OpenAI's annualized revenue has surpassed $40 billion, roughly double its level at the end of 2025, as the artificial intelligence sector accelerates growth while simultaneously lowering prices for leading models.
The milestone follows a run rate that jumped more than 20 percent in July alone, according to OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The company, which reached an $852 billion valuation in March, has reduced the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80 percent and cut Terra pricing by 20 percent. OpenAI attributed the reductions to improvements in inference systems that lowered serving costs by 20 percent and boosted token-generation efficiency by more than 15 percent. Prices for leading U.S. models have dropped by nearly a quarter since mid-July.
Competitor Anthropic, whose annualized revenue exceeded $47 billion as of May, is expected to pursue an initial public offering as early as this fall. Anthropic scrapped a planned September price increase and instead launched its Opus 5 model at half the cost of its top-tier Fable 5.