OpenAI

Updated Sep 20, 2026
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77%
18% YoY
#2

Summary

  • OpenAI ranks #2 within the Foundational LLMs category, maintaining its position month-over-month.
  • As of September 2026, 77% of organizations who have a vendor in the Foundational LLMs category use OpenAI: down 18 percentage points from last year.
  • OpenAI has the highest adoption among mid-market companies (84%), compared to enterprise (83%), small-to-medium businesses (75%), and micro-SMB (71%).
  • OpenAI key capabilities include large language model APIs, multimodal interfaces, and developer-focused integrations, supporting text generation, image processing, and code completion at enterprise scale.

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Key stats

77%
18% YoY
Mid-Market, 44%
39%
31%
#2
#2

Adoption Rates by company size

Company sizeAdoption rate
SMB75%
Mid-market84%
Enterprise83%

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company developing advanced models like GPT and DALL-E. It aims to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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About this data

These insights come from Ramp’s procurement and renewal data, built on real-world transactions observed across our platform. Figures represent aggregated observations from Ramp Procurement and Renewals activity.

DateNew adopter shareCompetitor switch rateDominant FTE segmentAdoption rate (Enterprise)Adoption rate (Mid-Market)Adoption rate (SMB)
Aug 202643%32%Mid-Market, 44%84%85%77%
Jul 202642%31%Mid-Market, 44%85%86%77%
Jun 202641%29%Mid-Market, 45%86%87%79%
May 202641%28%Mid-Market, 45%87%88%80%
Apr 202639%27%Mid-Market, 45%89%89%82%
Mar 202638%27%Mid-Market, 45%91%91%85%
Feb 202650%28%Mid-Market, 45%93%94%89%
Jan 202662%30%Mid-Market, 45%96%96%92%
Dec 202577%30%Mid-Market, 45%96%96%94%
Nov 202579%30%Mid-Market, 45%96%96%94%
Oct 202581%29%Mid-Market, 46%97%96%95%
Sep 202586%27%Mid-Market, 46%96%97%95%
Aug 202586%26%Mid-Market, 46%97%97%95%
Jul 202584%14%Mid-Market, 46%96%97%95%
Jun 202588%16%Mid-Market, 46%97%98%96%
May 202590%16%Mid-Market, 46%96%98%96%
Apr 202591%16%Mid-Market, 46%96%98%96%
Mar 202585%15%Mid-Market, 46%96%98%95%
Feb 202588%17%Mid-Market, 46%98%98%96%
Jan 202588%17%Mid-Market, 45%98%98%96%
Dec 202490%18%Mid-Market, 45%97%98%96%
Nov 202487%17%Mid-Market, 45%97%98%96%
Oct 202487%18%Mid-Market, 44%98%98%97%
Sep 202491%22%Mid-Market, 44%99%99%97%

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