Anthropic released its latest Economic Index report tracking how Claude is being used across the economy, revealing significant shifts in usage patterns as AI adoption broadens beyond early adopters.

The report, analyzing Claude usage from February 2026, shows the platform's use cases have diversified substantially. The top 10 tasks now account for just 19% of all traffic on Claude.ai, down from 24% in November 2025.

This diversification has driven Claude adoption toward lower-wage tasks as usage expands beyond specialized high-value applications like coding. Personal queries around sports, product comparisons, and home maintenance have increased, reflecting what Anthropic describes as a standard "adoption curve" where later adopters use AI for a much wider range of activities.

Learning curves drive success rates

The report's key finding centers on how user experience shapes outcomes. Seasoned Claude users who have been on the platform for six months or more achieve a 10% higher success rate in their conversations compared to newer users.

These experienced users also employ Claude differently. They attempt higher-education tasks 6% more often and reduce personal use cases by 10%. The success rate advantage persists even after controlling for task selection, country of origin, and other factors.

Anthropic suggests this could reflect either the sophistication of early adopters or evidence of "learning-by-doing" where users develop better strategies through experience.

Users also demonstrate sophisticated model selection, choosing Opus for higher-wage tasks. Among paying Claude.ai users, Opus usage is 4 percentage points higher for coding tasks and 7 percentage points lower for tutoring tasks compared to average usage.

Global adoption remains uneven

Despite broadening use cases, global inequality in Claude adoption has persisted. The top 20 countries account for 48% of all per-capita usage, up from 45% in the previous report.

However, usage within the United States has become more evenly distributed. The 10 highest-usage states now account for 38% of domestic usage, down from 40%.

Coding remains the dominant use case across both Claude.ai and Anthropic's API, representing 35% of conversations on the consumer platform. The company notes that coding tasks are increasingly migrating from Claude.ai to automated API workflows, contributing to the diversification trend on the consumer platform.

The report builds on Anthropic's privacy-preserving analysis system and covers the period coinciding with the release of Claude Opus 4.6, three months after Claude Opus 4.5 launched.