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Claude's $1-per-user federal price ends October 31. The new GSA OneGov terms give federal, state, local and tribal buyers 40% off metered tokens through January 2029, so agencies need a spend cap and a cost-per-task comparison against OpenAI's 50% offer.
October 28, 2026 · 10 min read
Claude for Government went GA on September 30 with no seat fees and a hard not-to-exceed spending cap. But conversation history lives only on agency devices, so capturing records, answering FOIA requests and honoring legal holds is the agency's job.
October 1, 2026 · 11 min read
OpenAI's $1 government pilot ends September 30. Its successor is a $0 licence and 50% off metered tokens, which agencies must fund against a ceiling on a stopgap budget while the Claude and Gemini deals expire the same day.
September 12, 2026 · 11 min read
Salesforce cleared the Pentagon's IL5 bar on August 5 by attesting that Anthropic's models were disabled, and Slack was left out at IL4. In an accredited environment the authorization boundary, not your evaluation, decides which models and features you actually run.
August 6, 2026 · 12 min read