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The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.
Ramp data: top 1% of firms spend $7,500/employee/month on AI. Top 10% spend $611. The median? $11.38. Spend among power users grew 14.1% last month.
TL;DR
- The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI.
- The median firm spends only $11.38 per employee per month on AI.
- AI spending per employee for the top 1% grew by 14.1% in the last month.
- The top 10% of firms spend approximately $611 monthly per employee on AI.
- For most companies, AI spending is a negligible part of their software budgets.
- Some companies are seeing AI compute costs exceed employee salaries.
- Agentic AI tools are driving consumption up, despite a drop in per-token prices.
- AI-pilled firms mix and match AI models and platforms, optimizing for cost and capability.