Anthropic now bills for refused Claude API requests, in three of five categories

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 27 Sept, 00:04 UTC

Anthropic has started billing Claude API requests that its safety classifiers refuse before Claude writes anything, in three of the five refusal categories. Anthropic's Claude API release notes, dated September 24, say it is "resuming billing for refusals that arrive before any output" when the…