Anthropic has released Claude Managed Agents, a tool designed to help businesses build and deploy Artificial Intelligence agents with less engineering effort. The product provides out-of-the-box infrastructure for developers and, according to Anthropic, will enable enterprises to launch agents 10 times faster than before. The company says it takes over the complex pre-production work that normally delays production deployment, allowing customers to focus on defining an agent’s tasks, tools and guardrails while running the system on Anthropic’s infrastructure.
Anthropic said that pre-production work can include sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing. With Managed Agents, the platform automatically spins up a container for each agent, which can decide when to call tools, manage context and recover from errors. Anthropic also said the offering supports long-running sessions that can run for hours, while agent coordination for parallel work is available in research preview. Another research preview feature allows Claude to continually refine and self-evaluate response quality until it meets the user’s success criteria.
Managed Agents is currently available in public beta on the Claude platform. Anthropic identified users including Notion, Rakuten, Asana and others. Rakuten is using agents across its product, sales, marketing, finance and HR teams, with each deployed within a week. The company said removing the need to develop infrastructure has allowed it to focus more directly on democratizing innovation across the business.
Pricing for the new tool is based on consumption, with users paying for the models’ token use under Anthropic’s standard API costs, plus an extra $0.08 per session-hour for active runtime. The launch comes during a broader burst of releases from Anthropic as it competes closely with OpenAI in generative Artificial Intelligence. Earlier this week, Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao revealed that the company’s run-rate revenue had now surpassed $30 billion — more than tripling from $9 billion at the end of 2025 — and the debut of Managed Agents appears positioned to help Anthropic capture more demand from the evolving enterprise market.
