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title: "Anthropic Q3 revenue reaches $16.8B as growth slows before IPO"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/anthropic-q3-revenue-reaches-16-8b-as-growth-slows-before-ipo-92bedb
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-q3-revenue-hits-16-8b-but-growth-slows-ahead-of-planned-november-ipo/
published: 2026-10-15T09:50:43.000Z
topics: ["business", "llms"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Anthropic Q3 revenue reaches $16.8B as growth slows before IPO

*2026-10-15 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-q3-revenue-hits-16-8b-but-growth-slows-ahead-of-planned-november-ipo/)*

Anthropic reported $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue, up 45 percent, versus a 140 percent surge in Q2. With a November IPO planned, some investors now expect a valuation below $1.5 trillion.

**Why it matters:** The sharp deceleration makes this an early public-market test of whether frontier-lab revenue can keep compounding at AI-boom rates. How the IPO prices will shape funding expectations for OpenAI and other labs, and influence how aggressively they spend on compute.

**Topics:** business, llms

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