Anthropic enterprise uptake
Close to a third of American businesses paid for Anthropic’s AI offerings last month, according to a market report. (pymnts.com) The piece frames this as part of a broader shift toward multi‑vendor AI adoption among firms rather than single‑supplier dominance. (pymnts.com)
Anthropic’s paid footprint in U.S. business jumped to 30.6% in March, putting it within 4.6 percentage points of OpenAI. (ramp.com) Ramp said overall business adoption of paid artificial intelligence tools crossed 50% for the first time in March, reaching 50.4% across its customer base. OpenAI still led at 35.2%, but Anthropic added 6.3 percentage points in a single month after gaining 4.9 points in February. (ramp.com) The data comes from Ramp’s card and invoice records, which the company says cover more than 50,000 businesses and about $100 billion in annual spend. PYMNTS reported the March jump on April 12, citing a Financial Times report published April 11. (ramp.com) (pymnts.com) This is not a consumer app ranking. Ramp measures which companies are actually paying for model access, chatbots, coding tools and related services, so the figures track procurement decisions rather than downloads or free use. (ramp.com) The same dataset shows companies are no longer standardizing on one supplier. Ramp said Google reached 4.7% of businesses in February, xAI was below 2%, and Anthropic won about 70% of first-time head-to-head purchases against OpenAI in that month. (ramp.com) That shift has been building for months. In March, Axios reported that Anthropic was capturing more than 73% of spending from companies buying artificial intelligence tools for the first time, also citing Ramp data. (axios.com) Ramp’s economist, Ara Kharazian, said Anthropic’s early base inside engineering teams helped it spread into broader business use. He pointed to Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding product, as one reason demand kept rising even with usage caps and higher prices. (ramp.com) OpenAI disputed parts of the Financial Times account. PYMNTS said OpenAI told the newspaper it did not recognize the cited data, and said Codex had 3 million weekly users in April, up from 2 million a month earlier, while its application programming interfaces processed more than 15 billion tokens per minute. (pymnts.com) Consumer momentum has also become less one-sided. PYMNTS, again citing Financial Times reporting from Sensor Tower and Apptopia, said ChatGPT downloads rose 5% in the month leading to March while Claude downloads tripled to 21 million, and ChatGPT’s U.S. weekly active users fell month to month in March for the first time in about two years. (pymnts.com) For now, OpenAI remains the most widely paid artificial intelligence vendor in Ramp’s data. But by April 11, Ramp was already projecting that Anthropic could pass it within two months if March’s pace holds. (ramp.com)
