This post was last updated on June, 15, 2025.
OpenAI's ChatGPT has become an important part of people's lives, and as of May/June 2025, it has 177.42 million daily visitors (based on web traffic data estimates), with 800 million weekly active users. People rely a lot on ChatGPT, and it handles over 1 billion queries every day. With the rapid growth, it is expected that OpenAI will earn up to $11 billion in revenue by the end of 2025.
Total Number of ChatGPT users
In February 2025, ChatGPT had 400 million weekly users, which doubled to 800 million weekly users in March 2025. Open AI’s CEO, Sam Altman, also said during TED 2025 that ChatGPT’s user base doubled in just a few weeks.In comparison, ChatGPT had just 50 million active weekly users in January 2023, which jumped to 100 million in August 2023. By October 2024, ChatGPT had 250 million weekly active users, which reached 300 million in December 2024.
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) of ChatGPT
In January 2023, ChatGPT had 100 million monthly active users, and it reached 173 million monthly active users in April 2023. In 2024, ChatGPT reached 180.5 million monthly active users. It reached 400 million weekly active users as of February 2025. According to a court document, revealed by Google, ChatGPT had approximately 600 million monthly active users in March. It should also be kept in mind that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users just after two months of its launch, showing how quickly people started using it. Based on Similarweb data, ChatGPT ranks as the 6th most visited website globally in April/May 2025, highlighting its massive user base.Daily Active Users (DAUs) of ChatGPT
In May 2025, ChatGPT had an average of 177.42 million daily visitors. It's important to note that this visit count, calculated by Digital Information World using Similarweb’s May 2025 data (still valid for June 2025), which reflects total visits, not unique users. As one person may visit multiple times, so actual active daily user numbers may vary. The daily average of 177.42 million visits was derived by dividing 5.5 billion monthly visits by 30 days. Most people use ChatGPT regularly, so its daily active users typically range from 148 to 200 million, based on data from tools like SEMRush. If we look at Wikipedia’s 3.7 billion visits in April 2025, which breaks down to about 123 million daily visitors, ChatGPT’s 177.42 million figure clearly put it ahead by a wide margin.How Many Queries Does ChatGPT Receive per Day?
According to data from OpenAI, ChatGPT handles over 1 billion queries every day. People heavily rely on ChatGPT for their questions, daily tasks, and for conversations.Within a week of its launch, ChatGPT was already handling 10 million queries every day, and its usage has grown rapidly, as well as its user base.
OpenAI has also launched ChatGPT Pro on December 5th, which is priced at $200 a month and is best for engineers, researchers, and power users who need advanced AI usage daily.
User Demographics of ChatGPT
Gender:
There is a balanced gender split among users of ChatGPT, with 54% of its users being male and 46% of them being female, as per SimilarWeb insights.Age:
Most of the users of ChatGPT are young adults and professionals. Around 55% of users of ChatGPT are between the ages of 18-34. Users aged 34–54 make up 32% of ChatGPT's total user base, while those aged 55 and older account for just 13%.ChatGPT Users by Country
Even though ChatGPT is used globally, some countries have higher numbers of its users. The US has the highest number of ChatGPT users (18.11%), followed by India (7.99%) and Brazil (5.4%).As per Similarweb, the UK has 3.39% of the total ChatGPT users, while Republic of Korea has 3.94% of users. 61.16% of the ChatGPT users are from different other countries.
