OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers

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OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers, according to The Decoder. OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

Anthropic's growth has slowed, but OpenAI is trading its own margins for market share. Chinese rivals like Deepseek are piling on more price pressure.

Short News Copy the url to clipboard Share this article Go to comment section OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 25, 2026 OpenAI is reportedly pulling major customers away from Anthropic with aggressive discounts, and the strategy is working. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp are shifting more of their AI spending to OpenAI, The Information reports .

Rippling CEO Parker Conrad said his company boosted OpenAI's share of its coding workload from 16 to 52 percent, while Anthropic's share fell from 57 to 18 percent. Replit switched after OpenAI offered more than 30 percent off a contract worth over $100 million a year. DataCamp CEO Jonathan Cornelissen said OpenAI's pricing cut his costs by 80 to 90 percent.