Newshot Boosting Anthropic's IPO: Claude's website visits hit a record high of 1.253 billion in October, surpassing OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini
IT Home, November 12: Forbes reported on November 11 local time that just as Anthropic prepares for its initial public offering (IPO), website traffic for its Claude has seen substantial growth, with an increase exceeding that of major competitors over the same period.
According to data provided by digital market analysis firm Similarweb, website visits for Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude reached approximately 1.3 billion in October this year, up 23.8% month-over-month and setting a record high.
Previously, from May to September this year, Claude's monthly visits remained basically between 950 million and 1 billion. Compared with the same period last year, Claude's visits in October this year increased by 536.3% year-over-year.
Among current mainstream AI chatbots, Claude's growth is particularly prominent. Similarweb statistics show that ChatGPT's October visits were about 6 billion, up 2.15% month-over-month; Google Gemini's were about 2.64 billion, down 0.15% month-over-month; and DeepSeek's were about 327.9 million, up 4.73% month-over-month.
Claude rose 6 places in Similarweb's ranking of the most visited websites worldwide in October, ranking 25th and becoming the third-ranked AI chatbot website, behind only ChatGPT and Gemini.
IT Home notes: these figures count website visits, not unique users, and do not include usage within native mobile apps.
Anthropic is currently preparing for an IPO. The company has submitted relevant documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and plans to proceed with the listing process. The listing has attracted market attention and has also made Claude's user growth data a window for observing Anthropic's market performance.
It is worth mentioning that ChatGPT's website visits are also resuming growth. Similarweb data shows that its October visits reached about 6 billion, the highest level in the past year and the fourth consecutive month of month-over-month growth. Previously, ChatGPT's monthly visits had fallen to about 5.4 billion in February and June this year.
Research previously published by Similarweb and AI growth agency Graphite also showed that ChatGPT's share of global AI traffic across its website and mobile app has rebounded. Forbes cited the research as saying that ChatGPT's share of global AI traffic reached 81.2% in September, higher than the low of 80.42% set in June.
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