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Ramp AI Index: US business AI spending falls while usage rises; OpenAI and Anthropic split token share
Ramp economist Ara Kharazian’s Ramp AI Index finds US companies are spending less on AI while usage has climbed about 50% since a July peak and hit a record high at the end of September. Kharazian attributes the spending drop mainly to competition and price cuts from OpenAI and Anthropic; in the last week of September Anthropic accounted for 51% of token spending and OpenAI 44.5%, while open-source models remain under 5% of spending.
KEY POINTS
- Ramp economist Ara Kharazian’s Ramp AI Index finds US companies are spending less on AI while usage has climbed about 50% since a July peak and hit a record high at the end of September.
- Kharazian attributes the spending drop mainly to competition and price cuts from OpenAI and Anthropic; in the last week of September Anthropic accounted for 51% of token spending and OpenAI 44.5%, while open-source models remain under 5% of spending.
- The data show competition-driven price cuts (mainly between OpenAI and Anthropic) are lowering costs and boosting API usage, reshaping AI economics for large enterprise customers despite the analysis’ API-only, large-customer skew.
WHY IT MATTERS
The data show competition-driven price cuts (mainly between OpenAI and Anthropic) are lowering costs and boosting API usage, reshaping AI economics for large enterprise customers despite the analysis’ API-only, large-customer skew.