Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS
In a Better Offline exclusive, Ed Zitron reveals how much Anthropic spent on Amazon Web Services in 2024 and 2025, and how the costs of running their services are increasing linearly with their revenue, suggesting there may be no path to profitability for LLMs.
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I can exclusively reveal today how much Anthropic spent on AWS for the years 2024 and from the beginning of 2025 through the end of September 2025 and from what I can see their compute spend may vastly exceed what has previously been reported.
Furthermore, I can confirm that through the end of September 2025 Anthropic has spent around 100% of their revenue in 2025 on Amazon Web Services, spending $2.66 billion on compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue.
Go to the newsletter, I sourced the whole goddamn thing, and if I'm honest, this piece is the culmination of several months of articles about how Anthropic's business tactics have maybe turned the screws on their biggest customer.
I can exclusively reveal today, as well as many other numbers in the newsletter, that Cursor's Amazon Web Services bills doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025, and have stayed inflated since Anthropic increased the costs with the launch of Priority Service Tiers, an aggressive rent-seeking measure.
I need to be clear, I cannot 100% guarantee that's what did it.
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But it certainly bloody well seems that way.
It's my gut instinct, I'm not going to say it declaratively, but I'm going to show you why I believe this.
And I admit I struggled with how to turn this into an episode because the newsletter, which is on my free feed, is a series of numbers and analyses that if I just read them aloud would sound extremely dull and at times be quite hard to follow.
It's not something that naturally plays well for radio.
So instead of giving you the audible version, I'm going to give you the cliff notes and speak to a degree of vindication I feel on reading these costs.
So let's start with a number.
$1.225 billion.
That's how much Anthropic spent on Amazon web services in the third quarter of 2025.
They spent $829.7 million in Q2 2025 and $610 million in Q1 2025.
Oh, and one other number.
They spent $1.35 billion on AWS in 2024.
So yeah, just in another way, talking of their 2025 numbers, Anthropic's spend on AWS doubled over the course of three quarters.
Now, a little backstory about Anthropic that's necessary to understand this fully.
Anthropic was originally invested in by both Google and Amazon.
According to the New York Times, Google owns around 14% of the company, and analysts estimate Amazon owns somewhere between 15 and 18%, and both have, in not so many words, said that they're the main or primary compute partner for Anthropic.
It's unclear how much Anthropic spends on Google Cloud, but Semi-Analysis believes they're a big client, and that's about as much detail as I can get from anywhere anywhere I've really looked.
In any case, Anthropic is spending effectively every dollar they make on Amazon web services, and Amazon appears to be booking this as revenue, though I can't directly confirm that.
Though I do know these numbers are cash, they're after credits.
Though, in the recent months, Anthropic has lowered the amount of revenue they're spending on it to 86.2% in Q3 2025, which is an improvement from Q2 2025, where they spent 106% of their revenue and Q1, where they spent 175% of what they made on Amazon web services.
It's quite horrifying when you say it out loud.
Now if you're thinking that because these numbers are quite close that this might suggest that Anthropic's costs are improving, think again.
Anthropic's Amazon Web Services costs have a habit of massively spiking.
For example, their AWS bill leapt from $383.7 million in August 2025 to $518.9 million in September 2025.
That's $135 million goddamn dollars.
And my hunch is it's because they have have a massive problem where clawed code users are each costing them thousands of dollars despite only paying a hundred or two hundred dollars a month.
There's also the nasty matter of Google Cloud.
Anthropic's Amazon Web Services bill is $2.66 billion from January through the end of September, as I said.
And that is pretty close to $2.55 billion in revenue.
But if Anthropic's spend on Google Cloud was only 25% of what they spent on AWS, its compute costs would jump to $3.33 billion through the end of September, way more than it brings in.
If it's half of what they spent on Amazon web services, this becomes a $3.99 billion compute bill.
And if they spend the same amount, the bill becomes $5.3 billion.
And again, that's just through the end of September.
