Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
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The financials Anthropic shared with investors this week suggest that its AI coding tool, Claude Code, is every bit the business success the frontier lab wanted. The company recorded an operating profit in the second quarter, and 900% net revenue retention - that is, spending from the same customers in Q3 2025 grew nine times in Q3 2026. Anthropic has focused on getting enterprise users to stick around , and Wednesday announced a new suite of reporting tools designed to give those customers a more granular understanding of the value they get from their token spend. Using internal analytics and employee surveys, managers can view a team's work over a given date range, what the team produced, how much it cost, and where its workflows broke down. Anthropic says it won't use this data for model training by default. The reports will also offer recommendations on how to improve the results. This is a clear attempt to demonstrate the return on investment of Anthropic's tools, and to show customers how to improve it - a major concern among large customers. Anthropic is also creating pooled group budgets to allow teams to better manage token spending. Businesses have been hunting for that kind of information as they figure out how best to deploy AI tools. While usage among venture-backed firms is driving token spend, most of the Fortune 500 are not seeing major gains from deploying...
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