55.7%
Jul 2026 (latest)
BUSINESSES PAYING FOR AI (RAMP)
percent of US businesses on Ramp with a paid AI transaction in the month · 2023–2026 · neither direction is "better" · Ramp Economics Lab, Ramp AI Index
7.5%
Jan 2023
55.7%
high · Jul 2026
7.5%
low · Jan 2023
+48 pts
since Jan 2023
┊ on the monthly chart the dashed line marks ChatGPT released (Nov 30, 2022)
Method & caveats. Share of businesses using Ramp's corporate cards and bill pay (30,000+, skewed toward younger and technology-forward firms by Ramp's own description) with a transaction for an AI product or service in the month, identified from merchant and line-item text. Spend-based, so free tools and personal accounts are invisible. Monthly from January 2023. Ramp publishes the series only inside its web page, not as a file, so the values are checked in and re-parsed on refresh; this is the one row in the section that depends on a page layout rather than a published file.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://ramp.com/data/ai-index
- https://ramp.com/data/how-we-built-the-ramp-ai-index
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Employment-And-Jobs
Monthly data
The publisher's own cadence, every period. The annual table below is derived from these values (annual average); the annual figures are what the almanac pages and the machine-readable exports carry.
| Period | Businesses Paying for AI (Ramp) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 55.7% | +0.8 pts |
| Jun 2026 | 55.0% | +0.8 pts |
| May 2026 | 54.2% | +1.2 pts |
| Apr 2026 | 53.0% | +1.7 pts |
| Mar 2026 | 51.3% | +2.2 pts |
| Feb 2026 | 49.1% | +2.1 pts |
| Jan 2026 | 47.0% | +1.1 pts |
| Dec 2025 | 45.9% | −0.0 pts |
| Nov 2025 | 45.9% | +0.8 pts |
| Oct 2025 | 45.1% | −0.1 pts |
| Sep 2025 | 45.2% | +0.2 pts |
| Aug 2025 | 45.0% | +0.9 pts |
| Jul 2025 | 44.1% | +1.4 pts |
| Jun 2025 | 42.7% | +0.8 pts |
| May 2025 | 41.9% | +1.1 pts |
| Apr 2025 | 40.8% | +1.6 pts |
| Mar 2025 | 39.2% | +0.5 pts |
| Feb 2025 | 38.7% | +0.9 pts |
| Jan 2025 | 37.7% | +1.1 pts |
| Dec 2024 | 36.6% | +0.3 pts |
| Nov 2024 | 36.4% | +0.5 pts |
| Oct 2024 | 35.8% | +0.6 pts |
| Sep 2024 | 35.2% | +1.0 pts |
| Aug 2024 | 34.2% | +0.3 pts |
| Jul 2024 | 33.9% | +0.4 pts |
| Jun 2024 | 33.5% | +0.3 pts |
| May 2024 | 33.2% | +0.1 pts |
| Apr 2024 | 33.1% | −0.2 pts |
| Mar 2024 | 33.4% | +0.6 pts |
| Feb 2024 | 32.7% | +0.2 pts |
| Jan 2024 | 32.5% | +0.8 pts |
| Dec 2023 | 31.7% | +1.2 pts |
| Nov 2023 | 30.5% | +0.8 pts |
| Oct 2023 | 29.6% | +0.6 pts |
| Sep 2023 | 29.0% | +1.1 pts |
| Aug 2023 | 27.9% | +0.8 pts |
| Jul 2023 | 27.1% | +1.5 pts |
| Jun 2023 | 25.7% | −0.4 pts |
| May 2023 | 26.1% | +1.7 pts |
| Apr 2023 | 24.4% | +3.5 pts |
| Mar 2023 | 20.9% | +8.8 pts |
| Feb 2023 | 12.1% | +4.6 pts |
| Jan 2023 | 7.5% | — |
Annual data
| Year | Businesses Paying for AI (Ramp) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 52.2% | +9.5 pts |
| 2025 | 42.7% | +8.5 pts |
| 2024 | 34.2% | +9.8 pts |
| 2023 | 24.4% | — |
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