Top Enterprise AI Spenders Cut Per-Employee Costs by Nearly 10 Percent as Token Prices Fall

Corporate AI spending is showing signs of structural price compression. According to the Ramp AI Index, per-employee AI expenditure among the top 1 percent of corporate spenders in the US fell nearly 10 percent in August, driven by a 41 percent plunge in the cost per million tokens since March. Rather than standardizing solely on premium flagship models, businesses are shifting workloads toward cheaper alternatives, testing whether providers like OpenAI and Anthropic can scale volume fast enough to offset unit-price declines.