Ramp Economics Lab
Key insights and analysis of business spend and economic data from Ramp's team of economists.
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The cost of AI is decreasingIn just twelve months, the cost of tokens have dropped 75%. What changed?Apr 15
The Spring 2025 Business Spending Report is hereWe’re proud to share Ramp’s Business Spending Report. In this edition, we examine trends in AI, advertising, and general business spend.Apr 14
What we’re hearing from businesses about tariffsWe spoke to more than 30 business leaders in the construction, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail sectors about how they expect tariffs to impact their businesses.Apr 9
Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (April 2025)Vibecoding and the future of graphic designApr 2
Trends in alcohol spending: Businesses, employees cut backAlcohol spending is declining. Is this shift purely consumer-driven, or is it reshaping the American workplace too?Mar 17- Are businesses actually using DeepSeek?The Chinese artificial intelligence start-up’s new low-cost AI model triggered a selloff in U.S. tech stocks last month. But for all the commotion, DeepSeek didn’t come close to our list of trending vendors. Ramp’s latest estimate of the top AI vendors shows, as of the end of January 2025, only 0.2 percent of U.S. corporations have used DeepSeek.Mar 7