06 / 11 · The Real Cost: Compute
$1.60 for Every Dollar
Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on compute in 2025 against $4.6 billion of revenue: about $1.60 for every dollar it brought in, drawn to scale.
From the article Inside Anthropic's $518 Billion Bet →SourceCompute and revenue, 2025: Anthropic’s draft IPO filing, as reported by Reuters. The ratio is our arithmetic.