Anthropic’s usage statistics paint a detailed picture of AI success

Anthropic’s Economic Index provides insight into how organizations and individuals actually use large language models. The report includes the company’s analysis of one million consumer interactions on Claude.ai and one million enterprise API calls, all dated November 2025. The report notes that its numbers are based on observations and not, for example, a sample of business decision makers or a general survey.

Limited use cases dominate

Anthropic’s use of AI tends to focus on a relatively small number of tasks, with the ten most frequently performed tasks accounting for nearly a quarter of consumer interactions and nearly a third of the company’s API traffic. As readers might expect, the focus is on using Claude for code creation and modification.

This concentration of use of AI as a software development tool has remained fairly consistent over time, suggesting that the model’s value is largely based on these types of tasks, with no emerging use of…