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AI spend grew 4.8x among UAE companies using Alaan
In twelve months, AI spending among existing Alaan customers grew 4.8x, and the share of companies paying for AI went from one in five to one in three. This report analyses a year of anonymized transactions from over 3,000 UAE companies using Alaan to show who is adopting AI, who they pay, and what happens next.
What you'll learn
Learn which company sizes are adopting AI fastest, how spending is splitting between the major providers, and why most companies building their own software with AI are not tech companies.
Key Insights
One in three UAE companies now pay for at least one AI tool, up from one in five a year ago.
Adoption peaks at companies with 51 to 200 employees, at 44 percent, rather than at the largest enterprises where procurement moves slower.
Claude took 59.5 percent of AI spend by July 2026. ChatGPT did not shrink, its spend grew 154 percent and its customer count doubled.
Eight in ten companies using AI app builders are not tech firms. They are real estate offices, traders, agencies and manufacturers building internal tools.
