Anthropic is facing increasingly fierce market competition, and customers are also concerned about the high price of its AI tools. However, it is still difficult to shake the leading position of the popular product Claude Code. From the end of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, a large number of companies switched to Claude Code, and in many scenarios, they crowded out the market share of Microsoft GitHub Copilot and AI code tool manufacturer Cursor. In recent months, as Anthropic switched to a pay-as-you-go billing model, customer usage costs have risen sharply; at the same time, competitor OpenAI has continued to iterate on CodeX, increasing its competitiveness significantly, and making great strides in open source model capabilities from China. Even though major companies actively seek cost control solutions, many still choose to continue using Claude Code.

Anthropic is facing increasingly fierce market competition, and customers are also concerned about the high price of its AI tools. However, it is still difficult to shake the leading position of the popular product Claude Code. From the end of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, a large number of companies switched to Claude Code, and in many scenarios, they crowded out the market share of Microsoft GitHub Copilot and AI code tool manufacturer Cursor. In recent months, as Anthropic switched to a pay-as-you-go billing model, customer usage costs have risen sharply; at the same time, competitor OpenAI has continued to iterate on CodeX, increasing its competitiveness significantly, and making great strides in open source model capabilities from China. Even though major companies actively seek cost control solutions, many still choose to continue using Claude Code.