I work for a company that pays by API.
But I wonder whether the cost shown to us is what the company actually pays? Pretty sure finance would have written a discount which is not shown to employees to keep us in check.
My hearts says that's what going on but ... does someone know?
I looked into this the other day - it's hard to get concrete numbers but rumors online lead me to believe that negotiated discounts tend to only be in the 10-15% range and you need to commit to six figure of spending to get them.
I've seen the bill at our company (few hundred users, few thousand total employees); we're paying the full API rate.
In my experience Anthropic won't give you much of a discount, if any, unless you have a multi-million dollar a year contract.
The actual cost your company pays is likely _higher_ than what Claude Code shows in /cost, not lower. Also, very few organizations are getting any discount on API rates. Maybe the US military.