Anthropic Revenue Surpasses OpenAI for First Time — $30B Run Rate, IPO as Early as October 2026
Eighteen months ago, Anthropic was the scrappy safety-focused challenger. Today, it’s the highest-revenue AI company in the world — and it’s eyeing a public market debut that could value it at $380 billion. The numbers are striking: Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate has crossed $30 billion, surpassing OpenAI’s $25 billion for the first time. The company’s enterprise customer base has more than doubled — over 1,000 businesses now spend at least $1 million per year on Anthropic’s APIs and services. And an IPO, once considered a distant hypothetical, is now being seriously evaluated for as early as October 2026. ...