Enterprise AI spend jumps 5.4x to $176.8B as Anthropic takes 55% of LLM API spend
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-04
FinanceYF5 distills Menlo Ventures' fourth State of Enterprise AI report: enterprise AI deployment spend grew 5.4x in one year to $176.8B.
Enterprise LLM API share shifts:
- Anthropic: 40% → 55%
- OpenAI: 27% → 31%
- Google: 21% → 9%
Anthropic and OpenAI now hold 86% of enterprise API spend — per the report, an increasingly two-horse race.
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