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Anthropic
Up 1.5 since 23 Sep, rising over 30 days (Direction ▲ 3.4). Latest driver: Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock and AWS.
Leads onCapability1stEcosystem1stTrust, safety and privacy2ndUsage and adoption2nd
Lags onValue12thReliability12th
Score76.6▲ 1.5 since 23 Sep
Strength76.0Eight pillars
Direction▲ 3.4Last 30 days
Confidence
Score over time
ScoreStrength
32 daily closes, the earlier ones reconstructed. Download CSV
Reconstructed Rebuilt with the live code from evidence dated on or before 24 September 2026. How
The eight pillars
Each pillar 0 to 100 on fixed goalposts, with its rank among the 13 ranked labs. The tick marks the median lab; points are what the pillar adds to Strength.
Why Anthropic is #2
Most of its Strength comes from Capability and Usage and adoption. Points are contributions to the Score.
- Behind OpenAI by 1.3 points. Biggest differences: Ecosystem +3.6, Value −2.3, Reliability −1.8; Direction −0.1.
- Ahead of Google DeepMind by 3.2 points. Biggest differences: Ecosystem +4.7, Usage and adoption +3.3, Value −2.5; Direction −0.3.
With every pillar weight moved up to 50% either way, it ranks 1 to 3 in 90% of recalculations; with equal weights, #2.
Since 23 Sep
Score up 1.5 (75.1 to 76.6). Reliability +1.1, Usage and adoption +0.4.
What was measuredAll 25 readings behind this close, with source, date and goalposts
Filled: no fresh reading, so the ranked labs' median was used. Carried: a source that keeps no history, read later.
| Indicator | Reading | Scaled | Goalposts | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena text rating Arena (arena.ai) text leaderboard: rating of the lab's best model with 1,000 votes or more | 1505.7 claude-fable-5-high | 85 | 1250 to 1550 rating | 24 Sep |
| Benchmarks Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub: the lab's best score on each of GPQA Diamond, FrontierMath tiers 1 to 3, SWE-bench Verified and OTIS Mock AIME, each placed between fixed goalposts, averaged; runs from the last 365 days, at least 3 of the 4 | 88.6 GPQA diamond 93.9% (Claude Opus 5 (max)); FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 90.2% (Claude Fable 5.1 (max)); SWE-Bench verified 83.5% (Claude Opus 4.7 (max)); OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100.0% (Claude Fable 5.1 (max)) | 89 | already 0 to 100 | 24 Sep |
| Paid adoption Published spend and paid-use evidence, latest edition of each: Ramp AI Index (share of US businesses paying the vendor, monthly), Menlo Ventures (enterprise API spend share), a16z CIO survey (share of LLM wallet), ICONIQ (share of AI builders using the provider), each placed on its own scale and averaged by weight; facts and sources at /data/adoption.json | 72.5 Ramp AI Index (2026-08): 43.78%; Menlo Ventures, State of Generative AI in the Enterprise (2025-12): 40%; a16z enterprise CIO survey (2026-01): 17%; ICONIQ, State of AI 2026: The Builder's Economy (2026-07): 81% | 73 | already 0 to 100 | 24 Sep |
| Assistant users Users of the lab's assistants (chat apps and coding agents) as the lab or its parent last disclosed them, or a panel measurement (QuestMobile) where a lab discloses none; weekly figures count as monthly (a lower bound); dated by disclosure, and only disclosures from the last 12 months count; not applicable to a lab with no figure; facts and sources at /data/assistants.json | No user count disclosed in the last 12 months | 1 million to 2 billion monthly users | ||
| Web traffic Cloudflare Radar: the lab's best rank among the top 20 generative-AI services by traffic, 21 minus the rank | 19 Claude / Anthropic #2 among generative-AI services | 95 | 0 to 20 rank points | 24 Sep |
| API spend share OpenRouter rankings: the lab's share of all dollars spent on OpenRouter in the last 30 days, across every model (not token volume, which cheap bulk models dominate) | 27.8317 27.8% of $95.1M spent on OpenRouter in 30 days (30 models) | 89 | 0% to 35% of spend | 24 Sep |
| App charts App Store top free charts in 7 countries | 68.7 US #13, GB #17, IN #28, BR #26, JP #36, DE #5 | 69 | 0 to 100 chart points | 24 Sep |
| Coding agent downloads npm and PyPI downloads of the lab's official coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Mistral Vibe), last 30 days; not applicable to a lab with none; standalone IDEs without public counts (such as Antigravity) are not seen | 53885600 npm:@anthropic-ai/claude-code 53885600 | 93 | 10 thousand to 100 million a month | 24 Sep |
| Coding extension installs VS Code Marketplace: installs of the lab's official coding extensions; not applicable to a lab with none | 26218553 Carried Carried back from 2026-09-24: anthropic.claude-code 26218553 | 90 | 100 thousand to 50 million installs | 24 Sep |
