The Cost Calculus: How Anthropic's Pricing Update Changes Where Your Claude Assistant Should Live

Anthropic's June 15 pricing update clarifies the fundamental economic choice between Managed Agents (metered, pay-per-work) and local Claude Code instances (fixed infrastructure costs). This reframes the hosting decision from habit to deliberate economics, making Managed Agents the clear winner for spiky, scheduled, or parallel workloads that would otherwise waste resources on continuous availability.