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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.

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

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.