| SDK downloads PyPI and npm downloads of the official SDKs, last 30 days | 278860526 pypi:anthropic 137435830; npm:@anthropic-ai/sdk 141424696 | 86 | 100 thousand to 1 billion a month | 24 Sep |
| Open-model downloads Hugging Face downloads of the lab's models, last 30 days | Not applicable | 10 thousand to 1 billion a month | ||
| Shipping cadence Vikshy Wire: confirmed launches and updates of materiality 2 or more, last 90 days | 9 9 confirmed launches and updates in 90 days | 55 | 0 to 30 in 90 days | 24 Sep |
| Biggest launch Vikshy Wire: the biggest launch in the last 90 days, fading with age | 4.96 | 99 | materiality 0 to 5 | 24 Sep |
| Rating per dollar Arena rating of the lab's best-value model, less 30 points for each doubling of its blended list price (3 parts input to 1 part output), with prices below $0.30 per million counted as $0.30 | 1425 claude-sonnet-4-6: 1473 at $3.00/M blended | 44 | 1250 to 1650 points | 24 Sep |
| Cloud availability Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry: whether each offers the lab's current models as a managed, pay-per-use API (the flagship or the model one step behind it counts 1, an older generation only 0.5, open-weight side lines 0), dated by availability; facts and sources at /data/distribution.json | 3 Amazon Bedrock: Claude Opus 5.5, Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1; Google Cloud: Claude Opus 5.5; Microsoft Foundry: Claude Opus 5.5, Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 | 100 | 0 to 3 platforms | 24 Sep |
| Open-weight hosts OpenRouter: distinct providers serving the lab's open-weight models; not applicable to a lab that publishes none (a closed model's reach is its cloud availability) | No open-weight models on OpenRouter | 1 to 60 providers | ||
| Developer interest Hugging Face likes on the lab's models | Not applicable | 1 thousand to 316 thousand likes | ||
| Hacker News Hacker News points on stories about the lab, last 30 days | 17538 86 stories; top: Claude Opus 5.5 (1772) | 95 | 0 to 30,000 points | 24 Sep |
| Press and analysts Vikshy Wire: press and analyst pieces on the lab's developments, last 30 days | 35 | 76 | 0 to 60 pieces | 24 Sep |
| Official API uptime The lab's own status page: 30-day uptime of the components that make up its model API, counting major outages in full and partial outages at 30%, the pages' own formula (degraded performance is not counted); labs label outages differently, so a measured cross-check sits beside it | 99.7343 status.claude.com, Claude API (api.anthropic.com): 99.734% over 30 days (0.0 h major, 6.4 h partial outage) | 73 | 99% to 100% over 30 days | 24 Sep |
| Measured uptime OpenRouter: the median uptime of the lab's own API endpoints, an independent cross-check of the status page, the mean of daily readings over 30 days | 99.984 mean of 30 daily readings, 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-24 | 100 | 90% to 100% | 24 Sep |
| Independent assessments Independent assessments published by then, each put on 0 to 100: the Future of Life Institute AI Safety Index (40%), the Stanford Foundation Model Transparency Index (30%) and the SaferAI risk-management ratings (30%), averaged over those that cover the lab; a lab none covers is not independently assessed, and filled with the median like any gap | 49.1 3 of 3 assessments: FLI AI Safety Index (2026-07) 2.66; Foundation Model Transparency Index (2025-12) 46; SaferAI Risk Management Tracker (2026-07) 35 | 49 | 0 to 100 | 24 Sep |
| Customer data commitments From the lab's own documentation: API and business data not used for training by default; a zero-data-retention option; a choice of data region | 2 no training on API data by default, zero data retention available | 67 | 0 to 3 commitments | 24 Sep |
| Security certifications From the lab's trust center: SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management) covering its model API | 3 SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 | 100 | 0 to 3 certifications | 24 Sep |
| Security and privacy incidents Security breaches, data leaks and regulatory privacy actions (bans, fines, orders) affecting the lab's AI services or caused by its AI systems in the last 12 months, from reputable reporting and regulators, counted once per public disclosure, and half when the lab itself disclosed harm from its AI with no legal duty to; every fact, and what was not counted and why, is at /data/trust.json | 1 2026-07-30: Three evaluation runs in which Claude models compromised real organisations (credentials, a production database, a malicious PyPI package) (disclosed by the lab: counts half); 2026-09-09: A fourth evaluation incident of this kind disclosed (an early Opus 4.6, January 2026) (disclosed by | 67 | 0 to 3 in 12 months, fewer is better | 24 Sep |
What moved Direction
The developments that count most in the last 30 days. Direction ▲ 3.4.
