# Anthropic makes infrastructure the product — and puts a price on speed

- slug: anthropic-makes-infrastructure-the-product-and-puts-a-price-on-speed
- date: 2026-04-09
- category: Agentics

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents at $0.08 per session hour plus token rates. The real cost is vendor lock-in: exclusive to Anthropic infra, unavailable on AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex.

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