Ramp AI Index now tracks token spend and model-level usage across 70,000 businesses

Corporate spend management platform Ramp has expanded its AI Index to include token volumes, spend breakdowns by model and provider, and weekly updates, giving businesses a far more granular view of what AI is actually costing them.

The numbers the Census Bureau missed

Ramp’s index, drawn from over 70,000 U.S. businesses on its platform, puts paid AI adoption at 56.1% as of August 2026. The Census Bureau’s equivalent estimate sits at 22.1%. That is not a rounding error. It is a 34-percentage-point discrepancy that suggests government surveys are capturing a fundamentally different picture of the market than what corporate card and spend data actually shows.

The spending distribution inside that 56.1% adoption figure is striking. The median firm on Ramp spent roughly $12 per month on AI. The top 1% of firms, on the other hand, spent somewhere between $7,200 and $7,450 per month. The index noted a trend of disciplined spending among top users, with certain firms showing declining per-employee AI expenditure month-over-month.

Anthropic leads OpenAI in business adoption share

As of August 2026, Anthropic held a 43.8% share of business AI adoption among Ramp’s client base, compared to OpenAI’s 39.8%.

Token Spend Management as a product category

The index expansion is tied to Ramp’s launch of a dedicated Token Spend Management product, which connects to business accounts and provides breakdowns by provider, model, and individual user on a weekly basis. The index is updated weekly, which also means the provider and model rankings will shift regularly.