- +3.9Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock and AWS22 Sep · New model generation from a lab
- −1.4Researchers use Claude to breach OpenAI employee account18 Sep · Security incident
- +0.5Claude discovers novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats23 Sep · Research release
- −0.4Anthropic swaps its 50% Claude Code limit boost for a permanent 25%29 Aug · Usage limits cut
- +0.3Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 with higher Claude Code session limits22 Sep · Usage limits raised
- +0.2Anthropic resets Claude Code weekly limits for Max users4 Sep · Usage limits raised
All 30 developments, line by line
Points for materiality, times recency, times diminishing returns (or the setback cap).
| Development | Materiality | Points | Recency | Diminish or cap | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI agents controlling machines 28 Aug · New product or feature | 2 | 0.75 | 0.55 | 0.22 | +0.09 |
| Anthropic swaps its 50% Claude Code limit boost for a permanent 25% 29 Aug · Usage limits cut | 2 | 0.75 | 0.57 | 1 | -0.43 |
| Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 1 Sep · New flagship model | 2 | 0.75 | 0.62 | 0.25 | +0.12 |
| Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 and resets Claude Code usage limits 1 Sep · Usage limits raised | 2 | 0.75 | 0.63 | 0.29 | +0.14 |
| Anthropic resets Claude Code weekly limits for Max users 4 Sep · Usage limits raised | 2 | 0.75 | 0.68 | 0.36 | +0.18 |
| Researchers use Claude to breach OpenAI employee account 18 Sep · Security incident | 3 | 1.5 | 0.91 | 1 | -1.36 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock and AWS 22 Sep · New model generation from a lab | 5 | 4 | 0.97 | 1 | +3.88 |
| Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 with higher Claude Code session limits 22 Sep · Usage limits raised | 2 | 0.75 | 0.97 | 0.45 | +0.33 |
| Claude discovers novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 23 Sep · Research release | 2 | 0.75 | 0.98 | 0.63 | +0.46 |
| Anthropic adds shared memory across Claude chat and Cowork 25 Aug · Product update · minor: counts zero | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale 26 Aug · Round of $1B+ or valuation of $20B+ · counts zero (kind or rule) | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves elevated errors on Claude Code and Claude Cowork 28 Aug · Major outage of an hour or more · incident without an independent report: counts zero | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Sony Music and Warner sue Anthropic over copyright claims 29 Aug · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule) | 2 | 0.75 | 0 | ||
| Claude.ai performance degraded for 29 minutes 31 Aug · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Claude.ai and Claude Code see degraded performance 31 Aug · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Claude for Microsoft Office 365 had degraded performance 1 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Claude platform and Office 365 add-in had degraded performance 1 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves delays in Claude credit purchases 2 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Claude Sonnet 5 errors resolved after 26 minutes 2 Sep · Major outage · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 2 | 0.75 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5 3 Sep · Major outage · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 2 | 0.75 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves elevated errors affecting multiple Claude models 3 Sep · Major outage of an hour or more · incident without an independent report: counts zero | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Authors dispute publisher claims in Anthropic settlement 6 Sep · Round of $1B+ or valuation of $20B+ · counts zero (kind or rule) | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic researcher resigns over self-improving AI concerns 9 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Elevated latency on Claude API resolved after 101 minutes 10 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Claude services hit by elevated errors, now resolved 11 Sep · Major outage · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here | 2 | 0.75 | 0 | ||
| Nvidia in talks to invest up to $10B in Anthropic IPO 12 Sep · Round of $1B+ or valuation of $20B+ · counts zero (kind or rule) | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Claude Cowork on Windows degraded, issue resolved 14 Sep · Major outage of an hour or more · incident without an independent report: counts zero | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves error spikes affecting Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1 15 Sep · Major outage of an hour or more · incident without an independent report: counts zero | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic merges Claude Cowork and chat into one Claude 16 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthropic resolves elevated errors affecting multiple Claude models 22 Sep · Major outage of an hour or more · incident without an independent report: counts zero | 3 | 1.5 | 0 |
Latest from Anthropic
What Anthropic shipped, broke and changed lately. The full Anthropic timeline, with every model it has released.
- 23 SepAnthropic launches Claude Marketplace for partner plugins and agentsFeatures · New product or feature
- 18 AugAnthropic extends higher Claude Code weekly limits through August 31Limits and pricing · Usage limits raised
- 17 AugAnthropic annualized revenue reaches $65BMoney and policy · Round of $1B+ or valuation of $20B+
- 16 AugClaude services disruption resolved after 36 minutesOutages and incidents · Major outage of an hour or more
- 15 AugClaude Fable 5 errors resolved after outageOutages and incidents · Major outage
- 14 AugAnthropic details unreleased Model 2 in AI risk reportResearch · Research release
