Claude Code Statistics 2026: Numbers and Facts

I’ve spent more than 800 hours working with Claude Code.

I started in mid-2025. What I can’t tell you from my own experience is how many other people use it. And Anthropic isn’t saying.

A useful clue comes from JetBrains’ 2026 survey. In it, 39% of more than 15,000 professional developers said they use Claude Code at work.

And Claude Code has only existed since February 24, 2025, when it launched as a research preview.

In this article, I’ll show you the key Claude Code statistics on usage, revenue, pricing, and benchmarks. Here’s the short version:

1. What Is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent. It can read a project, edit files, run commands, and manage changes with Git. According to the official documentation, Anthropic offers it in the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app, and a browser.

The main public milestones show the difference between product preview and general availability:

Feb 24, 2025

Research preview

Anthropic first introduced Claude Code as a limited preview.

May 2025

Generally available

Anthropic made Claude Code generally available in May.

Oct 30, 2026

Version 2.1.316

Public GitHub release dated October 30, 2026.

According to Anthropic’s February 24, 2025 announcement, the preview launched alongside Claude 3.7 Sonnet. General availability followed with the May 22, 2025 Claude 4 announcement.

2. GitHub Stars and npm Downloads

The GitHub repository had 154,017 stars according to its repository page on October 31, 2026.

• 154,017 GitHub stars on October 31, 2026
• 562,748,153 npm downloads from February 24, 2025, to October 6, 2026
• 52,946,380 npm downloads in the 30-day period from September 7 to October 6, 2026
• Version 2.1.316, released October 30, 2026, according to the GitHub releases

The 30-day figure comes from the npm download API. According to npm, these are HTTP downloads of package archives, including build servers, mirrors, and bots.

Cumulative npm downloads (millions)

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3. User Numbers and Adoption

Anthropic has not published an absolute count of active Claude Code users. The 2026 Developer Ecosystem Survey from JetBrains offers a current comparison of reported use at work. Its tenth edition surveyed more than 15,000 professional developers worldwide. Across all AI coding agents, 90% of respondents reported using one at least weekly and 68% daily.

Source: JetBrains, two surveys

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In the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026, 31% called Claude Code their main AI coding tool in the summer wave. Reported use in the United States was 47%.

4. Usage and Popularity in Surveys

The Pragmatic Engineer survey ran from January 27 to February 17, 2026, among newsletter readers, with 906 respondents. A total of 507 of them, or 56%, regularly used AI agents.

4.1 Tools Used by Regular Agent Users

Among regular agent users, 71% named Claude Code, well ahead of GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

Claude Code

71%

GitHub Copilot

46%

Cursor

39%

Source: Pragmatic Engineer AI Tooling Survey 2026

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Respondents could name several tools, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

4.2 Most-Loved AI Tools

The same survey also asked which AI tools respondents love using most and why. Claude Code leads clearly here too.

Claude Code

46%

Cursor

19%

GitHub Copilot

9%

Source: Pragmatic Engineer AI Tooling Survey 2026

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4.3 Claude Code in the Popularity Index

Surveys are snapshots. The gradually.ai popularity index tracks demand month by month instead. It combines Google search volume, usage data such as downloads and installs, and news mentions into a score from 0 to 100.

Popularity index from 0 to 100, higher is more popular · As of November 7, 2026

Claude Code

91

Cursor

83

Google Antigravity

81

Zed

81

Codex CLI

81

GitHub Copilot

75

Devin

73

OpenCode

72

Codex app

72

Pi

69

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5. Revenue and Business Figures

Anthropic publishes some revenue figures as run rates. The chart shows the Claude Code values. August and February are lower bounds (“more than”), and November is the announced $1 billion milestone. Bloomberg describes the metric as projecting a shorter period across a full year.

Claude Code run rate (US dollars)

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The figures for Anthropic overall are in a separate table. They do not cover Claude Code alone:

For Claude Code alone, the latest separately stated run rate I found in a public company source was more than $2.5 billion on February 12, 2026. In Anthropic’s February 12 announcement, the company said it had more than doubled since the start of the year. It also said weekly active Claude Code users had doubled since January 1.

