payments

Anthropic has begun displaying rupee-denominated pricing for Claude subscriptions in India, its second-largest market after the US with 5.8% of global usage. Claude Pro is priced at ₹2,000 ($21) monthly when billed annually, compared to $17 in the US, with Indian prices including local taxes.

AWS announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments (preview), enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other agents. Built with Coinbase and Stripe, the service supports micropayments through the x402 protocol with per-session spending limits and full transaction observability.