New Delhi, June 16 -- Anthropic's Claude earns an average of $2.76 per user, 1.5 times what ChatGPT generates, and converts a higher share of its iOS base into paying subscribers, according to new Sensor Tower data, as OpenAI's grip on the AI application market weakens significantly.

The findings, drawn from Sensor Tower's State of AI report, suggest that user volume and revenue per user are diverging across the AI application sector. ChatGPT retains a commanding lead in total monthly active users but is ceding ground on the metrics that matter most to platform economics.

ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps passed 1 billion monthly active usersin May 2026, just three years after the application first appeared on smartphone platforms.

Even s...