AI cost per employee
Monthly attributed AI tool spend per employee across Weave customer telemetry, with public data and calculation methodology.
Reporting period: to .
Snapshot updated .
August 2026: $582.91 USD per employee.
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Average AI cost per employee is the monthly attributed AI tool spend divided by the number of employees with AI spend or engineering output in that month.
Spend comes from tool billing and usage telemetry, normalized into dollars before aggregation. The result is a blended average across organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises.
Sample and interpretation
The public aggregate snapshot does not include monthly employee or organization counts for this series.
These are aggregate observations from Weave customer telemetry, not a controlled experiment or a representative sample of every engineering team. Changes in the observed cohort and connected telemetry can affect the series. The data alone does not establish that AI caused a change in output.
For the wider measurement framework, read how to calculate AI coding ROI, including cost attribution, quality, and baseline comparisons.
Monthly data
CSV values retain the published precision.
| Month | Value |
|---|---|
| $32.08 | |
| $55.01 | |
| $79.35 | |
| $121.43 | |
| $176.29 | |
| $257.08 | |
| $433.50 | |
| $582.91 |
Cite this data
Weave. “Weave Index: AI cost per employee.” January 2026 to August 2026, snapshot September 3, 2026. https://weaveos.com/data/ai-cost-per-employee.
Source: Weave engineering analytics platform. Cite the reporting period and snapshot date when reusing a value. Downloads contain the same published aggregates shown above.