It’s taken 16 weeks to get there, however Anthropic’s AI app Claude has hit a notable milestone: It crossed $1 million in gross cellular app income throughout iOS and Android. Practically half of that income has been generated by customers within the U.S., in response to new information from app intelligence agency Appfigures.
Nonetheless, Claude remains to be rating far behind high rival ChatGPT, which is No. 1 by general downloads and No. 26 by income within the U.S. on iOS. Claude is simply ninety fifth within the Productiveness class by downloads and 68th in that class by income.
Earlier this yr, we reported that Claude’s cellular app had seen a reasonably tepid reception for its first week in the marketplace, the place it solely pulled in 157,000 international downloads. By comparability, ChatGPT had seen 480,000 cellular app installs throughout the first 5 days of its iOS-only, U.S. launch. The very best rank Claude had achieved within the U.S. was a number of days after its iOS debut when it reached No. 55 on the highest free iPhone app charts, Appfigures mentioned on the time.
Nonetheless, Claude was capable of hit its first million in income sooner than different AI app rivals. Although it trailed far behind ChatGPT, which solely took three weeks to succeed in this milestone, Claude got here in forward of Microsoft’s Copilot and Perplexity, which took 19 weeks and 22 weeks to hit the $1 million determine, respectively.
The most important marketplace for Claude by downloads is the U.S. at 32.5%, adopted by India (9.6%), Japan (6.8%), the U.Ok. (5.1%) and Germany (3.2%). Mixed, these high 5 markets account for 57.2% of Claude’s cellular app installs.
The image of Claude’s monetization on cellular is considerably related, because the U.S. leads once more with a 48.4% share of income. That’s adopted by Japan (6.7%), Germany (4.3%), the U.Ok. (4.3%) and South Korea (2.8%) for a mixed share of 66.8%.
Past its sizable burn price as a startup, Claude’s challenges particular to the cellular client market will doubtless proceed within the days forward — notably when Apple Intelligence launches, providing Siri customers direct entry to ChatGPT through their iPhones.
