US firms pay 1.65 percent more for AI in October
The top one percent of firms pay a median $10,200 for each worker each month. A typical firm pays $16.32.
Ramp is a US company for business payments. It says that US firms pay 1.65 percent more for AI in October 2026 than in September. This is a new high. Ramp economist Ara Kharazian says that one percent of firms give 80 percent of the revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic. The data come from more than 85,000 US firms.
How it works
The Ramp AI Index counts the payments of Ramp customers for AI. Software teams make 72 percent of the total. Their share is lower than in summer. Customer support teams went from 0.8 percent in June to 13.3 percent in October.
The numbers
- OpenAI revenue increased 2.1 percent. Anthropic increased 0.5 percent.
- Anthropic has 44.8 percent of firms. OpenAI has 40.6 percent.
- The price of one million tokens (small units of text) fell 21 percent.
- The costliest models have 69.5 percent of the total.
What is not known
Ramp says that its data are not typical. Its customers are large and use much technology. AI use can be too high in the data. Free tools and accounts of single workers can be missing.
Insight: Heavy buyers carry AI income, most firms do not
Ramp says that AI use is almost not in use in other sectors. The top group is technology and finance firms. West Monroe, a consultancy, found that almost 3 in 4 US technology chiefs give AI more than 10 percent of budget. Gartner found that only 13 percent see large results. It seems that a small group of heavy buyers pays AI sellers, while most firms test. Find your group.
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