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OpenAI is an AI research organization behind the popular ChatGPT.
With its latest GPT-5 model, OpenAI remains at the forefront of the AI race, boasting over 900 million weekly active users of its chatbot as of December 2025, up from 500 million in March.
From the number of ChatGPT weekly active users to OpenAI revenue, we’ll cover the latest stats about the leading AI product on this page.
According to the latest available data, ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly active users worldwide.
The number of ChatGPT weekly active users has increased from a reported 300 million in December 2024.
Here’s a table with a number of ChatGPT weekly active users since November 2023:
Sources: Axios, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha
According to the latest data, ChatGPT has an estimated 67.7 million monthly active users in the US.
Source: eMarketer
As of June 2025, 34% of US adults claim to have ever used ChatGPT. That’s an increase from 18% in July 2023.
More than half (58%) of adults ages 18-29 in the US have ever used ChatGPT, more than any other group. Only 10% of American adults 65 years old and over have ever tried ChatGPT.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of ChatGPT adoption rate in the US by age group:
Source: Pew Research Center
According to a recent Reuters Institute survey, 22% of respondents in the US claim to use ChatGPT at least once a month. Only 7% of Americans report frequent daily use of ChatGPT.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of use frequency of ChatGPT in 6 select countries:
Source: Reuters Institute
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ChatGPT offers a paid subscription plan for $20 per month, which includes various benefits.
According to OpenAI COO (Brad Lightcap), ChatGPT has more than 10 million paying subscribers.
Analysis of credit card data shows that more than 89% and 74% of ChatGPT subscribers continued to pay for the access after 1 and 3 quarters since the first purchase, respectively.
Sources: The Information, Earnest Analytics
According to recent data, ChatGPT has over 5 million paying users across ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu offerings.
ChatGPT Enterprise user base grew from 600 thousand reported in April 2024. Back in January 2024, ChatGPT Enterprise had 150,000 users from 260 organizations.
Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC
In December 2024, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a new subscription tier for $200 per month which unlocks advanced features of OpenAI tools.
Analysis of credit card data shows that ChatGPT Pro sales already accounted for 5.8% of OpenAI consumer sales as of January 1, 2025, with the remaining 94.2% share for ChatGPT Plus.
According to OpenAI CEO (Sam Altman), ChatGPT Pro subscriptions are unprofitable for the company despite the high monthly subscription price due to high usage.
Sources: OpenAI, Earnest Analytics, X/Twitter
In November 2024, the average time spent per ChatGPT web session per user worldwide hit 12 minutes 24 seconds.
Source: Semrush
In June 2025, ChatGPT accounted for 62.5% of the market share of B2C subscription sales of AI tools. No other paid AI tool had more than 6% market share.
As of December 2025, ChatGPT accounts for 59.47% of monthly web traffic to the top 50 most used Generative AI web products.
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz, Earnest Analytics, Exploding Topics, Menlo Ventures
Further reading: 5 LLM Visibility Tools to Track Your Brand in AI Search
OpenAI’s monthly revenue reached $1 billion in October 2025.
OpenAI expects to generate a total of $12 billion in annual sales in 2025.
Sources: The Information
OpenAI has raised a total of $57.9 billion over 9 funding rounds.
Source: Tracxn
OpenAI is currently valued at $500 billion. That’s up from the reported $86 billion in February 2024.
Sources: Bloomberg, OpenAI, CNBC
OpenAI currently has more than 3,700 employees worldwide.
OpenAI has open roles at 14 office locations: San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, London, Dublin, Tokyo, Washington DC, Sydney, Paris, Singapore, Munich, Seoul, Delhi, and Sao Paulo.
Sources: Fortune, OpenAI
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