Anthropic opens India office as revenue doubles, enterprise adoption of Claude accelerates
India becomes Claude’s second-largest market; company ramps local hiring and applied AI support for enterprises, backs open MCP standard.
US-based Anthropic has formally opened its Bengaluru office, sharpening its enterprise AI push in India as the country emerges as Claude’s second-largest market globally.
The company said its India run-rate revenue has doubled since its October 2025 expansion announcement, indicating the pace at which enterprises, digital natives and startups are building on Claude across sectors.
Nearly half of Claude usage in India now comprises computer and mathematical tasks, including application development, legacy modernisation and production-grade software deployment.
This positions India as one of the most technically intensive markets for the company.
Anthropic’s managing director of India, Irina Ghose, said India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises.
“Already, it’s home to extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and a proven track record of using technology to improve people’s lives. That’s exactly the foundation you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most,” Ghose added.
The new Bengaluru office, Anthropic’s second in Asia after Tokyo, will focus on hiring local talent across enterprise sales, partnerships and technical roles to support growing customer demand.
Enterprise adoption gathers pace
Anthropic’s enterprise traction in India spans aviation, financial services and IT services.
Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster as part of a broader agentic AI push across operations.
CRED reports two times faster feature delivery and improved test coverage using Claude Code.
In the IT services segment, Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems and accelerate AI adoption across enterprise clients.
Indian startups including Razorpay, Enterpret and Emergent are embedding Claude.
At Razorpay, AI is integrated into risk systems, decision-making processes, and operations across the company.
At Enterpret, Claude powers its AI assistant, the engineering team builds with Claude Code daily, and the startup has shipped an MCP integration that brings customer insights directly into Claude.
Emergent, an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build software by describing what they want in plain language, reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months, built entirely with Claude.
To support this growing base, Anthropic said its India team will provide applied AI expertise to help enterprises design, deploy and scale Claude-powered solutions for industry-specific requirements.
Open standards and ecosystem play
Beyond enterprise deployments, Anthropic is pushing ecosystem alignment through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard designed to connect AI applications with external systems.
The company recently donated MCP to the Linux Foundation to drive broader interoperability.
The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), with the support of nonprofit Bharat Digital, recently launched the first official Indian government MCP server, enabling users of AI systems to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable manner.
In the private sector, Swiggy uses the MCP to allow people to order groceries and make dining reservations directly through Claude.
Anthropic’s India expansion also includes efforts to improve model performance across major Indian languages and sector-specific use cases, further localising Claude for enterprise and public sector adoption.
With revenue doubling, enterprise adoption scaling and India now positioned as a top global market, Anthropic is signalling long-term commitment to the country.