Before Anthropic had a single employee in India, the country had become its second-largest market globally — accounting for 6% of all Claude conversations worldwide, second only to the United States.
On February 16, Anthropic formalised that relationship by opening its first India office in Bengaluru. The office is led by Irina Ghose, who served as Managing Director of Microsoft India before joining Anthropic in January 2026. Hiring is underway across engineering, sales, partnerships, and applied AI roles.
Speaking at Anthropic's Builder Summit in Bengaluru the same day, in front of developers and entrepreneurs, CEO Dario Amodei disclosed the revenue picture directly: "Anthropic's business run-rate revenue within India has doubled over the last four months, and Claude Code may have even grown faster."
What's driving it is not general AI curiosity. Close to half of all Claude usage in India involves coding and technical tasks, per Anthropic's own Economic Index. Amodei addressed that directly at the summit: "One of the most unique things about India is maybe the technical intensity of the usage of Claude. We have always seen a mixture of casual consumer use and prosumer and developer use. But I think that's even more so here in India."
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Which companies are using Claude in India
Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, is using Claude Code to ship custom software at lower cost. CRED, an Indian fintech company, achieved 2x faster feature delivery and 10% better test coverage after adopting it. Cognizant, the American IT firm with a base in India, has deployed Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems. Other companies include Rocket, Emergent, Razorpay and Enterpret, per Anthropic's release.
On February 17, 2026, Infosys, a top Indian IT consulting and services provider, also announced a strategic collaboration from its headquarters in Bengaluru with Anthropic to deploy Claude-powered AI solutions across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development.
Courts, Classrooms, and 10 Indian Languages
Education accounts for 12% of Claude.ai activity in India. Pratham — Anthropic's first strategic AI lab partner — is piloting a Claude-powered testing tool currently live with 1,500 students across 20 schools, targeting 100 schools by end of 2026. The same tool reached over 5,000 learners in Pratham's Second Chance program, which supports women who left formal schooling.
India has 50 million pending court cases. Adalat AI launched a national WhatsApp helpline on February 16, powered by Claude, delivering instant case updates, document summaries, and legal translation in native Indian languages.
India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched the first official government MCP server using Anthropic's open-source Model Context Protocol, enabling users to query national statistics through AI systems. Six months before the office opened, Anthropic also launched a company-wide effort to improve Claude's performance across 10 officially recognised Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
On the scale and energy of the Indian market, Amodei said at the Builder Summit: "The efficiency of the market here, the energy of very large numbers of people wanting to buy something and build something — that greatly exceeds what I've seen anywhere else."
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