Per-employee SI spending at the most active companies fell almost 10% in August
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Publication time restored from the build log. . Updated: .
SI is getting cheaper fast, and companies pay less for the same thing. For users that is progress, but those building data centers on the expectation of rising spending have something to think about.
According to the payments company Ramp, which sees the spending of 70 thousand businesses, per-employee spending among the 1% most active SI users fell almost 10%, to $7,205, while the share of companies paying for SI rose over the month by just 0.4 percentage points, to 56%. The average price of a million tokens fell from $1.15 in March to $0.68. A Ramp economist attributes the decline to summer vacations and the price war between OpenAI and Anthropic: companies increasingly choose cheaper older models.
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