Claude AI Statistics (2026): Usage, Pricing, Funding, and Model Performance

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Claude (built by Anthropic) has grown into a major enterprise and developer AI platform, with rapid expansion in traffic, revenue, and product breadth (Claude Code, desktop apps, and multi-cloud availability).

Claude AI statistics
Claude AI statistics

Below are the most cited, measurable Claude/Anthropic stats available as of early 2026.

Top Claude AI stats (quick list)

  • Estimated claude.ai traffic: 202.9M total visits in January 2026 (Similarweb estimate).
  • Anthropic run-rate revenue: US$14B (as stated by Anthropic in February 2026).
  • Latest valuation milestone: US$380B post-money after a US$30B Series G (Feb 2026).
  • Prior valuation milestone: US$183B post-money after a US$13B Series F (Sep 2025).
  • Earlier valuation milestone: US$61.5B post-money after a US$3.5B Series E (Mar 2025).
  • Business customers: 300,000+ business customers (Sep 2025).
  • High-spend customers: 500+ customers spending US$1M+ annually (run-rate basis, Feb 2026).
  • Claude Code run-rate revenue: US$2.5B+ (Feb 2026).
  • Claude Pro price: US$20/month billed monthly (or US$17/month equivalent with annual billing; US$200 billed up front).
  • API pricing (examples, prompts ≤200K tokens): Opus 4.6 US$5/MTok input & US$25/MTok output; Sonnet 4.5 US$3/MTok input & US$15/MTok output; Haiku 4.5 US$1/MTok input & US$5/MTok output.
  • Context window highlight: Claude Opus 4.6 advertises a 1M-token context window in beta (Feb 2026).

Claude.ai usage and audience (traffic indicators)

Web traffic is one of the clearest public signals of Claude’s consumer awareness. Similarweb’s January 2026 snapshot for claude.ai reports 202.9M visits, plus engagement metrics (bounce rate, pages/visit, and average visit duration) and country shares.

Top countries by claude.ai traffic share (January 2026)

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United States
31.52%
India
6.24%
United Kingdom
4.71%
France
3.73%
South Korea
3.29%

Max = 31.52%. Widths: United States 100.00%, India 19.80%, United Kingdom 14.94%, France 11.83%, South Korea 10.44%.

Anthropic funding and valuation (Claude’s primary backer)

While Claude is the product, most public “Claude stats” are reported at the Anthropic level (funding rounds, valuation, and revenue run-rate). Anthropic’s disclosed post-money valuations accelerated sharply from 2025 to 2026 across Series E, Series F, and Series G.

Anthropic post-money valuation by major funding rounds

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Series E (Mar 2025)
US$61.5B
Series F (Sep 2025)
US$183B
Series G (Feb 2026)
US$380B

Max = US$380B. Widths: Series E 16.18%, Series F 48.16%, Series G 100.00%.

Strategic investment (reported)

  • Amazon: Reuters reported Amazon invested another US$4B in Nov 2024 (doubling its investment to US$8B committed).
  • Google: Reuters reported Google agreed to invest up to US$2B (US$500M upfront + US$1.5B committed) in Oct 2023.

Revenue and enterprise adoption indicators

Anthropic’s own announcements contain unusually specific operating metrics that can be used as proxies for Claude’s enterprise footprint.

  • Run-rate revenue progression: ~US$1B at the beginning of 2025, over US$5B by August 2025, and US$14B by February 2026 (all as stated in Anthropic announcements).
  • Business penetration: 300,000+ business customers (Sep 2025).
  • Large customers: customers with >US$100K annual spend (run-rate basis) grew nearly 7× in the year leading to Sep 2025; customers spending US$1M+ annually exceeded 500 by Feb 2026.
  • Fortune adoption: Anthropic stated that 8 of the Fortune 10 were Claude customers (Feb 2026).
  • Claude Code economics: general availability in May 2025; US$2.5B+ run-rate revenue by Feb 2026 (Anthropic statement).

