2026 State of AI Spend in Europe

Built from contract records, spend data, and negotiation outcomes across 250+ customers in Europe, spanning technology, retail, Private Equity, and adjacent sectors. It shows where AI spend duplicates across your stack this year.

See how much sits outside a formal contract, and where you're paying twice for the same feature. Right now, 93% of pure play AI tool usage has no negotiated discount or spend cap behind it.

What's inside:

  1. Why 93% of AI tool usage has no formal contract behind it, and what that's costing you.
  2. How AI aggregator platforms get billed on top of the direct model subscriptions they were supposed to replace, not instead of them.
  3. The five different ways vendors are now metering AI usage, and which ones have no spend ceiling at all.
  4. Where your stack is likely paying twice for the same AI feature, one overlap shows up in 100% of the accounts we checked.
  5. What one of Najar's procurement leads would do first at your next renewal, before AI pricing gets locked in for another year.
What's inside:

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