The earlier milestones were announced with the $500 million milestone on September 2 and the $1 billion milestone in November, six months after general availability.

Anthropic gave the early-May figure of more than $47 billion in its May 28 announcement. Bloomberg reported the $65 billion on August 18, citing anonymous sources. The expected $100 billion comes from a New York Times report that Axios cited on September 18.

6. Coding Benchmarks

Anthropic publishes Terminal-Bench 4.0 results for its coding models.

Provider results. The effort settings are not identical, so these figures are not a direct ranking.

Claude Opus 5.5

Benchmark

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Anthropic result

66.4%

Condition

Xhigh effort, reported as Anthropic's highest score

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Benchmark

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Anthropic result

70.6%

Condition

Claude Code --bare, maximum effort

Provider results. The effort settings are not identical, so these figures are not a direct ranking.

Model	Benchmark	Anthropic result	Condition
Claude Opus 5.5	Terminal-Bench 4.0	66.4%	Xhigh effort, reported as Anthropic's highest score
Claude Sonnet 5.5	Terminal-Bench 4.0	70.6%	Claude Code --bare, maximum effort

Opus 5.5 was released on September 22, 2026, and Sonnet 5.5 on September 28. For Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s Opus release report specifies Xhigh effort and a 2.6 percentage point standard error.

According to the Sonnet system card, the Sonnet test used Claude Code in “--bare” mode at maximum effort, across 66 tasks and five trials per task, without internet access. The standard error is 2.5 percentage points.

7. What We Know About Successful Work and Productivity

An Anthropic study published June 16, 2026 analyzed about 400,000 interactive sessions from approximately 235,000 people between October 2025 and April 2026. It covered Claude Code in the terminal, Claude.ai, and the desktop app. The table shows shares of sessions with code changes.

Computer and mathematical occupations

Verified success

34%

At least partial success

89%

Other occupations

Verified success

29%

At least partial success

88%

Occupation group	Verified success	At least partial success
Computer and mathematical occupations	34%	89%
Other occupations	29%	88%

Source: Anthropic, Claude Code in practice

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A session counted as a verified success only if a classifier judged its goal to have been met and there was a verifiable signal such as a commit or passing tests. Sessions without a clear goal (about 7.7%) were excluded.

The same study assigns every session to one of nine work modes. A little over half involve writing, fixing, and testing code. Another 17% concern operating software, and a bit more than a quarter planning, understanding, analysis, and documents.

100%Share of sessions

Writing new code25%

Fixing bugs26%

Testing and orchestrating agents5%

Operating software (deployment, configuration, monitoring)17%

Planning and understanding systems14%

Analyzing data and writing documents13%

Source: Anthropic, Claude Code in practice

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Anthropic’s Claude Code Analytics API gives organizations daily metrics, including accepted or rejected proposals for file-editing tools, sessions, lines changed, commits, and pull requests.

8. Pricing and Costs

Claude Code is not included in Claude’s free plan. Individual access starts with Pro. Max offers higher usage limits.

8.1 Monthly Plan Prices

The chart shows US list prices per month with monthly billing, before taxes. Team prices are per seat.

Pro

$20/month

Max 5x

$100/month

Max 20x

$200/month

Team Standard

$25/seat/month

Team Premium

$125/seat/month

Source: Anthropic pricing page+ 1 more

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8.2 Plan Usage Limits and Annual Prices

Anthropic states plan usage only relative to Pro. Max 5x offers five times and Max 20x twenty times the Pro usage per 5-hour session. Anthropic does not publish absolute message or hour counts. All paid plans also have a weekly limit.

Pro

1x (baseline)

Max 5x

5x

Max 20x

20x

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According to Anthropic’s pricing page, Pro costs $200 up front with annual billing, which works out to about $17 per month. Team and Enterprise also include Claude Code.

