India now accounts for 5.8% of global Claude usage — the service's second-biggest market after the US — and Anthropic is meeting that with local rate cards instead of dollar-converted defaults. It's the familiar move for a US AI company chasing scale in a price-sensitive, high-population market: match local buying power or hand the ground to cheaper regional rivals. If you build on Claude from the region, watch for the actual numbers when they publish; localized pricing usually lands well below the straight currency conversion.