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Anthropic’s Terrifying Billing Glitch Charged A Software Developer $16.6 Million For Using Claude API, Despite The Dashboard Showing A $0.00 Amount

10 July 2026 at 21:42

Anthropic charged a software developer $16.6 million for using Claude API

AI chatbots are notorious for hallucinating, but what about the companies behind those Large Language Models like Anthropic? One Korean software developer could add to that, given he just faced a soul-crushing experience where he was billed a ludicrous $16.6 million for using its Claude API. The horrifying part about this ordeal was that it wasn’t a sophisticated phishing attempt or an elaborate scam; the source was a verified Anthropic billing domain. What’s even more perplexing is that the developer’s dashboard stated that there were zero incurred bills, and yet, the developer was charged a mammoth sum. The billing history […]

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