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Anthropic vs OpenAI pricing

What Anthropic and OpenAI each publish about pricing, every dated change on their own pages, and what government buyers paid. Side by side, each line with its source.

Anthropic

Anthropic publishes pricing at www.anthropic.com/pricing (as of PriceTape's capture on Nov 3, 2026).

Changes on their pages

observed between Oct 9, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026

Bundles $100-$500/mo API credits into Max, Team plans

packaging

observed Oct 9, 2026

Free Tier Gains Design/Slides/Docs; Pro Adds Dashboards Beta

packaging

observed Oct 8, 2026

Launches Haiku 5.5 with tiered $0.10-$0.50/MTok pricing

price

observed between Aug 12, 2025 and Oct 1, 2026

Publishes $20/Seat Enterprise Price With Self-Serve Signup

price from an archived copy

Government contracts

Smithsonian Institutionawarded Oct 9, 2026

114,000 USD

USASpending "Award Amount" for this award, as the source reports it

awardedseats not stated

Source: USAspendingCONT_AWD_33330227CF0010440_3300_-NONE-_-NONE-

Department of Stateawarded Feb 11, 2026

18,960 USD

USASpending "Award Amount" for this award, as the source reports it

awardedseats not stated

Source: USAspendingCONT_AWD_19PCRD26K4661_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-

OpenAI

OpenAI publishes pricing at openai.com/api/pricing (as of PriceTape's capture on Nov 3, 2026).

Changes on their pages

observed between Oct 28, 2025 and May 28, 2026

Swaps GPT-5 Lineup for Pricier GPT-5.5/5.4 Models

price from an archived copy

observed between Feb 1, 2025 and Oct 28, 2025

Swaps flagship pricing to GPT-5, adds AgentKit billing

price from an archived copy

observed between Jul 13, 2024 and Feb 1, 2025

Cuts GPT-4o price 50%, adds o1 and Realtime API pricing

price from an archived copy

observed between Feb 1, 2023 and Jul 13, 2024

Replaces Ada/Davinci pricing with GPT-4o; adds DALL·E 3, Assistants API fees

price from an archived copy

observed between Nov 20, 2021 and Feb 1, 2023

Cuts base GPT-3 prices up to 67%; adds DALL·E, fine-tuning pricing

price from an archived copy

Government contracts

U.S. federal executive-branch agencies (via GSA OneGov/Multiple Award Schedule)negotiated Aug 6, 2025

1 USD

None

negotiatedseats not stated

Source: government contracthttps://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-announces-new-partnership-with-openai-delivering-deep-discount-to-chatgpt-08062025