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Anthropic
Claude Code
Terminal-first coding agent for repository editing, shell commands, code review, and long-running implementation workflows.
CLIIDEDesktopWebCloudMobileActiveProprietaryBYOKMCP Yes
Recent product updates
Reviewed
Selected releases and additions, with links to the original announcements.
Attributed output
GitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09
12.5MAttributed outputGitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09Commits and PRs on public GitHub provably produced by this agent. Exact if it is visible through its own bot or workflow, an estimate if measured through attribution it declares (these can swing 30 to 40 percent between measurement runs at multi-million scale), and a floor either way.Index rank · all agents
#1 of 40 CLI agents
#1Index rank · all agents#1 of 40 CLI agentsRanked by agent-opened PRs in the trailing 4 complete weeks, matching the index. Agents without a tracked PR series follow, ordered by total attributed output. Other filters or sorts change the list position.Business signal
Claude Code run-rate revenue · Feb 2026
$2.5B+Business signalClaude Code run-rate revenue · Feb 2026$20/mo Pro
Entry price
Shared usage limits
$20/mo ProEntry priceShared usage limitsNot published
GitHub stars
No public repo
Not publishedGitHub starsNo public repo11,739,789
npm demand/wk
Adjusted from raw npm channel
11,739,789npm demand/wkAdjusted from raw npm channelWeekly package downloads as an install-demand floor; adjusted when the vendor's main install channel is no longer npm.573,916,723
npm installs to date
Since 2025-02-24
573,916,723npm installs to dateSince 2025-02-24Total npm downloads of this agent's package(s) summed across every tracked week since it was first published. A floor, like the weekly figure. Where a one-week automated/CI burst inflated the total, the baseline-only figure is shown too.From the public record
What the public PRs reveal
50 PRs · 50 repositories
Search window: – · captured Oct 14, 2026 (UTC)
Claude-attributed work gets CodeRabbit follow-ups
Separate study: CodeRabbit follow-ups, May 25–October 11, 2026
In CodeRabbit’s May 25–October 11 audit, we found 51 original PRs crediting Claude, followed by 53 CodeRabbit auto-fix PRs; 39 follow-ups were merged. This cohort was selected through CodeRabbit, so it cannot tell us what fraction of this agent’s overall work receives follow-up fixes. Credits can name a model without identifying its client.
Specific work you can inspect
elizaOS/eliza: “fix(plugins): remove settings that no code reads” (merged). storytold/gridcraft: “io: remove the .sctmp temporary file when a save fails” (merged).
This is a sample of publicly attributed work, not total usage or a market-share estimate. Repositories are not customers. Attribution is declared in metadata, not independently verified tool execution; it does not prove exclusive authorship or autonomy. PR status is recorded at capture; merged does not establish correctness.
Method and audit data
Up to 50 most recently created public PR search results within the audit window; post-filtered for body attribution or Codex branch. A recent convenience sample, not a random or exhaustive sample.
Returned records dated Oct 11, 2026–Oct 11, 2026.
Download the dated audit evidence (JSON)Activity Over Time
Weekly attributed output on public GitHub. Output visible through the agent's own bot or workflow is exact; output measured through declared attribution is an estimate. Window: 2025-02-03 to 2026-10-12.
Model mixtrailing 8 weeks, 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-18
Which Claude model its users actually run, from visible public attribution metadata on Claude-marked commits.
Opus 76.1%Sonnet 23.3%Haiku 0.6%
npm Installs Over Time
Weekly npm downloads since 2025-02-24, the install-demand trajectory.
Market
Developer output
Public GitHub commits attributed to Claude
Claude Code declares attribution on the work it produces, so coverage is strong. The headline is a point-in-time estimate that moves between measurements and a floor: squash-merges, private repositories, and a separate review integration sit outside it.
Last full week (ending 2026-10-18): 10.6M signed commits (+4.4% week over week), search estimate.
Distinct users: 8,849 humans opened the 12,399 most recently sampled PRs, about 1.4 PRs per person.
Merge rate: 91.6% of its pull requests get merged (6,335,925 of 6,916,377 over 8 settled weeks, 2026-08-10 to 2026-10-04). The window ends about ten days back so recently-opened PRs have had time to merge.
GitHub review activity: 3.5% of its merged PRs had at least one GitHub review record before merging; the other 96.5% had none. This is a broad weekly signal and can include bot reviews; the human-review read below comes from the enriched PR sample.
