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AI Agents Statistics (2026)

Agents are where AI stops answering questions and starts doing work. The numbers below show both sides of that story. Adoption is surging, real revenue is flowing, and a lot of projects will still fail on weak foundations. Every stat here is sourced, dated, and linked to the original reporting.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

Market forecasts

Where analysts expect agent spending and deployment to land, and the failure rate to plan around.

$206.5B

AI agent software spending is forecast to hit $206.5 billion in 2026 and jump 82% to $376.3 billion in 2027.

Source: Gartner

Last verified: May 25, 2026

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40%

40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% at the start of the year.

Source: Gartner

Last verified: May 25, 2026

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$53B

Supply chain management software with agentic AI is forecast to grow from under $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion in annual spend by 2030, with enterprise adoption rising from 5% to 60%.

Source: Gartner

Last verified: April 9, 2026

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40%

Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, driven by escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls.

Source: Gartner

Last verified: May 25, 2026

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Enterprise adoption and results

What companies are actually deploying, what it earns, and how capable the agents have become.

17%

Only 17% of organisations have deployed AI agents to date, but more than 60% say they expect to within the next two years.

Source: Gartner

Last verified: May 25, 2026

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56%

Employee adoption of AI agents reached 56% of surveyed organisations in Q2 2026, up from 23% in Q1, across 2,145 senior business leaders in 20 countries.

Source: KPMG International

Last verified: June 26, 2026

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18%

The share of organisations orchestrating multiple AI agents across workflows doubled from 9% to 18% in a single quarter.

Source: KPMG International

Last verified: June 26, 2026

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$1.2B

Salesforce Agentforce reached $1.2 billion in annualized recurring revenue in Q1 FY2027, up 205% year over year.

Source: CNBC

Last verified: June 11, 2026

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4,000

More than 4,000 enterprise customers are actively using at least one Workday-built AI agent, a figure that doubled quarter over quarter, with AI annual recurring revenue approaching $500 million.

Source: CNBC

Last verified: May 24, 2026

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66.3%

AI agent success rates on the OSWorld computer-task benchmark jumped from roughly 12% in 2024 to 66.3% in 2026, approaching the human baseline of about 72%.

Source: Stanford HAI

Last verified: April 20, 2026

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26%

Organisations that have genuinely deployed AI report a 26% productivity gain in software development, 14 to 15% improvement in customer support, and a 73% increase in marketing output.

Source: Stanford HAI

Last verified: April 20, 2026

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94%

96% of organisations are already using AI agents in some capacity, yet 94% report that AI sprawl is increasing complexity, technical debt, and security risk.

Source: OutSystems / BusinessWire

Last verified: April 13, 2026

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12%

Only 12% of organisations have implemented a centralised platform to govern their AI agents.

Source: OutSystems / BusinessWire

Last verified: April 13, 2026

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