Claude Is Eating the World

Anthropic’s annualized revenue rate nearing $45 billion, 5x from last year

May 9, 2026

Anthropic is on a tear with its ever popular Claude Code.

Annualized revenue rate is now nearing $45 billion, tripling every quarter.

Anthropic's growth rate is accelerating at $14 billion of scale.

The chart is on a log scale. A straight line on log means constant percentage growth. The curve above is bending up.

Dec 2022 to Jan 2025 was 10x per year, twice. Dec 2025 to May 2026 was 5x in five months. The… pic.twitter.com/h0pRtU7qbJ
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) May 9, 2026

The below chart is not entirely accurate but nonetheless funny:

Anthropic annualized revenue visualized

From 3B to 45B in <12 months pic.twitter.com/j5jhQyaKF0
— Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) May 8, 2026

Anthropic has blown by OpenAI, as the above and below charts indicate.

Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs.

Anthropic: ~$9M
OpenAI: ~$5.6M
Top public co. (Nvidia): ~$5.1M pic.twitter.com/iLxOVcsbVJ
— Epoch AI (@EpochAIResearch) May 8, 2026

Dario Amodei, CEO, described it as an 80x growth earlier this year if you annualized the rate of growth.

@cnbc
#Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said his company tried to plan for 10-fold growth. But revenue and usage increased 80-fold in the first quarter on an annualized basis, which he says explains why it’s been so hard to keep up with demand. Read more at the #linkinbio or the link on screen. #CNBC
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I asked AI Mode to explain the math behind 80x:

Anthropic’s annualized revenue rate nearing $45 billion, 5x from last year

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