Dataset: AI Usage
Entity: AI Usage Measurement
Field ID: sessions
Type: Number
Description: The number of distinct working sessions. Not interchangeable with requests or interactions. Most providers publish only some of the three, so an empty value is missing coverage rather than a zero.
Source: App
Transformation logic: N/A
App Mapping
GitHub Copilot |
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Anthropic Claude (coming soon) |
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Cursor (coming soon) | the number of distinct conversations in the record |
OpenAI Platform (coming soon) | N/A |
OpenAI Codex (coming soon) |
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Reporting Use Cases
The Sessions field counts distinct working sessions - a conversation, a thread, a command line session. It is the coarsest of the three volume measures and the most stable across tool changes.
Habit rather than volume: Sessions per active developer per week is a good measure of whether AI use has become routine, and it is far less sensitive than requests to which surface someone happens to use.
Session depth: Dividing interactions by sessions shows whether people are having short exchanges or long working sessions.
Different meanings per provider: A Claude Code session, a Codex thread and a Cursor conversation are not exactly the same unit. Compare a provider against itself over time rather than against another provider.
Empty is not zero: OpenAI Platform publishes no session count.
