Business/press release/2026-09-25

Anthropic to charge for Claude API requests blocked by safety filters

Anthropic has announced a new policy to charge users for Claude API requests that are blocked by its internal safety filters. This means that even if a prompt is refused due to safety safeguards, the user will still incur a cost for the processing. One report specifies that this billing applies to three out of five safety categories.

3 articles from 3 outlets covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a press release.

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3 outlets covered “Anthropic to charge for Claude API requests blocked by safety filters”. All of them report the following:

  • Anthropic will charge for Claude API requests
  • Charges apply to requests blocked by safety filters
  • This is a new billing policy

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