On November 11, Forbes, citing Similarweb data, reported that Anthropic's Claude had about 1.253 billion website visits in October, up 23.8% month over month, a record high for the service; compared with the same month last year, that figure surged 536.3%.
By comparison, ChatGPT grew only 2.15% month over month in October, while Gemini actually edged down 0.15%—among mainstream AI chatbots, Claude's growth curve is the steepest.
Breaking into the global top 25 websites The rapid growth pushed Claude to No. 25 on Similarweb's global traffic ranking, up 6 places from the previous month, and into third place among AI chatbot websites, behind only ChatGPT and Gemini. Looking back at May to September this year, its monthly visits had long been stuck in the range of 950 million to 1 billion; in just one month, it opened a clear margin.
Popularity isn't the same as scale Still, this report card should be read with a cool head. The methodology counts only web visits, not unique users, and excludes in-app usage. More importantly, ChatGPT had about 6 billion visits in October, its highest in nearly a year and its fourth straight month of gains; its share of global AI traffic reached 81.2% in September. No matter how fast Claude runs, there is still an order-of-magnitude gap between its scale and the leaders. Meanwhile, Anthropic has filed paperwork with the SEC as it prepares to go public, and its traffic curve is a magnifying glass through which the capital markets are examining it.
