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Anthropic Has Surpassed OpenAI In Enterprise Adoption At 41% Vs 39.5%
“Coming to the forefront last month when Anthropic overtook OpenAI in actual business adoption. So now Anthropic sits at about 41% of US firms are using Anthropic. 39.5% of firms are using OpenAI. Anthropic is still growing. OpenAI is relatively flat.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 11:40 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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Seat-Based Contracts Still Represent Up To 75% Of Software Spend
“Seat-based contracts are still the vast majority of spend from most software. It's like, 60 to 75%. The rest of it is really just flat platform subscriptions. Metered usage is extremely small, like, five percent. Less than five percent.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 42:20 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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Anthropic captures 73% of first-time enterprise AI spend, per Ramp
“Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time. 73%. Just 10 weeks ago, the split with OpenAI was fifty-fifty, and it was sixty-forty in OpenAI's favor as recently as December.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 25:56 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
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The Median Enterprise Spends Only $11 Monthly On AI Software
“Again, median firm is only spending 11 dollars a month, so there's a lot of room to grow, but even for the one percent, it's still going up.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 30:49 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Supported
DeepSeek Is One Of Ramp's Fastest Growing Vendors Despite Low Share
“Last month, DeepSeq was one of the fastest growing vendors on ramp. And yet, it's still a very small share of AI spend that is actually going through those rails.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 19:20 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Supported
Only 5% Of Ramp Enterprises Use Open-Source AI Platforms
“Five percent of firms on our platform are even using these kinds of open source platforms. Last year is one percent, so it's five x growth, and it's actually going faster than the growth that's happening for open ion anthropic, but it's a relatively small perc…”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 33:52 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Supported
Top 1% Of Enterprise AI Spenders Average Eight Distinct Vendors
“The top one percent of spenders on AI use eight vendors on average, whereas the median maybe uses two, and that's vendors fairly narrowly defined as LLM providers and maybe some AI infrastructure companies.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 26:17 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Supported
Top AI Spenders Dedicate Only 2% Of Non-Payroll Budgets To AI
“For the top quartile of firms that are spending on AI, top 25%, it's only about two percent of business spend excluding payroll. You'd be at one percent if you were to include payroll.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 18:12 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Partly supported
Roy: Ramp data shows Codex closing gap with Claude Code
“Well, certainly there's been like ramp data, but around Codex starting to close the gap again with Claude Code.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 13:52 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
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Kantrowitz: Ramp data shows spending on Anthropic increased despite Pentagon headlines
“But actually, the data from ramp shows that spending actually increased to anthropic models.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 5:52 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
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Over Half Of Ramp Businesses Now Pay For AI Services
“54% of firms are using AI in some way, or at least paying for it.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 22:30 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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AI Vendor Renewal Rates Increase Year-Over-Year For Advanced Adopters
“And if anything, in our data set, we see that renewal rates increase year over year with firms that are more advanced. So they're more likely to stick to the vendors that they've been using as opposed to, you know, switch so frequently.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 28:19 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Supported
AI Spend Is The Fastest Growing Category In Ramp's Dataset
“AI spend is the fastest growing spend category we've ever observed in our data set.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 17:25 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Assertion Partly supported
Enterprise Spend On AI Tokens Surged 15x Over 16 Months
“Since January, 20, 25 through May, 2026, so last month per business spend on AI tokens is up 15 X. And that's amongst firms that were already spending on AI.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 17:50 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Opinion
Roy: Ramp data skews toward startups, not the aggregate broader economy
“Their data is going to be heavily skewed in whatever the coolest new, so it'll show momentum, but, like, in terms of showing actual, like, aggregate impact in the economy, most large companies are not using ramp, like, I can't imagine especially more kind of, …”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 27:36 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Ramp data shows 5% surge in Saturday corporate meal spending in SF
“This guy Ara from Ramp looked at the data again and saw a bump of ordering from restaurants delivery and takeout from employees at San Francisco based businesses occurring on Saturdays. So it's basically a five percent bump on Saturdays. He says it's new. Ther…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 48:44 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Assertion Supported
Ramp data shows business AI adoption rose to 44.5% in August 2025
“Business AI adoption rose to 44.5% in August, 2025 up from 43.3%. OpenAI led all companies in growth with a 1.5 increase in businesses subscribed to OpenAI models and tools.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 26:16 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
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