# Anthropic Was Losing $4,800 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. ---