Anthropic Adds Spend and Usage Reports to Claude Enterprise
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Anthropic has made three management tools generally available to Claude Enterprise customers: smart reports, in-app surveys and pooled group budgets. The company announced them on Wednesday.
The aim is to show companies what their token spending buys. Managers pick a team, a date range and the products to include. Claude then analyzes a sample of that team's transcripts and sorts the work into workstreams. For each one, the report shows the spend, the deliverables and the most common points of friction, such as a missing connector or a failed tool call.
Recommendations and limits
Each report ends with a single list of recommendations. It points to recurring workflows that could become skills and to rules that could be added to a code repository. Admins can save their own questions and custom insights as templates. If a spend limit is holding someone back, an admin with billing permission can raise it from the report. Owners can also let team leads who are not admins run reports for their own groups.
Anthropic says smart reports are meant to help admins understand adoption and plan investment. They are not for judging individual performance or making employment decisions. By default, the company says, it will not use the data for model training.
Surveys and shared budgets
The in-app surveys add the team's own view. Default questions ask about the most valuable thing someone has done with Claude recently, how Claude changed the time that work took, and which use a teammate should copy. Another asks what would break or slow down first if the team lost access tomorrow. Admins can change or remove questions and choose who gets a survey and when. Members see a short card after a reply. Responses can be exported to a spreadsheet.
Pooled group budgets give a group one shared monthly budget. This means that a heavy user is less likely to run into a personal cap early in the month while colleagues leave their share unused. Individual limits stay in place as a guardrail against unusually high use, and a person stops at whichever limit runs out first. Someone who hits a limit can request more from inside Claude. Admins with billing permissions get email alerts at 50%, 75%, 95% and 100% of a budget.
Availability varies by configuration, including for organizations with a HIPAA setup or customer-managed encryption keys.
The launch comes as businesses look for proof of return on AI spending. Jellyfish, which makes tools for software developers, reported this week that spending on agentic coding tools has grown tenfold since the start of the year. Those tools now cost about 2% of total engineering cost. "Even if you're saying 2% is still small, that 10x growth is growth that most CFOs didn't plan for," said Nicholas Arcolano, Jellyfish's chief scientist.
Anthropic's financials shared with investors this week show an operating profit in the second quarter and 900% net revenue retention, meaning customers' spending in the third quarter of 2026 was nine times what it was a year earlier.
Source: Anthropic