Routines vs Managed Agents: where recurring Claude work should live

Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines in April and Managed Agents scheduled deployments in June 2026. Same question — “run this on a cron” — but different billing (subscription vs $0.08/session-hour + tokens), identity (you vs service account), and schedule granularity.

I wrote a side-by-side for solo devs choosing between personal Routines and platform cron, plus when you still need external orchestration for multi-step workflows with human gates.

Full comparison table and decision matrix on the canonical post.

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