Developers shipping production agents on Claude can skip building hosting themselves, paying token rates plus $0.08 per session-hour.

Kenning's take

What it does

Claude Managed Agents is a set of composable APIs on the Claude Platform for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents. Later updates added memory, 'dreaming' that reviews past sessions to improve agents, outcomes that let Claude iterate towards a quality bar, and multi-agent orchestration. Usage costs standard token rates plus a runtime fee per session-hour.

• Hosted agent runtime and sandbox
• Memory across sessions
• Dreaming (research preview) to learn from past sessions
• Outcomes with success criteria
• Multi-agent orchestration and webhooks

Who it suits. Developers building production AI agents on Claude.

Key facts

Category

Developer tools

Part of

Claude

Made by

Anthropic

Based in

United States

Released

8 April 2026

How to get it

public beta on the Claude Platform (API); dreaming by request in research preview

Works on

API

In the UK

Yes

API price

model token rates plus $0.08 per session-hour of active runtime

FAQ

Facts from the maker's own pages and the sources listed. Checked 2026-10-11.