Another note, cursor spend on Amazon web services is comparatively small, but includes some spend on Anthropics models because Amazon is allowed to sell them.
And I believe that the reason that they do this, because they do directly pay Anthropic, like they actually send money directly to them, is because Amazon offers significant discounts in some cases for running models through their service.
I think it's their bedrock service.
And my source confirmed that this was the case, though I could not get granular data on what exactly cursors spend was on Amazon.
Like I can't say, oh, they use this model or that model.
Now cursor spends most of their compute money directly with Anthropic, as well as every other model developer whose models they use.
AWS is a small piece of the puzzle.
And while small, its spending data provides evidence of how much this shit actually costs, though I also concede that some of the money Cursor spends with AWS likely goes to the non-AI part of the business, like file hosting and other tech infrastructure.
Nevertheless, the timing of the massive jumps in Cursor's AWS bill from $6.2 million in May to $12.6 million in June directly correlate with the massive changes made to their product, increasing the costs on any users that wanted to use Cursor in the way they had in the past by making them face the actual costs of serving models on a per million token basis.
I've written about this a lot, by the way.
It's hard to describe in detail because it's going to take forever but around mid-June cursor had to change everything because mysteriously they had to stop spending so much money with their customers.
Their customers were burning a hole in their pocket and I think we can kind of see why.
Cursor's costs have also never come down, spiking to a high of $15.5 million in June, dropping to a still high $9.6 million in August, only to spike again to $12.9 million in September.
Though I cannot declaratively state that this is exactly what happened, Cursor's costs doubled immediately following the addition of Anthropic's service tiers in late May 2025, which require an upfront commitment of token spend and token throughput.
And when Cursor announced the launch of their $200 a month Ultra plan amidst massive product changes, they cited how it was, and I quote, made possible by multi-year partnerships from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and XAI, and that their support was instrumental in offering this volume of compute at a predictable price.
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really,
I'm being as fair as I can.
Another factor might be that the new Claude 4 models were significantly more expensive.
It's entirely possible that all of these things are true.
I just want to make sure I cover my bases because I do not know for sure.
But the timing, the timing, man.
And another thing.
You know what Anthropic also launched a week before Service Tears?
A competing product to Cursor called Claude Code.
One that they could run with as little restraint as they'd like to drain as many monthly customers away from Cursor, who is also their largest customer buying Anthropic models through their API.
Real fucking mystery, right?
If it quacks like a duck, wears a t-shirt that says duck, and Claude tells you, you're absolutely right, that's a duck.
When you upload a picture of it, it's probably a fucking duck, but I obviously can't say for sure.
I need to be explicit here with what happened though.
Anthropic supplied access to their models to a company, Cursor, and then released a product, Claude Code, that did exactly the same thing as that company, Cursor, turning it both into a customer and a competitor, in the process creating a massive conflict of interest.
As not only did Anthropic have an incentive for that customer or competitor to fail, though they also needed their compute revenue, which is kind of a bugger, Anthropic also had the means to make this failure happen in the most painful and expensive way possible by worsening the terms in which that competitor required the compute it needed to function.
Could be a coincidence, I guess.
And when I say compute, I mean tokens, just I'm reading a script, okay?
When are you gonna email?
Anyway, I'm not gonna turn this into a massive sprawling episode about this company.
I wanted to give you the raw information so you can go and read the detailed analysis I did.
It's free, by the way, don't worry.
But now I want to talk about how all this made me feel because that's what makes this show unique and I think is the appropriate way of coming at this.
I'm gonna be honest, I find what it looks like, and I'm hedging my bets again, Anthropic did to Cursor truly disgusting.
Cursor hit $500 million in annualized revenue in the same month that they then saw their costs double, dramatically reducing the value of their subscription product at the apex of their success.
Yes, Cursor is an unsustainable AI company, I know, and like all of these companies has no path to profitability.
Anthropic should have always charged sustainable rates, even if it meant that it wasn't possible to build a big company based on their models.
