en.Wedoany.com Reported - A recent survey report released by US enterprise spending management platform Ramp shows that Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has topped the platform's software trend chart for the first time, becoming the fastest-growing software provider. This shift reflects growing dissatisfaction among enterprise customers with the rising costs of US AI models.
US enterprises are experiencing the aftershocks of the AI boom. As cumulative investments by companies in the AI field surpass $1 trillion, model inference costs continue to skyrocket, yet the anticipated cost reductions and efficiency gains have yet to materialize. An increasing number of companies are seeking low-cost alternatives.
Recent disclosed cases show that one enterprise paid $500 million for Claude in a single month, while ride-hailing giant Uber exhausted its entire annual token budget within four months this year. Even tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft are pausing or scaling back subscriptions for internal AI tools.
Just as US enterprises grapple with hefty bills, DeepSeek announced a permanent 75% price cut for its application programming interface, while MiniMax pushed model usage costs to a new industry low. Cost-effectiveness is rapidly becoming the primary weapon for Chinese large models to enter the global enterprise market.
Ramp Chief Economist Ara Kharazian stated that this may be the clearest signal yet that US enterprises are actively seeking low-cost alternatives to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Analyzing transaction data from the platform, he noted that some enterprises have already started directly using cheaper Chinese large models. These companies are not deploying DeepSeek's open-source models themselves but are paying DeepSeek directly for its hosted services.
Looking back at early 2025, DeepSeek's R1 model sparked global attention. Its mobile app not only topped the free chart on Apple's App Store in China but also surpassed ChatGPT to become the most downloaded app in the US. However, unlike app store rankings that primarily reflect individual user popularity, Ramp's data more accurately reflects the enterprise market. Platform statistics show that DeepSeek's adoption rate among US enterprises once reached 0.3% in 2025, before falling back to 0.1% and remaining there until April 2026.
Ramp believes that one of the most direct reasons for DeepSeek's renewed attention from enterprise clients is the intensifying cost pressure within the US AI ecosystem. The platform stated that US companies are becoming increasingly cautious in AI spending, trying more open-source models or shifting to cheaper products than those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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