BREAKING
Amazon-Anthropic Shift to Per-Token
Compute Hours vs Tokens
Compute Hours
Current
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Bills hardware uptime
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Favors Amazon at high usage
Tokens
From 2027
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Bills input/output text
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Favors Anthropic at high usage
0
B
Anthropic to AWS over 10 yrs
0
GW
new compute capacity
0
B
possible Amazon investment
Amazon Disputes Cost-Increase Claims
0
standard context tokens
0
Sonnet preview tokens
0
$
one-day experiment cost
Reactions Divided Ahead of 2027
AI NEWS BLITZ
Amazon and Anthropic have renegotiated how Claude usage gets billed.