Anthropic Beats OpenAI in Revenue for First Time

Anthropic's sales topped those of OpenAI for the first time in the second quarter. Anthropic more than doubled its revenue over the same period and made a small operating profit. The company’s second quarter revenue reached $11.6 billion. The report attributed the second quarter results to OpenAI’s ChatGPT seeing a slowdown in growth, while Anthropic’s Claude Code coding tool saw continued success. OpenAI told investors that its growth rate has accelerated during the current quarter, following the launch of new AI models in July. Anthropic shared with would-be investors that its preliminary revenue figure for the second quarter was more than $11.5 billion and that it earned positive adjusted operating income. Anthropic’s second quarter revenue marked a greater than 14-fold increase compared to the $787 million it earned during the same quarter in 2025. Anthropic’s growth is happening as the company is competing with OpenAI for enterprise customers. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have filed confidential paperwork to go public, and Anthropic is expected to reach the market as soon as this fall.