Team requires at least two seats. With annual billing, a Standard seat costs $20 and a Premium seat $100 per month. Premium seats offer five times the usage of Standard seats. Enterprise costs $20 per seat per month, billed annually with a minimum of 20 seats. Usage is billed on top at API rates.

8.3 API Prices per Million Tokens

API pricing depends on the model and number of input and output tokens. Anthropic lists these standard rates per million tokens for its generally available Claude models.

Input

Output

USD per 1M tokens

Claude Fable 5.1

Input: $10

Output: $50

Claude Opus 5.5

Input: $4

Output: $20

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Input: $2

Output: $10

Claude Haiku 5.5 (two price tiers, bar shows the first)

Input: $0.1 / $0.5

Output: $0.5 / $2.5

Claude Fable 5

Input: $10

Output: $50

Claude Opus 5

Input: $5

Output: $25

Claude Sonnet 5

Input: $2

Output: $10

Claude Opus 4.7

Input: $5

Output: $25

Claude Opus 4.6

Input: $5

Output: $25

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Input: $3

Output: $15

Claude Haiku 4.5

Input: $1

Output: $5

Source: Anthropic API pricing documentation

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According to Anthropic’s API pricing documentation, prompt caching and Opus Fast mode have separate prices.

9. Technical Specifications

Anthropic lists the context windows in its model overviews for Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5. Supported surfaces and operating systems are described in the Claude Code documentation and the plan overview. The GitHub repository’s license file refers to Anthropic’s commercial terms.

If you want to try Claude Code, our Claude Code guide has a place to start, and Claude Code vs. OpenAI Codex compares it with its main rival. For general figures about Claude and Anthropic, see Claude Statistics 2026.

10. How popular is Claude Code?

In the gradually.ai popularity index, Claude Code scores 91 out of 100. That is rank 1 of the 31 AI harnesses we track. The index combines search demand, GitHub and package data and mentions in tech media.

In the EU, Claude Code is at rank 1 of 31 (94 points), in Germany at rank 1 of 31 (94 points). Use the switch above the chart to change between world, EU and Germany.

The most popular AI harnesses

Popularity index from 0 to 100, higher is more popular.

WorldEUGermany

20 of 31 models

Top 20AllChoose models

Claude Code91

Cursor83

Google Antigravity81

Zed81

Codex CLI81

GitHub Copilot75

Devin73

OpenCode72

Codex app72

Pi69

Gemini CLI68

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)65

Kilo Code65

Cline64

Qwen Code62

Muse Code59

Amp58

Aider58

Continue54

Grok Build52

020406080100

Claude Code, Anthropic: 9191

Cursor, Anysphere: 8383

Google Antigravity, Google: 8181

Zed, Zed Industries: 8181

Codex CLI, OpenAI: 8181

GitHub Copilot, GitHub: 7575

Devin, Cognition: 7373

OpenCode, Anomaly: 7272

Codex app, OpenAI: 7272

Pi, Earendil Inc.: 6969

Gemini CLI, Google: 6868

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf), Cognition: 6565

Kilo Code, Kilo Code: 6565

Cline, Cline Bot Inc.: 6464

Qwen Code, Alibaba: 6262

Muse Code, Meta: 5959

Amp, Amp: 5858

Aider, Aider-AI: 5858

Continue, Continue Dev, Inc.: 5454

Grok Build, xAI: 5252

Claude Code

Cursor

Google Antigravity

Zed

Codex CLI

GitHub Copilot

Devin

OpenCode

Codex app

Pi

Gemini CLI

Devin Desktop (formerly W…

Kilo Code

Cline

Qwen Code

Muse Code

Amp

Aider

Continue

Grok Build

As of November 7, 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

11. How popular are Anthropic's models?

Anthropic's most popular model is Claude Haiku 5.5 with 77 out of 100 (rank 3 of 631 AI models with a popularity score). In total, 16 Anthropic models have a score; the chart highlights them.

