# Anthropic Was Losing $4,800 a Month on Each Power User. It Finally Stopped.

- slug: anthropic-was-losing-4800-a-month-on-each-power-user-it-finally-stopped
- date: 2026-04-18
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic cut off its heaviest AI users on April 4 rather than keep subsidizing them at $4,800 per user per month. Now the whole industry is reckoning with flat-rate pricing that never added up. OpenAI, Salesforce, and Ramp all show the same stress.

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