What happened
Anthropic's Claude AI model secured significant enterprise business, with its coding tools driving substantial revenue. Claude Code achieved a $1 billion annualised run-rate by November 2025, six months post-general availability in May 2025, and now contributes 12% of Anthropic's total annual recurring revenue. By December 2025, Claude held 40% of the enterprise market share, exceeding OpenAI's 27%. This establishes Claude as a prominent contender in enterprise AI solutions.
Why it matters
Procurement and IT architecture teams now face increased due diligence requirements for evaluating new enterprise AI solutions, particularly for coding applications, given Claude's rapid market penetration and performance. This introduces a dependency tightening on emerging AI providers and potentially weakens control over existing AI vendor roadmaps and integration strategies, increasing exposure to rapid market shifts and the need for continuous re-evaluation of AI tooling.
