Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s

AI analysis lab Anthropic’s AI fashions are actually the best choice for enterprises, surpassing OpenAI.

Anthropic now holds 32% of the enterprise massive language mannequin market share by utilization, in accordance with a report from Menlo Ventures launched on Thursday. OpenAI holds the second-largest market share by utilization amongst enterprises, with 25%.

The determine marks a powerful reversal from even simply a few years in the past. Since 2023, OpenAI has seen its market share amongst enterprises decline sharply, in accordance with the report, as Anthropic’s has steadily risen over the identical timeframe. OpenAI held 50% of the enterprise market share by utilization simply two years in the past whereas Anthropic had 12%.

Google has seen enterprise utilization for its fashions improve over the previous few years as effectively.

Anthropic has a fair bigger market share on the subject of coding, with 42% of the enterprise market share, the biggest market share by a large margin. Enterprise utilization of Anthropic’s AI fashions are greater than double OpenAI’s, on the subject of coding, which garnered 21% of total market share.

Anthropic’s launch of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet mannequin in June 2024 is what laid the muse for the corporate’s surge in utilization, in accordance with the report. The discharge of Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 solely accelerated that momentum.

The findings from Menlo Ventures align with anecdotal chatter within the trade, which recommended that enterprise and startup builders most well-liked Claude over OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In the meantime, OpenAI has a powerful foothold on the patron aspect of the home. The corporate reported final week that its customers ship greater than 2.5 billion prompts to ChatGPT a day.

The Menlo Ventures report discovered enterprises favor closed fashions, which Anthropic and OpenAI use. Greater than half of enterprises replied that they don’t use open supply fashions in any respect. Solely 13% of enterprise day by day workloads use open supply fashions as of mid-year 2025, down from 19% originally of the yr. Meta nonetheless maintains dominance within the open supply market.