In significant repos (company-owned or 10+ stars), 30.5% of its merged PRs got a human review. Across all sampled repos, the rate is 20%. Human review means a non-author, non-bot GitHub reviewer in the PR-lifecycle sample. 1 sampled PRs had more than 100 review records, so those reviewer lists are marked truncated.
Median time to merge: 38 min. The unreviewed median is 0.36h. The human-reviewed median is 32.58h. From a 120-PR sample merged 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-28.
Test-inclusion: 47.5% of its sampled merged PRs touch a test file. This is a rough read on production readiness. 4 large PRs hit GitHub's 100-file path read cap, so treat this as a floor.
Flow share: 29.8% of the 1999 most recent public PRs sampled (595 PRs, 2 windows, last 2026-09-27).
Task lens: 4.2M agent-opened PRs. The declared mark can be removed by the team, so treat this as approximate.
Snapshot 2026-06-09, confidence Medium, tracked since 2026-06-09. Read the methodology.
- Index rank · all agents
- #1 of 47 · #1 among CLI agents
- Demand share
- 27.5% of tracked npm demand floor
- Business signal
- $2.5B+ Claude Code run-rate revenue · Feb 2026
- GitHub share
- No public repo
- npm channel
- 6.4M raw downloads/week (Native preferred)
Best fit
Terminal-first engineeringLarge refactorsClaude-native teamsAgentic code review
Direct competitors
- Enterprise use represents over half of Claude Code revenue, according to Anthropic.
- Anthropic says Claude Code weekly active users doubled after January 1, 2026, but it does not publish the absolute WAU count.
- Claude Code docs now recommend native install and package-manager routes, so npm downloads are treated as one visible install channel rather than total usage.
- Anthropic says business subscriptions to Claude Code quadrupled since the start of 2026.
- Anthropic cites SemiAnalysis estimating Claude Code authors 4% of all public GitHub commits, double the prior month.
- Anthropic's May 2026 Series H valued the parent company at $965B and said company run-rate revenue crossed $47B earlier that month.
- By February 2026 Claude Code's run-rate had reached about $2.5B, roughly half a billion above Cursor's at the time, and developers reported switching from Cursor to Claude Code (Bloomberg, via Business Insider).
- Anthropic was, at one point, heavily dependent on Cursor: a Cursor employee estimated it was 40-50% of Anthropic's revenue before Claude Code launched (Business Insider).
npm channel caveat: Native preferredExpandHide
Claude Code's npm downloads halved in late April 2026 — a distribution change, not a usage decline.
In late April 2026 Anthropic moved the recommended install to native installers (Homebrew, WinGet, apt, dnf, apk). The npm package still works and installs the same binary, so the drop from ~13M to ~8M weekly is installs shifting off npm, not fewer users. npm now counts only one channel and understates total adoption.
- Demand floor
- 11.7M / wk
- Latest npm week
- 6.4M
- Peak npm week
- 22.6M
- 4-week average
- 11.7M
Trailing 4-week npm average. Native installs are unobserved, so this remains a floor.
Complete Mon-Sun week when cron-backed
Observed public npm range
As of 2026-10-18
All sourced signals (7)ExpandHide
| Signal | Value | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm downloads (2026-09-18 to 2026-09-24) | 11,936,572 | Public metric | High |
| Recommended install path | Native installer; npm remains supported | Official | High |
| Claude Code run-rate revenue | $2.5B+ and more than doubled since Jan. 1, 2026 | Official | High |
| Claude Code business subscriptions | Quadrupled since Jan. 1, 2026 | Official | High |
| Claude Code enterprise mix | Enterprise use is over half of Claude Code revenue | Official | High |
| Public GitHub commit share | SemiAnalysis estimated 4% of public GitHub commits were authored by Claude Code | Reported | Medium |
| Anthropic valuation | $965B post-money in May 2026 Series H | Official | High |
Where Claude Code Works
Languages
TypeScript36%
Python21%
JavaScript10%
HTML7%
Rust6%
Go5%
Frameworks
React21%
Next.js18%
Flutter9%
Astro6%
Electron6%
SwiftUI5%
Industries
AI/ML35%
Devtools14%
Gaming9%
Finance6%
Media6%
Security3%
Countries
Germany11%
United States of America10%
United Kingdom8%
France7%
Brazil4%
India4%
Share of Claude Code's own classified sampled work by segment; countries reflect where its PR authors are based. Full breakdowns: Languages, Frameworks, Industries, Map.
