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

Anthropic’s Economic Index offers a look at how organisations and individuals are actually using large language models. The report contains the company’s analysis of a million consumer interactions on Claude.ai, plus a million enterprise API calls, all dated from November 2025. The report notes that its figures are based on observations, rather than, for example, a sample of business decision-makers or generic survey.

Limited use cases dominate

Use of Anthropic’s AI tends to cluster around a relatively small number of tasks, with the ten most frequently-performed tasks accounting for almost a quarter of consumer interactions, and nearly a third of enterprise API traffic. There’s a focus on the use of Claude for code creation and modification, as readers might expect.

This concentration of use of AI as a software development tool has remained fairly constant over time, suggesting that the model’s value is largely based around these types of tasks, with no emerging use of Claude for other purposes of any empirical significance. This suggests that broad, general rollouts of AI are less likely to be successful than those focused on ...