# Few people pay for AI, but those who do spend big

**Published:** October 10, 2026
**Author:** Jonathan Kemper
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/few-people-pay-for-ai-but-those-who-do-spend-big

Andreessen Horowitz tracks actual US consumer spending for the first time in its latest Top 100 AI list. Nearly half of US consumers use AI, but only 4.5 percent pay for a subscription. The top one percent of payers spend about $900 a month, mostly on professional tools for…

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