This reading’s conditionsAs of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · 7 platforms · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 07:20:57Z
- Non-discourse filter, not applied yet
- Spam, bot and incentive records haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at kappa 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60
How records were linked to the subject
- Unambiguous alias, V1
- 48 records linked. Precision 100.0% (95% interval 91.2% to 100.0%), n 40 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Unambiguous alias, V2
- 155 records linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
Measured statements
In development Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
On Reddit, 175 distinct people posted about Claude API between 30 March and 5 April 2026: 202 records, an estimated 0.07% of that week's Reddit records about AI, leaving out templated automated records (100.0% of these records had an identifiable author).
Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
6 more statements withheld. n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. No records about Claude API on arXiv between 30 March and 5 April 2026. Withheld for platforms not counted this week: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the records were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive | |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive |
| arXiv | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive1 day late heavy |
Not counted: Bluesky, YouTube and Google News, collected under an earlier method.
Not counted: Exa, not being collected yet.
A day counts once it has settled: once the records still expected for it are below the threshold, or, for records loaded afterwards from an archive, once they’re loaded. Coverage day by day is in this reading’s conditions. How coverage is recorded.
This reading was made with methods that are still being validated. Every figure says which state it’s in.
Why: Its methods are still being validated.
- Released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W14
- Window
- 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026
- Version
- 4 · no revisions
- Next release
- Wednesday 15 Apr 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
Claude API in each platform’s table
Where Claude API sits among every ranked subject on each platform. The heavy mark is Claude API; every thin mark is another subject.
#24 of 43 on Reddit175 people · Claude 14,058 (#1)
43 ranked subjects, each a tick on Reddit’s own people scale, 0 to 14,058. 42 more subjects aren’t ranked: their people figures are hidden (n 0–18 people, below the threshold of 20), so they aren’t drawn.
Not ranked on Hacker News: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
Distinct people who posted about each subject on each platform, 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W14’s summary table (published). Each strip is on its own scale and nothing is added across platforms: one person can post on several. arXiv, Google News and Exa carry articles, which have no authors, so they have no ranking by people.
Attention
How many people posted about Claude API on each platform, and Claude API’s share of that platform’s records. One row per platform, each on its own terms.
n 202 records · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled · sample: 10 records, one per author
Not counted this week. Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa have no day in this window that counts, so they have no figures here.
Hacker News. People hidden: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and records hidden: n 1 records, below the threshold of 20 records.
arXiv. People not applicable: arXiv records are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Share and records hidden: n 0 records, below the threshold of 20 records.
Records published 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms. Share is Claude API’s records over all records AIDRAN captured on that platform in the window. Reddit’s records are its posts and comments. A normal share is claude API's share of each platform's posts in the 13 earlier stored weeks of the same era (2026-W01, 2026-W02, 2026-W03, 2026-W04, 2026-W05, 2026-W06, 2026-W07, 2026-W08, 2026-W09, 2026-W10, 2026-W11, 2026-W12, 2026-W13), per platform. Its figures are in those readings. Choose any number to see what it rests on and the records behind it.
Stored weeks
Claude API in every week AIDRAN has stored so far, four weeks at a time (three on a phone), opening on this reading’s week.
W12–W14
W11–W14
People
W11
W12
W13
W14
Share of Reddit records
W11
W12
W13
W14
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 7 March 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: capture began at 00:24 UTC on 17 September 2026
Claude API’s people and share of platform records, W01–W39, 39 stored weeks. Each chart is on its own scale from all of them. All 39 are in development; the open dot is this reading.
Communities
The communities the conversation about Claude API happened in, grouped by platform.
Redditeach track is Claude API’s 202 Reddit records
- r/ClaudeAI users
- r/LocalLLaMA builders
The two communities this reading stores; the rest of the track is records in communities it doesn’t list.
Hacker News
Records about Claude API by community, 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. Each platform is drawn on its own scale. The word after each community is its type: who is there, not what it’s about (users are people who use one AI product; builders build with AI). A record counts once, in the community it was posted in.
