🪤 Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool｢ But programmatic usage gets billed at costlier API rates. And if th...

🪤 Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool｢ But programmatic usage gets billed at costlier API rates. And if this credit is exhausted, spillover programmatic tokens get billed at (occasionally discounted) API rates through "extra usage," a separate token allotment that, if enabled, exists mainly as a way to avoid a sudden service cutoff and to set a limit on spending ｣https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/anthropic-tosses-agents-into-the-api-billing-pool/5240748#claude #ai #billing