1% of companies generate 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s enterprise revenue. The top 1% of firms spend about 600x per employee what the median firm spends.
Among individual developers, the top 1% write 46x more AI-generated code per day than the median user and merge 15x more pull requests.
A small group of agentic power users — often senior engineers running multiple AI agents at once — produce a wildly outsized share of commits.
These people mostly work at the Hyperscalers (Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon). They are big spenders because they have huge engineering headcounts, but they’re not uniquely intense users.
A senior engineer at a 20-person startup can out-produce a typical big-company engineer.
The heaviest users show up everywhere — inside Meta and Google, but also at Stripe, Salesforce, Anthropic itself, and small startups.
Tool choice splits by company size.
Small companies lean toward Claude Code.
Big companies mostly buy GitHub Copilot for procurement/security reasons.
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