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ChatGPT closed out its third year as the fastest-growing consumer application in history, reaching more than 1 billion weekly active users by August 2026 — about one in eight people on Earth. Below are the verified 2026 figures on ChatGPT’s users, revenue, downloads, enterprise adoption and traffic, each tied to a named primary source.
Weekly active users: 900M+ → 1B+. Previous value more than 900 million (OpenAI, 27 Feb 2026). New value more than 1 billion (OpenAI, 31 Aug 2026). At DevDay on 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI cited “1.2B weekly users”, described as collective, so it may include products beyond ChatGPT; we report it but do not use it as the ChatGPT figure. Why: the page carried February’s figure as current. MEDIUM: from consistent reporting of OpenAI’s statements; OpenAI’s pages could not be opened directly.
Previously, 1 Oct 2026 — weekly active users: 800M → 900M+. Previous value 800 million (OpenAI/Altman, DevDay, Oct 2025). New value more than 900 million, per OpenAI’s current disclosure, alongside 50M+ paying consumer subscribers. Why: this page carried the October 2025 milestone as though it were the current figure. The 800M number was never wrong — it is retained above as the Oct 2025 datapoint in the series — but it was seven weeks stale as a statement of today.
Also clarified on 1 Oct: the ~1 billion figure then in circulation was monthly active app users (May 2026), not weekly. OpenAI’s weekly figure has since passed 1 billion as well; the two metrics are still routinely conflated. See our report on why AI user league tables disagree.
How many people use ChatGPT?
OpenAI reported more than 1 billion weekly active users on 31 August 2026, alongside more than 50 million paying consumer subscribers (last disclosed in February 2026). That caps a steep climb: 400 million in February 2025, roughly 700 million in July 2025, 800 million in October 2025 when Sam Altman announced the milestone at DevDay (TechCrunch, Oct 2025), more than 900 million in February 2026 and more than 1 billion by August 2026. At DevDay on 29 September 2026 OpenAI cited “1.2 billion weekly users”, described as collective, so it may count products beyond ChatGPT. A separate figure of roughly 1 billion monthly active app users was reported in May 2026 — that is a different metric, not a contradiction, and the two are frequently conflated in published comparisons. Engagement has scaled with the audience: by mid-2025 users were sending about 2.5 billion prompts every day — close to 29,000 per second (TechCrunch, Jul 2025). OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI report reiterated the 800 million figure at the time, framing rapid consumer adoption as a flywheel that pulls AI into workplaces. The company has publicly targeted 1 billion weekly users — a threshold it has not yet announced reaching.
ChatGPT revenue and paid subscribers
OpenAI’s annualized revenue run-rate reached roughly $20 billion by the end of 2025 and climbed to about $25 billion in early 2026 (The Information, reported via Yahoo Finance, 2026). Because OpenAI passed $1 billion in annualized revenue in mid-2023, its run-rate has expanded close to 20-fold in under three years. The bulk of that revenue comes from ChatGPT subscriptions across four tiers — Plus ($20/mo), Team ($25/user/mo), Pro ($200/mo) and Enterprise (custom). Reported figures put paid ChatGPT subscribers north of 20 million (Business of Apps, 2026), with premium and business plans driving the fastest growth in average revenue per user.
App downloads and web traffic
ChatGPT was the second most downloaded app worldwide in 2025, trailing only TikTok, and in July 2025 it became the fastest app ever to cross 1 billion cumulative downloads across the App Store and Google Play (Sensor Tower, 2026). It logged about 470 million installs in the first half of 2025 alone — roughly 3.7x its nearest competitor — while total time spent in the app surged more than 400% year over year. On the web, chatgpt.com recorded 5.73 billion visits in March 2026, up 7.08% month over month, ranking as a top-ten global website and the #1 property in the AI chatbots category (Similarweb, Mar 2026).
Enterprise adoption
OpenAI surpassed 1 million business customers in November 2025, which it calls the fastest-growing business platform in history (OpenAI, Nov 2025). The company now serves more than 7 million ChatGPT workplace seats, with Enterprise seats up roughly 9x year over year (OpenAI, State of Enterprise AI, 2025). Weekly enterprise message volume has grown about 8x since November 2024, and API reasoning-token consumption per organization rose more than 300x year over year — a sign companies are deploying ChatGPT for heavier automated workloads, not just one-off queries. Adoption is heaviest in professional services, finance and technology.
Who uses ChatGPT: demographics
ChatGPT’s user base skews young and has moved toward gender parity. As of 2026 the audience is roughly 54% male and 46% female, a sharp shift from the tool’s early, heavily male adoption (Similarweb data). Adults aged 25-34 are the single largest cohort. In the United States, 58% of adults aged 18-29 have used ChatGPT, versus only about 10% of those 65 and older — a near 6x generational gap (Backlinko, citing Pew Research, 2026). Backlinko’s analysis also finds usage concentrated among students and knowledge workers, with writing, coding and research leading the use-case mix.
ChatGPT usage by country
The United States supplies the largest share of ChatGPT web traffic at about 18.5%, followed by India at roughly 9.8% (Similarweb, 2026). Together the two markets account for well over a quarter of global traffic. India is the fastest-growing major market: after the early-2026 launch of the lower-priced ChatGPT Go tier, OpenAI reported the country reached about 100 million weekly active users, underscoring how localized pricing is expanding access in emerging markets. Desktop still accounts for the majority of chatgpt.com sessions, though mobile’s share is rising quickly in high-growth markets such as India and Brazil.
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Frequently asked questions
How many people use ChatGPT in 2026?
OpenAI reported more than 1 billion weekly active users on 31 August 2026, up from more than 900 million in February 2026 and 800 million in October 2025. It last disclosed more than 50 million paying consumer subscribers in February 2026. At DevDay on 29 September 2026 OpenAI cited 1.2 billion weekly users across its products, a figure that may include more than ChatGPT. A separate figure of roughly 1 billion monthly active app users (Sensor Tower, May 2026) is a different metric.
How much revenue does ChatGPT generate?
OpenAI’s annualized revenue run-rate was about $20 billion at the end of 2025, rising to roughly $25 billion in early 2026 (The Information).
How many businesses use ChatGPT?
OpenAI surpassed 1 million business customers and more than 7 million ChatGPT workplace seats as of late 2025.
Sources
- OpenAI / Sam Altman, “ChatGPT hits 800M weekly active users,” TechCrunch, Oct 6 2025 — https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-has-hit-800m-weekly-active-users/
- OpenAI, “The State of Enterprise AI,” 2025 — https://openai.com/index/the-state-of-enterprise-ai-2025-report/
- OpenAI, “1 million business customers,” Nov 2025 — https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work/
- TechCrunch, “ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day,” Jul 21 2025 — https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/chatgpt-users-send-2-5-billion-prompts-a-day/
- Sensor Tower, “State of Mobile / AI Apps 2025-2026” — https://sensortower.com/blog/state-of-ai-apps-report-2025
- Similarweb, “chatgpt.com Traffic Analytics,” Mar 2026 — https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/
- The Information via Yahoo Finance, “OpenAI tops $25 billion in annualized revenue,” 2026 — https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-tops-25-billion-annualized-033836274.html
- Backlinko (citing Pew Research), “ChatGPT Statistics 2026” — https://backlinko.com/chatgpt-stats
- Business of Apps, “ChatGPT Revenue and Usage Statistics (2026)” — https://www.businessofapps.com/data/chatgpt-statistics/