| Product | Claude API (refusal billing) |
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| Category | pricing |
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| Announced / detected | 2026-09-24 |
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| Effective | not stated in source |
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| Before | Pre-output refusals in these categories not billed |
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| After | Billed at the rates of the model that ran it; other categories still not billed |
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| Official source | https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/api |
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| Source quote | We're resuming billing for refusals that arrive before any output |
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| Archive | No post-change Wayback capture found |
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| Snapshot hash | sha256:806d3e5703c55457d85dfabebb0ee883d6764df142af611ad9ebe66c5f9c5527 |
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| Status | verified |
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