Claude AI Stats Feb 2026 – Market Shares, Total Users, and More.

Built by Anthropic, Claude is dubbed a “next-generation AI assistant” that can help you with a host of tasks.

It might not claim the headlines – often taking a back seat behind ChatGPT, Gemini and even Grok – but it certainly has a dedicated userbase that sings the platform’s praises.

Of all the AI systems and assistants out there, Claude is one of the mainstream options you likely know the least about.

How does it stack up against others in terms of monthly active users and market share? Find out as we go through all of the key Claude usage stats for 2026.

Claude Usage Stats 2026 – The Highlights

• The Claude Website Sees 176.12 Million Visitors Each Month
• The Claude App Registers 7.38 Million Monthly Active Users
• The Claude App’s MAU Grew By 10.27% In December 2025
• 52% of Claude Tasks Were Augmentation
• Claude Completes College-Level Tasks 12x Faster Than Humans

How Many People Use Claude In 2026?

Like all AI platforms, obtaining concrete user statistics is difficult because Anthropic does not publish them.

Undaunted, we’ve scoured the web and found an updated post from Backlinko reporting that Claude has 18.9 million monthly active users worldwide.

Monthly active users (MAU) means people are actively visiting the Claude website or app and using the services regularly.

Notably, AICPB publishes monthly active user counts for all AI applications; its list shows that 7.38 millionusers visit the Claude app.

From that, you can determine that the remaining 11 million plous monthly active users come from the website alone.

Speaking of which, AICPB also ranks all AI websites across the world, giving a true insight into how many visitors they see each month.

The most recent statistics are correct as of December 2025, showing that 176.12 million users visited Claude that month.

Where does that rank amongst other AI platforms? We handpicked some of the more well-known AI systems to give you a comparison:

AI Platform	Number of Monthly Visitors	Global Ranking
ChatGPT	5.7 billion	1st
Gemini	1.79 billion	2nd
DeepSeek	451.10 million	4th
Grok	281.94 million	7th
Perplexity	187.30 million	11th
Claude	176.12 million	12th
Copilot	99.46 million	20th

So, on the one hand it’s still way below the titans of ChatGPT and Gemini – and quite far behind Grok. On the other, it’s the 12th most visited AI platform in the entire world, and still ranked way above Microsoft’s Copilot.

Two more stats to note in this section: Claude saw a decrease in monthly visitors for its website in December 2025, but an increase in monthly active users via the application.

• Website visitors were down 4.22%
• App users increased by 10.27%

These stats could indicate that fewer people are searching for Claude and visiting the website, but more people are eager to actually download and use the application. It may represent a trend where Claude usage gradually goes up over time, yet general website visits decline.

Who Uses Claude The Most?

After checking Similarweb’s analysis of the Claude website, we can see just who uses the platform more than anyone else. There’s one absolute standout statistic here, and it’s that 51.88% of users are aged 18 to 24.

That’s the majority of Claude users, but it might not shock you that much. However, when you look at other big AI platforms (ChatGPT and Gemini), our research shows that the 25 to 34 age range is the biggest category for both. Having over half of your users in one specific age range is quite staggering – here’s a closer look at all the age demographics:

• 18-24: 51.88%
• 25-34: 25%
• 35-44: 11.88%
• 45-54: 8.13%
• 55-64: 2.21%
• 65 and over: 1.14%

Finding the split between male and female Claude users is slightly more complicated because Anthropic doesn’t publish it, so we have to rely on data from third-party sources. The same Similarweb analysis quoted above reports that 60.3% of Claude users are male, and 39.7% are female.

Take that with a pinch of salt, as it only analyses the website, so there’s no data coming from the actual application.

Rounding off this section on who uses Claude, we can look at where most users come from. Semrush showcases that 24.28% of all Claude users come from the United States. If you’re looking for an overall figure, this equates to 43.3 million users in December 2025.

Country	Percentage of Claude Users
United States	24.28%
India	6.95%
Japan	4.28%
United Kingdom	3.54%
Brazil	3.53%

General Claude Usage Statistics

In this section you will find some general stats relating to how Claude is used and some other interesting tidbits about its efficacy and success rate. All of the data below comes from an Anthropic report in January 2026, ensuring you see the most accurate information straight from the source.

34% of all tasks on Claude revolve around computer and mathematical tasks. It’s the most dominant category by far, though it has gone down from 40% in March 2025. What you can deduce from this is that most people will use Claude for things like modifying software, correcting coding errors, and so on.

15% of Claude’s tasks fell into the Educational Instruction and Library category. This saw an increase from 9% in January 2025, displaying that more and more people use Claude for educational purposes. Anthropic reports that lots of users now rely on it for touching up their coursework or planning lessons.

13% of tasks in Claude were categorised as Office and Administrative Support. This rose by 3% across just four months, and Anthropic discovered that most of the use cases revolved around automation. It demonstrates that in office settings, users are calling on Claude to automate certain admin tasks.

Despite that final statistic, the report also states that 52% of Claude conversations were classified as augmentation, and 45% automation.

What does that mean? Effectively, augmentation tasks involve a lot of collaboration between the human user and Claude. It’s when someone asks Claude to do something but then helps refine the results, rather than just typing in a query and letting Claude do all the work – which is classified as automation.

In other words, the majority of users will interact with Claude and work with the system, rather than relying on it for full automation.

Anthropic’s report also reveals some key data that most AI platforms don’t release so willingly to the public. In this case, it’s to do with how fast Claude is at completing certain tasks, depending on their complexity. It took tasks at roughly a high-school and college level, revealing the following:

• Claude completes high-school tasks 9x faster than the human average
• Claude completes college-level tasks 12x faster than the human average

It’s a potential inclination that users see better productivity gains when dealing with slightly more complex tasks.

Claude AI Market Share Statistics

Let’s look at where Claude ranks amongst other AI tools in terms of the general market share. For this, we’ve taken two separate statistics to cover two different aspects of how Claude is used. The first shows the general AI market share as of January 2026 – and this takes into account all the various usages:

AI Platforms	Market Share
ChatGPT	64.5%
Gemini	21.5%
DeepSeek	3.7%
Grok	3.4%
Perplexity	2.0%
Claude	2.0%
Copilot	1.1%

So, in terms of the wider AI market, Claude is still within the top six – and when compared with last year, it’s around the same. In fact it’s one of the few platforms to see no reasonable decline or increase, staying at a steady 2% throughout 2025.

The second statistic looks at AI chatbot usage and the different market share percentages for this particular category. It’s an interesting one as it looks more at the market share for businesses relying on AI as a customer support tool:

AI Bot Platform	Market Share	Growth Trend (YoY)
ChatGPT	79.76%	0%
Perplexity	11.09%	+10%
Copilot	4.85%	+8%
Gemini	2.18%	+5%
Claude	1.12%	+14%

As you can see, Claude has an even lower market share in this department – though it has seen the largest growth over the past year. One other notable point is that Claude has the longest average session time of all AI bots, at 18 minutes.

Claude Usage Stats 2026 – The Key Takeaways

With just over 175 visitors every month, Claude remains a popular AI tool – particularly for tasks involving coding, mathematics and education.

While it lacks the resources and scale to compete as a mass-market AI platform, it clearly has found a niche and continues to grow in specific areas, most notably the AI chatbot market.