India’s technical usage of Claude at 50%, higher than 30% in rest of the world, Anthropic says

The scale and reach Anthropic has in India has prompted it to open an office in Bengaluru, India’s tech capital

Around 50 percent of Claude, an AI tool, users in India use the software for technical purposes, and not general queries. That share stands at 30 percent in the rest of the world for Anthropic, Guillaume Princen said in Bengaluru.

Princen is Global Head of startups and Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Anthropic.

“50% of the usage of Claude in India is for technical usage. So this is for UI, for code debugging, and general software development,” Princen said.

“In the rest of the world, that number is 30 percent. So, India is using disproportionately to build. And that for us at Anthropic is a real signal.”

India, the world’s fourth-largest developer community, is also Anthropic’s second largest market after the United States.

“India is a key market for us. Around a third, or 33 percent of the Claude conversations are happening here in India. It shows the scale here,” Princen said.

The scale and reach Anthropic has in India has prompted it to open an office in Bengaluru, India’s tech capital.

The office will be functional by Q1 2026 and will help Anthropic launch its key offerings faster and sooner to one of its largest and key markets.

“You'll see us see more of us. because we really want to have a local presence, we really want to be closer to you, we'll have teams across the board to support the founders and any other parts of the community. So that's really important to us,” Princen concluded.

Princen was speaking at Anthropic’s first developer day in India, hosted by Accel, one of its investors.