The Top 1% of AI Spenders Allocate $7,500 to AI Per Employee Per Month
New data from Ramp's AI Index reveals that a small group of "AI‑pilled" companies now spend about $7,500 per employee each month on AI tools and compute. These firms use AI across a number of internal tasks, racking up bills for subscriptions, API access, usage costs, and more.
Ramp is (ironically) an AI company whose models purportedly simplify firms' financial operations. Using "aggregated and anonymized card and billpay spend" from over 70,000 US businesses, Ramp determined that the top 1% of this cohort spends $7,449 per employee per month on AI. For the top 10%, that figure sits around $611, while the median allocates a far more modest $11.38 per employee per month to AI. Ramp's lead economist, Ara Kharazian, likens this last price point to an enterprise subscription to ChatGPT or Claude.
For the most AI‑pilled firms (as Kharazian calls them), AI spend per worker remains below a typical...
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