Claude pricing statistics (API + consumer plans)

Claude’s cost structure is easiest to compare using “per million token” API pricing. Below is a simple input-price comparison for several commonly referenced tiers (prompts ≤200K tokens where specified).

Claude API input price by model (US$ per 1M input tokens)

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Opus 4.6
$5.00
Sonnet 4.5
$3.00
Haiku 4.5
$1.00
Haiku 3
$0.25

Max = $5.00. Widths: Opus 4.6 100.00%, Sonnet 4.5 60.00%, Haiku 4.5 20.00%, Haiku 3 5.00%.

Consumer and team pricing (selected)

  • Pro: US$20/month billed monthly (or US$17/month with annual discount; US$200 billed up front).
  • Max: from US$100 per person billed monthly (tiered usage multipliers).
  • Team: Standard seat US$25/seat/month billed monthly (or US$20/seat/month billed annually); Premium seat US$125/seat/month billed monthly (or US$100/seat/month billed annually).

Claude model capability stats (publicly reported)

  • Claude Opus 4.6: announced a 1M-token context window (beta) and cited pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens (Feb 2026 announcement).
  • Long-context retrieval example (Anthropic-reported): On an 8-needle 1M variant of MRCR v2, Opus 4.6 scored 76% vs Sonnet 4.5 at 18.5% (Anthropic report).
  • Claude 3 family launch: debuted with a 200K context window and stated Claude API general availability in 159 countries (Mar 2024 announcement).
  • Claude 3 Opus recall (Anthropic-reported): “Needle in a haystack” recall accuracy above 99% (Mar 2024 announcement).
  • Claude 3 Haiku speed (Anthropic-reported): 21K tokens per second for prompts under 32K tokens (Mar 2024 Haiku announcement).
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet internal coding eval (Anthropic-reported): solved 64% of tasks vs 38% for Claude 3 Opus in an internal agentic coding evaluation (Jun 2024 announcement).

Mobile app adoption (early public snapshot)

Anthropic has been more transparent about enterprise metrics than consumer downloads. One early public data point: TechCrunch reported the Claude iOS app had 157,000 global downloads in its first week at launch (May 2024 timeframe).

Claude timeline (selected launches and milestones)

DateMilestoneStat/Detail
Mar 4, 2024Claude 3 family announced200K context; API GA in 159 countries
Jun 21, 2024Claude 3.5 Sonnet announced$3/$15 per MTok; 200K context
Feb 24, 2025Claude 3.7 Sonnet + Claude Code previewHybrid reasoning positioning
Mar 3, 2025Series E closed$3.5B raised; $61.5B post-money
Sep 2, 2025Series F closed$13B raised; $183B post-money
Feb 5, 2026Claude Opus 4.6 announced1M-token context window (beta)
Feb 12, 2026Series G closed$30B raised; $380B post-money; run-rate revenue $14B

Sources

  • Similarweb (claude.ai traffic snapshot, Jan 2026): https://www.similarweb.com/website/claude.ai/
  • Anthropic — Series G (Feb 12, 2026): https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
  • Anthropic — Series F (Sep 2, 2025): https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation
  • Anthropic — Series E (Mar 3, 2025): https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
  • Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.6 (Feb 5, 2026): https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
  • Anthropic — Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Jun 21, 2024): https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet
  • Anthropic — Claude 3 family (Mar 4, 2024): https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
  • Claude Plans & Pricing (consumer/team + API excerpts): https://claude.com/pricing
  • Claude API pricing details: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
  • Reuters — Google investment up to $2B (Oct 27, 2023): https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-agrees-invest-up-2-bln-openai-rival-anthropic-wsj-2023-10-27/
  • Reuters — Amazon adds another $4B (Nov 22, 2024): https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-receives-4-billion-investment-amazon-makes-aws-official-cloud-provider-2024-11-22/
  • TechCrunch — Android app + iOS early download figure (Jul 16, 2024): https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/16/anthropic-releases-claude-app-for-android/