> In Puerto Rico, a $20-a-month AI plan is 0.88% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Gemini is officially offered; Claude and OpenAI are not. 87% of people use the internet, and Claude use per working-age person is 1.68 times the world average.

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AI access, cost and use · Caribbean · North America · data read 1 Oct 2026

# Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, a $20-a-month AI plan is 0.88% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Gemini is officially offered; Claude and OpenAI are not. 87% of people use the internet, and Claude use per working-age person is 1.68 times the world average.

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of the median living standard for a $20 plan

no recent household survey

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of people for whom the plan is over a tenth of their living standard

1of 3

leading services officially offered

Gemini

87%

of people use the internet

world 74% · 3.2 m people

## The figures · Puerto Rico

People

3.2 m

Median living standard

no estimateno national survey

A $20 plan takes

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For whom it is over a tenth

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GNI per person

$27,320plan is 0.88% of it

Claude use per person

1.68×world average = 1

Notable AI models built here

0

## Officially offered here · 1 of 3

[Run it yourself →](https://themodelindex.org/local/)

Claude · claude.ai app

Not listed

OpenAI · API

Not listed

Gemini · web app

Yes

From each lab's own published list: Anthropic's Claude.ai countries, OpenAI's API countries and Google's Gemini web app countries. Not listed means not officially served; open-weight models can be run anywhere.

## Against North America and the world · regional figures are medians or population-weighted

| MEASURE | PUERTO RICO | NORTH AMERICA | WORLD |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A $20 plan ÷ median living standard | – | 6.4% | 9.9% |
| People for whom it is over a tenth | – | 12% | 63% |
| Plan price ÷ GNI per person | 0.88% | 1.3% | 2.9% |
| People using the internet | 87% | 88% | 74% |
| Claude use per working-age person | 1.68× | 3.32× | 1.00× |
| Notable AI models built | 0 | 752 | 1,256 |

## What it is used for · Puerto Rico against the world

[Report ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report)

Puerto Rico

Work 41%

Personal 43%

Coursework 16%

The world

Work 42%

Personal 41%

Coursework 17%

Share of the world's Claude use

0.08%0.04% of the world's people

Work

41%world 42%

Personal

43%world 41%

Coursework

16%world 17%

Handed over to the model (automation)

50%world 48%

Anthropic Economic Index, May 2026: Claude.ai conversations by country. One product from one lab, so read it as a signal of who is using frontier models, not a census.

## What people make with it · share of conversations

Document or report

17%

Explanation or answer

17%

Advice or recommendation

12%

Analysis or summary

5%

The most common things people in Puerto Rico ask Claude to produce.

## Neighbours · Caribbean · lightest burden first

| COUNTRY | PEOPLE | ONLINE | $20 PLAN ÷ MEDIAN LIVING STANDARD | OVER A TENTH | CLAUDE USE PER PERSON | OFFICIAL LISTS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Saint Lucia](https://themodelindex.org/world/saint-lucia/) | 180k | 68% | 4.0% | 9% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Jamaica](https://themodelindex.org/world/jamaica/) | 2.8 m | 90% | 6.3% | 26% | 0.66× | 3 of 3 |
| [Grenada](https://themodelindex.org/world/grenada/) | 117k | 70% | 6.4% | 22% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Dominican Republic](https://themodelindex.org/world/dominican-republic/) | 12 m | 91% | 8.2% | 39% | 0.67× | 3 of 3 |
| [Haiti](https://themodelindex.org/world/haiti/) | 12 m | 48% | no estimate | – | 0.14× | 3 of 3 |
| [Cuba](https://themodelindex.org/world/cuba/) | 11 m | 70% | no estimate | – | not reported | 0 of 3 |
| Puerto Rico | 3.2 m | 87% | no estimate | – | 1.68× | 1 of 3 |
| [Trinidad and Tobago](https://themodelindex.org/world/trinidad-and-tobago/) | 1.4 m | 82% | no estimate | – | 1.05× | 3 of 3 |
| [Bahamas](https://themodelindex.org/world/bahamas/) | 403k | 92% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Barbados](https://themodelindex.org/world/barbados/) | 283k | 70% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Curaçao](https://themodelindex.org/world/curacao/) | 156k | 68% | no estimate | – | not reported | 1 of 3 |
| [Aruba](https://themodelindex.org/world/aruba/) | 109k | 97% | no estimate | – | not reported | 2 of 3 |
| [Virgin Islands (U.S.)](https://themodelindex.org/world/virgin-islands-u-s/) | 104k | 64% | no estimate | – | not reported | 1 of 3 |
| [Saint Vincent and the Grenadines](https://themodelindex.org/world/saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines/) | 100k | 76% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Antigua and Barbuda](https://themodelindex.org/world/antigua-and-barbuda/) | 94k | 73% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Cayman Islands](https://themodelindex.org/world/cayman-islands/) | 76k | 81% | no estimate | – | not reported | 2 of 3 |
| [Dominica](https://themodelindex.org/world/dominica/) | 66k | 82% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Saint Kitts and Nevis](https://themodelindex.org/world/saint-kitts-and-nevis/) | 47k | 77% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Turks and Caicos Islands](https://themodelindex.org/world/turks-and-caicos-islands/) | 47k | 0% | no estimate | – | not reported | 1 of 3 |
| [Sint Maarten (Dutch part)](https://themodelindex.org/world/sint-maarten-dutch-part/) | 44k | – | no estimate | – | not reported | 1 of 3 |
| [Virgin Islands (British)](https://themodelindex.org/world/virgin-islands-british/) | 40k | 78% | no estimate | – | not reported | 1 of 3 |
| [Saint Martin (French part)](https://themodelindex.org/world/saint-martin-french-part/) | 25k | – | no estimate | – | not reported | 2 of 3 |

[All countries →](https://themodelindex.org/world/)

## The foundations · Puerto Rico against the world

[World Bank ↗](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator)

People using the internet

87%

world 74%

People with electricity

100%

world 92%

Mobile subscriptions per 100 people

126

world 112

Fixed broadband lines per 100 people

28

world 20.1

Enrolled in university-level education

78%

world 44%

Research spending, share of GDP

0.43%

world 2.6%

Researchers per million people

332

world 1,652

Secure internet servers per million people

471

world 16,381

The latest World Bank figure for each measure. The tick marks the world figure.

A $20-a-month plan ($240 a year, US list price) against the median household living standard per person in each country. The median is from the latest national household survey (World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform), revalued from 2021 purchasing-power dollars into US dollars at recent prices and official exchange rates, assuming real living standards have not changed since the survey. Some surveys measure income and others consumption, which includes food people grow and housing they own, so this is a living standard, not cash to spare. Countries with no survey since 2015 or no defensible exchange rate are left blank.

[World Bank household surveys ↗](https://pip.worldbank.org/) [Anthropic countries ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries) [OpenAI countries ↗](https://platform.openai.com/docs/supported-countries) [Gemini countries ↗](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13575153) [Anthropic Economic Index ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report) [Epoch AI notable models ↗](https://epoch.ai/data/notable-ai-models)

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/world/puerto-rico/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01