industrySEP 10 08:09 UTC
AI spending per employee at top US firms drops nearly 10% in August
The Ramp AI Index reports that per-employee AI spending at the top 1% of US companies declined almost 10% in August. The cost per million tokens has fallen 41% since March 2026, and businesses are increasingly moving workloads away from pricier frontier models toward cheaper alternatives. The shift points to both falling inference prices and a change in how enterprises choose which models to use.