Pricing And Economics
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Pricing snapshot: 2026-09-25. Check the vendor for current terms.
Claude Code is included with eligible Claude subscriptions. Pro and Max share usage limits with Claude; API usage is billed separately.
- Entry price
- $20/mo Pro
- Top self-serve price
- n/a
- Pricing unit
- Shared usage limits
- Token transparency
- Task quota
- Included usage
- Limits depend on the model, context, and task. Prompt counts are not fixed entitlements.
- Overage path
- Additional usage credits can extend usage. Fable access and billing depend on the plan and provider.
Retail Token Equivalent
Allowance is not a fixed token entitlement. Consult the linked vendor pricing and your account’s usage limits.
| Plan | Price | Allowance | Unit | Token / Overage Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $20/mo | Shared Claude and Claude Code allowance. | Shared usage limits | |
| Max | $100/mo | Starts at $100/month; 5x and 20x usage options. | Shared usage limits |
Unit Economics (Measured)
Mean API-retail cost per completed task on the Artificial Analysis coding agent index (358 tasks across 3 suites, pass@1 over 3 runs, snapshot 2026-06-09). These are pay-per-token API costs, not subscription effective costs.
| Harness | AA index | Cost / task | Tokens / task | Time / task |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code, Opus 4.8 (max) | 77.2 | $4.62 | 4.8M | 18m |
| Claude Code, Opus 4.8 (medium) | 67.2 | $1.60 | 1.7M | 9m |
| Claude Code, Opus 4.7 (max) | 66.6 | $4.14 | 5.7M | 14m |
| Claude Code, Opus 4.7 (medium) | 59.9 | $1.24 | 1.7M | 6m |
| Claude Code, Qwen3.7 Plus (thinking) | 53.1 | $4.98 | 3.3M | 11m |
| Claude Code, GLM-5.1 | 52.7 | $2.26 | 4.8M | 22m |
| Claude Code, Opus 4.6 (medium) | 51.3 | $1.27 | 2.2M | 7m |
| Claude Code, Kimi K2.6 | 50.5 | $0.76 | 3.7M | 42m |
| Claude Code, DeepSeek V4 Pro (high) | 50.1 | $0.35 | 3.5M | 18m |
| Claude Code, Sonnet 4.6 (medium) | 49.4 | $1.02 | 2.2M | 9m |
Break-even vs API retail on the top harness (Claude Code, Opus 4.8 (max), $4.62/task): Pro at $20/mo covers about 4 tasks; Max at $100/mo covers about 22 tasks. Assumes the Artificial Analysis task mix.
Summary checked 2026-09-25.
Claude Code is included with eligible Claude subscriptions. Pro and Max share usage limits with Claude; API usage is billed separately.
- Limits depend on the model, context, and task. Prompt counts are not fixed entitlements.
- Additional usage credits can extend usage. Fable access and billing depend on the plan and provider.
- Sonnet 5.5 requires Claude Code 2.1.284 or later. Model aliases resolve differently across providers; check the model configuration docs.
Company And Funding
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- Ownership
- Private
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Employees
- ~5,200
- Total raised
- ~$132B
- Most recent round
- Series H, $65B (Apr 2026)
- Round leads
- Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, GIC
Parent-company total. Claude Code is one of several Anthropic products, not a separately financed entity.
Notable investors
GoogleAmazonSequoia CapitalLightspeedSalesforce VenturesMenlo Ventures
Enterprise And Security
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- SSO / SCIM
- Yes
- Deployment
- VPC / dedicated
- Trains on your code
- Not trained on your code
- Zero data retention
- Enterprise tier
Compliance
SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001HIPAA (BAA available)GDPR
Admin controls
SAML SSO / SCIMAudit logsRole-based access
Anthropic does not train models on code sent under commercial terms. Enterprise customers can add a zero-data-retention addendum, and Claude Code can route through Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex in a customer cloud account.
Product
Providers
Anthropic
Model families
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Fable 5.1Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5Claude Haiku
Capabilities
Repo editingTerminal commandsPlanningSubagentsMCPCode reviewWeb searchPluginsClaude Mods
Tradeoffs
- Claude-only by default
- Plan limits are usage-based estimates rather than fixed message counts