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# Software engineering and manufacturing led reported cost savings from analytical AI in 2024, at 56% each
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/analytical-ai-cost-savings-by-function/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:14:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:43.000Z
- Description: 56% of McKinsey survey respondents reported cost decreases from analytical AI in software engineering, and 56% in manufacturing. Knowledge management was lowest, at 44%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Adoption, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-adoption

56%

of respondents reported cost decreases from analytical AI in software engineering, as in manufacturing (knowledge management: 44%)

Reported cost decrease

Software engineering56%

Manufacturing56%

Knowledge management44%

## What the chart shows

In McKinsey’s survey data for 2024, 56% of respondents reported that analytical AI had decreased costs in software engineering, and the same share in manufacturing. IT followed at 54% and strategy and corporate finance at 53%; knowledge management was lowest at 44%.

Most reported savings were small: in software engineering, 35% of respondents saw costs fall by less than 10% and 6% by 20% or more. On the revenue side, marketing and sales led, with 67% of respondents reporting increases from analytical AI.

## Key numbers

| Measure                                          | Value |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ----- |
| Software engineering                             | 56%   |
| Manufacturing                                    | 56%   |
| IT                                               | 54%   |
| Knowledge management                             | 44%   |
| Software engineering, cost down by less than 10% | 35%   |
| Marketing and sales, revenue increase            | 67%   |

## How to read it

- Analytical AI is McKinsey’s term for AI other than generative AI. Shares are of survey respondents, not of companies.
- The data file dates these responses 2024; the report’s chart title says 2025\. We use the data’s year.
- Each bar adds three bands (cost down by less than 10%, 10–19%, and 20% or more); the bands can differ from the total by a point because of rounding.
- The data also has revenue increases for seven functions; they are in the CSV but not drawn.

**Source:** [McKinsey & Company Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#mckinsey-state-of-ai), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.3.4: *Cost decrease and revenue increase from analytical AI use by function, 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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