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16.8%
16.8% -- paid ai subscription adoption rate for OpenAI (2025-01)
In January 2025, 16.8% of U.S. businesses on Ramp had paid subscriptions to OpenAI.
- Counts only paid subscriptions and excludes free-tier usage
- Based on anonymized spend data from over 50,000 U.S. businesses on the Ramp platform
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16.8%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-01
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Sample Size
50,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ramp
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Tier B
https://bizstack.tech/anthropic-closes-the-gap-30-of-u-s-businesses-now-pay-for-claude/ ↗
Source Article
Anthropic closes the gap: 30% of U.S. businesses now pay for Claude
Twelve months ago, OpenAI had a commanding lead in paid business AI adoption. That lead is nearly gone.
Anonymized spend data from over 50,000 U.S. businesses on the Ramp platform shows that as of March 2026, 35.2% of U.S. companies pay for OpenAI versus 30.6% for Anthropic, a gap of just 4.5 percen…
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Ramp
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Ramp platform spend data; paid subscriptions only
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OpenAI: 16.8% paid ai subscription adoption rate. Source: Ramp (2025-01). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/openai-paid-adoption-jan2025
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