The family
The products under Claude in AIDRAN’s subject tree, each ranked on Reddit in its own right.
- Claude 14,058
- Claude Code 4,289
- Claude Cowork 445
- Claude app 388
- Claude API 175
Claude’s entry includes these; not added.Each product is also its own entry in the summary table.
Distinct people on Reddit, 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W14’s summary table; published. Every bar is on Reddit’s people scale, where Claude is first. The products under Claude also rank on Hacker News (Claude Code #2, 47 people); see their readings.
Change
Compared with the previous reading of Claude API, for 23–29 Mar 2026.
| Measure | 23–29 Mar 2026 | 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| People posting about Claude API, Reddit · provisional | 160n 179 records | n 202 records |
| Claude API’s share of Reddit records · provisional | 0.1%n 179 records | n 202 records |
In every value: records not about AI or unclear removed (relevance run 61); templated automated records removed on Reddit and Bluesky (templated-repetition rule run 518).
12 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about Claude API, Bluesky. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about Claude API, YouTube. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about Claude API, Hacker News. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about Claude API, arXiv. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about Claude API, Google News. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about Claude API, Exa. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- Claude API’s share of Bluesky records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- Claude API’s share of YouTube records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- Claude API’s share of Hacker News records. n 1 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 1 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 1 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 1 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- Claude API’s share of arXiv records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- Claude API’s share of Google News records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- Claude API’s share of Exa records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
Change compares this reading with the previous stored reading of the same subject, usually last week’s, and both endpoints stay visible with their dates. Each value carries its n; open it for its full conditions, coverage included. Stored weeks, above, cross eras, which marks a change in how weeks were captured: March era weeks were rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May, Archive backfill weeks were backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only) and September era weeks were captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
Conditions
What every figure on this page rests on.
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 07:20:57Z
- Records without facts
- 0
- Author coverage basis
- records with an identifiable platform identity; article sources have none by definition
Coverage in this window, day by day for each platform, is drawn once: in the conditions rail beside the measured statements.
Coverage in this window
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
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- 2026-04-05 · backfilled
Bluesky
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method
YouTube
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method
Hacker News
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
- 2026-04-04 · backfilled
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arXiv
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled · late heavy
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
- 2026-04-04 · backfilled
- 2026-04-05 · backfilled
Google News
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method · late heavy
Exa
- 2026-03-30 · not started
- 2026-03-31 · not started
- 2026-04-01 · not started
- 2026-04-02 · not started
- 2026-04-03 · not started
- 2026-04-04 · not started
- 2026-04-05 · not started
Excluded: posts not about AI or unclear
Records linked to Claude API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Reddit
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 13 records · Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Records linked to Claude API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Hacker News
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 records · Hacker News · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Records linked to Claude API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, arXiv
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 records · arXiv · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: templated automated posts
Records linked to Claude API that templated-repetition rule run 518 flags as one account repeating a template, Reddit
Flags from rule run 518: clusters of 4 or more near-identical records in the week where one account posted at least half. In blind checks of samples, about 9 in 10 flags were one account repeating a template.
n 5 records · Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Not counted this week, so not shown: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
These conditions were frozen when the reading was created and are never recomputed.
Not in this reading yet
Parts this method doesn’t produce yet. They’re named, never shown as empty.
- Frames
- Frames aren’t measured yet.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for frames come with frames. The quotes here are the fixed samples behind this reading’s figures.
Cite this reading
In development Published 2 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W14. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'Claude API', release 2026-W14, reading r_270f6181f171 (v4). Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_270f6181f171
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. Cite the permanent link, never a browse path.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
References
Claude API as its maker describes it. Chosen by hand and checked, and not part of the measurement.
Context from the week
News and analysis about Claude API published that week, found and checked for relevance. It’s outside AIDRAN’s measurement: no figure on this page comes from it.