its super intelligence agreements. Anthropic separately estimated that the discounts offered through the agreement will save the government $1 billion.

Anthropic-Reported Government Use

Anthropic reported that approximately 500 US federal, state, and local government organizations use Claude. Weekly Claude for Government active users are up about eightfold since February 2026, and usage across federal civilian agencies has grown about 20-fold in a year, the company said.

The company cited agency examples alongside the announcement. Utah gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 state agencies; Anthropic reported that 80% had a working environment within 30 minutes and that 71% reported saving 20 or more hours by the end of the four-week pilot. A US state chief information officer confirmed their team responded to a ransomware attack in eight minutes, against a usual timeline of two to three days, using Claude. A US federal security team used Claude Mythos to detect and patch, in about two days, a vulnerability that would have allowed the takeover of a critical production system; a human penetration test the month before had missed it.

Among the other examples Anthropic cited, a cybersecurity professional at a major agency found and patched bugs in critical financial systems, a state IT developer moved nearly 900 API methods to a new framework in two days on a project that had been scoped for a month, and a state IT director used Claude Code to document 12 legacy code repositories, mapping 467 database tables and flagging 27 risks. Anthropic also said more than half of US states, some of the largest localities, and some of the country’s largest critical infrastructure operators participated in its SLTT cyber defense program.

Security Authorizations

Anthropic said agencies can use Claude for their most sensitive unclassified work. Claude for Government, which delivers Claude’s coding and agentic capabilities with near-feature parity to commercial offerings at a FedRAMP High authorization level, became generally available on September 30, 2026. Agencies building their own tools can use Claude through Amazon Bedrock, where Claude is authorized for FedRAMP High with select models authorized for DoD IL4 and IL5 workloads in AWS GovCloud, or through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, where Claude is authorized for FedRAMP High. Claude Enterprise is in process for FedRAMP Moderate authorization through the FedRAMP 20x program.

The Offer It Succeeds

GSA announced the original OneGov agreement with Anthropic in an August 12, 2025 release, offering Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the federal government for a nominal fee of $1 per agency for up to a full year, with Anthropic providing technical implementation support and executive branch procurement running through GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule. GSA’s OneGov IT agreements page listed that offer at $1 per user for executive branch agencies and the judicial and legislative branches, open to federal agencies only, and marked it as expiring on October 31, 2026.

GSA said that as OneGov offers expire it will renew agreements where appropriate and work to ensure continued access to critical tools. Anthropic said it is also launching a dedicated program to help agencies implement and make the most of Claude, adding that such programs are commonly used by its private sector customers and will be extended to public sector partners in the coming weeks.