In the EU, Claude Opus 5.5 is at rank 10 of 613 (72 points), in Germany, Claude Opus 5.5 is at rank 8 of 692 (69 points). Use the switch above the chart to change between world, EU and Germany.

Popularity of Anthropic models

Popularity index from 0 to 100, higher is more popular.

WorldEUGermany

28 of 109 models

Top 20AllChoose models

Llama-3.2-1B79

GPT-6 Astra78

Claude Haiku 5.577

Qwen3.5 4B76

Llama-3.2-3B75

GPT-573

pyannote Community-173

GPT-6 Sol72

Stable Diffusion XL 1.072

Qwen3.5 0.8B72

Qwen3.5 2B71

Qwen 3.8 27B70

AutoTrust JEV-27B-VL70

LTX-2.570

Claude Opus 5.570

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 101769

Anima Base v1.068

SAM 368

Qwen 3.8 Max 090268

Kimi K368

Claude Sonnet 563

Claude Opus 562

Claude Sonnet 5.561

Claude Fable 5.156

Claude Sonnet 4.654

Claude Sonnet 4.550

Claude Fable 545

Claude Opus 4.837

020406080100

Llama-3.2-1B, Meta: 7979

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI: 7878

Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic: 7777

Qwen3.5 4B, Alibaba: 7676

Llama-3.2-3B, Meta: 7575

GPT-5, OpenAI: 7373

pyannote Community-1, pyannote: 7373

GPT-6 Sol, OpenAI: 7272

Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, Stability AI: 7272

Qwen3.5 0.8B, Alibaba: 7272

Qwen3.5 2B, Alibaba: 7171

Qwen 3.8 27B, Alibaba: 7070

AutoTrust JEV-27B-VL, AutoTrust AI: 7070

LTX-2.5, Lightricks: 7070

Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic: 7070

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, DeepSeek: 6969

Anima Base v1.0, CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org: 6868

SAM 3, Meta: 6868

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902, Alibaba: 6868

Kimi K3, Moonshot AI: 6868

Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic: 6363

Claude Opus 5, Anthropic: 6262

Claude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic: 6161

Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic: 5656

Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic: 5454

Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic: 5050

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic: 4545

Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic: 3737

Llama-3.2-1B

GPT-6 Astra

Claude Haiku 5.5

Qwen3.5 4B

Llama-3.2-3B

GPT-5

pyannote Community-1

GPT-6 Sol

Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

Qwen3.5 0.8B

Qwen3.5 2B

Qwen 3.8 27B

AutoTrust JEV-27B-VL

LTX-2.5

Claude Opus 5.5

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Anima Base v1.0

SAM 3

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902

Kimi K3

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Opus 5

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.8

Source: gradually.ai popularity index

12. How good are Anthropic's models?

In the gradually.ai overall index, which combines independent benchmarks into one value, Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's strongest model: rank 1 of 92 with 126.1 points. 14 Anthropic models are ranked in the index. 100 points is the average of a fixed reference group; 15 points more means a model wins about three of four benchmark comparisons.

13. How often do Anthropic's models hallucinate?

Artificial Analysis uses AA-Omniscience to measure how often a model gives a wrong answer to a knowledge question instead of admitting it does not know. Anthropic's best result comes from Claude Haiku 4.5: 23% of its answers that are not correct are wrong guesses (rank 11 of 62, rank 1 hallucinates least). The median of all measured models is 39%.

6 Anthropic models have a measurement. Each model counts with its best measured setting. The rate describes reliability, not safety in the sense of jailbreaks or harmful content.

14. How fast are Anthropic's models?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest with 236 output tokens per second. The median of all measured models is 87 tokens per second. Artificial Analysis has measured 14 Anthropic models.

15. How expensive are Anthropic's models?

Via the API, Anthropic's cheapest model, Claude Haiku 5.5, costs $0.20 per 1M tokens. The most expensive is Claude Fable 5 at $20.00. Both are blended prices of three parts input to one part output, as in the LLM price index.