GPT-5.6 Sol powers OpenAI's revenue rebound over Anthropic

The pendulum in the OpenAI–Anthropic revenue race just swung back. Three weeks after Anthropic briefly passed OpenAI on quarterly revenue for the first time, OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol has it growing again — and the spending data behind the scenes backs that up.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, launched July 9, has driven a sharp revenue turnaround — up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue climbing more than 50 percent. The numbers come from OpenAI's own commentary to CNBC, but the more interesting signal is independent: Ramp's business-API spending index shows OpenAI outgrowing Anthropic again in Q3, 82 percent quarter-over-quarter versus 76 percent. That reverses the trend we covered in mid-August, when Anthropic's $65 billion annualized run rate and $11.6 billion quarterly revenue put it ahead of OpenAI's $6.7 billion for the first time.

The reversal is worth taking seriously because it's not just OpenAI's word. Ramp's card-data index is one of the few real-time, third-party reads on which lab enterprises are actually paying, and it had shown Anthropic pulling ahead on momentum. A 6-point gap the other way in a single quarter is the kind of swing that suggests GPT-5.6 Sol landed with paying customers in a way its predecessors did not. Enterprise growth north of 50 percent is the figure to watch — that is the segment both labs are fighting hardest to win, and it is where margins live.

What happens next is the open question. The Decoder reports OpenAI's next model, Astra, is set to launch within weeks, and rumors point to Anthropic countering with an improved Fable 5.1. Both labs have also seen growth slow as open-weight models eat into the paid frontier tier, so a single quarter's swing is not a coronation. But the narrative that Anthropic had definitively taken the lead now has a competitor's comeback story attached to it — and the spending data says the comeback is real, at least for now.

What to watch: whether Astra's launch extends OpenAI's momentum or just borrows against it, and whether Anthropic's Fable 5.1 refresh closes the Q3 gap back.

Is this OpenAI's durable lead or a one-quarter bounce before the next model drop — tell us in the comments.

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