Does Claude have ads?

What Anthropic said

In a post titled "Claude is a space to think", Anthropic argued that conversations with an AI assistant are more personal than searches or social feeds, and that ad incentives conflict with an assistant that acts in its users' interests. It said it would expand access to Claude without advertising¹².

The Super Bowl campaign

Anthropic's spots showed human-like advisers breaking off from earnest advice into awkward product pitches, a jab at ad-supported chatbots². The campaign was released on February 4, 2026, ahead of the game³.

OpenAI's response

Sam Altman called the ads dishonest and said OpenAI would never run ads the way the spots depicted³. OpenAI's published ad principles commit it to keeping ads separate from answers and conversations private from advertisers⁴.

How we track it

Claude is listed as "No ads" on the status board. We'd update it if Anthropic changed its policy or ads appeared in Claude. AI Ads Tracker isn't affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI or any company it covers.