Sadly, we don't live in that universe.
And while you could make the case that startups like Uber didn't at first charge sustainable rates, I'd argue that the reason why its initial rates weren't successful was because of the steep upfront cost of customer acquisition, which is a problem that could be solved through the lifetime of the customer, and Uber had the means to gradually ratchet up the costs of rides or, more shittily, reduce the cut that they pay to drivers in a way that wouldn't be immediately painful.
Furthermore, Uber never had a fuel problem.
What Anthropic has is a fuel problem.
They have a compute problem for the amount that they're paying to run their goddamn services.
Cursor is also Anthropic's largest customer, and the timing of priority tiers to coincide with the moment when they were growing fastest is a suspicious and potentially disgraceful move.
While you could describe it as a necessary step in the direction of sustainability, that plausible excuse is undercut by the overall timing of the move.
One cannot ignore how close the launch of these tiers were to the launch of Anthropic's clawed code, a product that lacks Cursor's flashy front end, but performs similar functions, all subsidized by Anthropic's massive hoards of venture capital and its chummy relationships with hyperscalers like Amazon and Google.
The thing is, even with these moves, Anthropic still spent $1.04 on Amazon web services for every dollar they made through the end of September 2025, and that's for just 2025, by the way.
Their costs increased linearly with their revenue, and while they've improved when they spent a remarkable 227% of their revenue on AWS in January, they still spent 88.9% of it on AWS in September.
Now, if you're worried hearing how close these numbers before, like I said, means they're somehow approaching profitability, good lord no.
I'm repeating myself, I realize, but I really need you to come away with this reality in your brain.
These digital mr.
Beans very likely spend comparable sums on Google Cloud, and likely another billion or two on salaries, data, and I don't know, that $1.5 billion settlement with all the authors that they just agreed to.
This company absolutely fucking sucks.
I don't care if you like Claude Sonnet or Claude Opus.
I don't give a fuck.
Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet are not worth burning billions of dollars a year in cloud costs, fueling an environmentally destructive, plagiarism-charged pseudo-company that would roll over and die within months if it didn't constantly get fed billions of dollars a year.
What are you going to tell me?
They're going to turn this ship around?
They're going to make some sort of autonomous AI coder?
You know that's bullshit.
Every goddamn one of you boosters knows that total bullshit.
I'm sure Sonnet 4.5 is somewhat better than Sonnet 4, but what does that actually mean?
Anthropic raised $20 billion this year.
Do we give them more next year?
I've heard reports that they're actually targeting $20 billion in annualized revenue, so $1.67 billion a month in revenue by the end of next year.
It's an absolute fucking joke, but the only thing funnier than that joke is that it will likely cost them $25 billion to make that fictional money.
And where, pray tell, is that coming from?
And why?
Why?
What is so remarkable about this company that gives them a free pass to burn $2.66 billion in AWS in fucking nine months?
I'm not talking about your cynical, oh, Amazon is booking his revenue, crony capitalism's here, answer here.
I'm not, I'm not.
I'm talking about the scientific or technological reasoning for keeping Anthropic alive.
And yes, I feel exactly the same way about OpenAI.
What possible achievement does Anthropic have that warrants this needless, endless, sprawling financial destruction?
Why are we rewarding a company with bad business practices for making a product that loses more money, the more money it makes?
I'll even try and see this through the eyes of an AI booster.
Damn, all I'm seeing is blue and yellow.
Anyway, and even from here, the only only reason to keep Anthropic alive is because you see these companies as sports teams.
You see Dario Amade as the equivalent of Dan Campbell or Greg Popovich.
You root for them and their causes because you think that if they win, you as a fan will be rewarded.
You don't think too hard about what it is that Claude Sonnet or Claude Opus do, and you find enough ways that this is somewhat kind of useful to you.
And you use those reasons to justify the proliferation of a wasteful and destructive technology.
What exactly happens here?
Anthropic's AWS bills are not really going down.
