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0 pointscube22221y ago0 comments

There was a recent article[0] trending on HN a about their revenue numbers, split by B2C vs B2B.

Based on it, it seems like Anthropic is 60% of OpenAI API-revenue wise, but just 4% B2C-revenue wise. Though I expect this is partly because the Claude web UI makes 3.5 available for free, and there's not that much reason to upgrade if you're not using it frequently.

[0]: https://www.tanayj.com/p/openai-and-anthropic-revenue-breakd...

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famouswaffles1y ago

3.5 is rate limited free, same as 4o (4o's limits are actually more generous). I think the real reason is much simpler - Claude/Anthropic has basically no awareness in the general public compared to Open AI.

The chatGPT site had over 3B visits last month (#11 in Worldwide Traffic). Gemini and Character AI get a few hundred million but Claude doesn't even register in comparison. [0]

Last they reported, OpenAI said they had 200M weekly active users.[1] Anthropic doesn't have anything approaching that.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-top...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

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pradn1y ago

I suppose business customers are savvy and will do enough research to find the best cost-performance LLM. Whereas consumers are more brand and habit oriented.

I do find myself running into Claude limits with moderate use. It's been so helpful, saving me hours of debugging some errors w/ OSS products. Totally worth $20/mo.

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