> At the beginning of 2025, less than two years after launch, Anthropic’s run-rate revenue had grown to approximately $1 billion. By August 2025, just eight months later, our run-rate revenue reached over $5 billion.
Claude Code launched in February 2025. Anthropic's annual run-rate revenue grew from $1bn to $5bn by August.
They haven't published a breakdown of this but I suspect a significant portion of that revenue growth came from their $200/month plan.
It would help explain why seemingly every other LLM company has pivoted to focus on "LLMs for code".
My company is paying for Claude Max for me and a dozen other developers. The others are using the API. If their API usage cost hits a level where it's cheaper to move them to Max, they're moved to Max.
There's no hard mandate to use Claude Code, but the value for us is clear to exec management and they are willing to foot the bill.
There's no way "many developers" are paying $2,400 annually for the benefit of their employers.
There's no way companies are paying when they won't even fork out $700 a year for IntelliJ instead pushing us all onto VSCode.