They've normalized in an 88 to 95% range, and they're clearly going to stay there.
And if your argument is they'll go down, your argument is quite literally n-eh.
Go read semi-analysis for 17 hours and come up with some demented GPU-based argument about inference max scores.
Pretend like you give a shit.
Come up with a real argument against mine, because I am working harder at this than you are.
And if you believe otherwise, you should ask yourself why the guy who said Sam Altman's no IT loads refused cash dump in a premium newsletter got this scoop and you did not.
But that actually leads me to a key question: How long do we hand Anthropic and by extension OpenAI billions of dollars?
And for the first time in your goddamn life, it's time to ask: what if I'm right?
What if these companies are incapable of becoming profitable?
What if there really is no massive demand for generative AI?
Do you really think Anthropic will make $1.6 billion a month sometime in 2026?
Do you really think that?
And even for Amazon, it's kind of shitty.
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How impressed with these things are you?
Would you pay double, triple, quadruple?
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The literal only company to try advertising in large language models is an AI search engine company called Perplexity.
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The costs are increasing linearly with revenue and I fucking proved it.
I am open to any compelling arguments that can explain how this ever changes.
And my God, if you say tranium, I will absolutely lose my shit.
Chips aren't fixing this.
And by the way, if your answer is that Anthropic will make some sort of theoretical, ultra-powerful large language model or invent AGI, you are a goddamn mark.
You are being conned.
Look,
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There's no harm in being wrong.
I've been wrong tons of times in my life.
Being wrong and admitting you're wrong is an act of bravery.
Shit, I actually kind of get it.
This stuff feels, if you let it, like it's doing something for you, even though interacting with it is actually draining you, because you're constantly having to find ways to make it do what you want it to do, to the point that when it actually does something for the first time, it almost feels magical.
You feel very powerful, despite the fact that you have been put to work to make automation work.
That's not how automation is meant to work.
And sure, there are software engineers out there who have, like any good software engineer, found a way to take the useful parts of LLMs and use them to, to quote Carl Brown of the Internet of Bugs, make the easy things easier.
Then there are the ones that are spending more time than they would building software, prompting LLMs and rewriting claw.md files and thinking that because things sort of worked after they hit enter that they're privy to a great becoming.
And there are the victims, of course, of vibe coding startups, companies that sell the outright lie that somebody who cannot read or write software can write secure, effective, and functional software.
Look, I'm serious.
Join me.
If you're an AI booster, I don't care.
Everybody is welcome in reality.
I don't care who you are.
I don't care if I've called you a booster and given you a verbal swirly a hundred times.
Now is the time to accept that this software is too expensive, too destructive, and too wasteful to continue backing it.
I'm not even saying you have to say fuck AI or shun ChatGPT like you're an Amish teenager that looked at porno, but it's time to be loud and direct that these products are not worth the egregious and perpetual annihilation of billions of dollars every fucking year.
I don't even know if this means you have to stop using them.
I don't want you to, but I don't really like.
What are we going to do?
These things are not going to go away because you stopped using Claude.
They're going to go away because you stopped talking about them.
They're going to go away because they cost too much and their pay pigs stop paying them.
What I am advocating for is for everybody to openly discuss that the amount of money it costs to run these companies is at odds with what they have built, are building, and will build in the future.
Nothing they are building is moving towards super intelligence or AGI.
No combination of Amazon Tranium or Google TPUs is going to usher in the birth of the machine god.
The products they make are at best and in inconsistent moments kind of cool, but a hundred times more often mediocre, unreliable and outright ridiculous.
Even if you really get a lot out of these models, Do you think that these companies should be allowed to burn billions of dollars every year?
How much do you think they should be allowed to burn?
And how much is too much for you?
It's time to start having this conversation and having it publicly, especially as Clammy Sam Altman bloviates about building 250 gigawatts of data centers in seven goddamn years at the cost of one-third of America's entire fucking economic output in 2024.
Anyway, this has been a big day for me, so I'm going to leave it there.
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