ChatGPT Traffic Stats
As per SimilerWeb data, ChatGPT web traffic has grown a lot, especially in 2025. In April 2025, ChatGPT’s website got 5.1 billion visits, which is a 30.77% increase from 3.9 billion in February 2025. This shows that the engagement with ChatGPT is rising. Between late 2023 to early 2025, traffic on ChatGPT was steady, and jumped between September and October 2024 from 3.1 billion to 3.7 billion. In April 2024, there were 1.81 billion monthly visits on ChatGPT, and it reached 5.5 billion monthly visits in May 2025.| Month | Monthly ChatGPT Website Visits |
|---|---|
| May 2025 | 5.5 billion |
| April 2025 | 5.1 billion |
| March 2025 | 4.5 billion |
| February 2025 | 3.9 billion |
| January 2025 | 3.8 billion |
| December 2024 | 3.7 billion |
| November 2024 | 3.8 billion |
| October 2024 | 3.7 billion |
| September 2024 | 3.1 billion |
| August 2024 | 2.6 billion |
| July 2024 | 2.44 billion |
| April 2024 | 1.81 billion |
| January 2024 | 1.6 billion |
| December 2023 | 1.6 billion |
| November 2023 | 1.7 billion |
| February 2023 | 1 billion |
| January 2023 | 616 million |
| December 2022 | 266 million |
| November 2022 | 152.7 million |
Revenue of ChatGPT
OpenAI, which is the parent company of ChatGPT, is getting a lot of revenue from it. According to the CFO of OpenAI, Sarah Friar, ChatGPT is going to reach $11 billion in revenue in 2025. In 2022, ChatGPT had less than $10 million in revenue, and it reached $1 billion in 2023. In 2024, the revenue of ChatGPT was $3.7 billion. That means OpenAI’s revenue reached around $10 billion within three years, which shows how much demand there is for ChatGPT globally.ChatGPT Plus Users
There are around 11 million users of ChatGPT who are subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, with around 1 million users subscribed to team and business plans, which give them more advanced features.Average User Session
On average, users spend 13 minutes 38 seconds per session on ChatGPT, while 14 minutes 14 seconds was the longest session time recorded in October 2023.ChatGPT Users as Compared to Other Platforms
| Platform | Time To Reach 100 Million Users | Industry |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram Threads | 2 days | Social Media |
| ChatGPT | 2 months | Chatbot |
| TikTok | 9 months | Social Media |
| Youtube | 18 months | Social Media |
| 30 months | Social Media | |
| 54 months | Social Media | |
| 60 months | Social Media | |
| Spotify | 132 months | Music Streaming |
| Netflix | 216 months | Entertainment |
ChatGPT has grown faster than any other major tech platform, reaching 100 million users in just 2 months. Only Instagram Threads was faster than ChatGPT in reaching that milestone in just 2 days, but its usage has dropped while ChatGPT’s usage continues to increase.
The third fastest app to reach 100 million users was TikTok, and did so in 9 months, while YouTube reached 100 million users in 18 months after its launch
ChatGPT also reached 1 million users in just 5 days, the fastest to do so after Instagram Threads, which did so in just an hour. Instagram reached 1 million users in 2 months, while Spotify reached this milestone in just 5 months.
| Platform | Year of Launch | Time To Reach 1 Million Users |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram Threads | 2023 | 1 hour |
| ChatGPT | 2022 | 5 days |
| Instagram. | 2010 | 2 months |
| Spotify | 2008 | 5 months |
| Dropbox | 2008 | 7 months |
| 2004 | 10 months | |
| FourSquare | 2009 | 13 months |
| 2006 | 2 years | |
| Airbnb | 2008 | 2.5 years |
| Kickstarter | 2009 | 2.5 years |
| Netflix | 1999 | 3.5 years |
Interesting Facts:
As per SimilarWeb data 61.05% of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTube, which means from all the social media platforms YouTube viewers are the largest referral source of its user base, likely driven by content creators, tutorials, and AI-related videos linking to the platform.
According to SimilarWeb data, the United States was the biggest market for ChatGPT in May 2025, accounting for approximately 901.45 million of the 5.5 billion visits, or 16.39% of the total traffic.
According to SimilarWeb data, the United States was the biggest market for ChatGPT in May 2025, accounting for approximately 901.45 million of the 5.5 billion visits, or 16.39% of the total traffic.
Data from SEMrush suggests that many users still either mispronounce or mistype the popular term "ChatGPT," with some searching for "Chat GBT" (673,000 monthly searches as of April 2025) and "Chat Got" (246,000 searches), instead of ChatGPT.
Market Share of ChatGPT
| Description | AI Search Market Share | Quarterly User Growth (Est.) |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT (excluding Copilot) | GPT-3.5, GPT-4 | 59.90% |
| Microsoft Copilot | GPT-4 | 14.30% |
| Google Gemini | Gemini | 13.40% |
| Perplexity | Mistral 7B, Llama 2 | 6.30% |
| Claude AI | Claude 3 | 3.30% |
| Grok | Grok 2, Grok 3 | 0.70% |
| Deepseek | DeepSeek V3 | 0.70% |
| Komo | Not publicly disclosed | 0.60% |
| Brave Leo AI | Mixtral 8x7B | 0.30% |
| Andi | Not publicly disclosed | 0.20% |
ChatGPT leads in market share among the generative AI chatbot space, with 59.2% of the total AI search market. It is followed by a 14.4% share of Microsoft CoPilot and a 13.5% share of Google Gemini.
ChatGPT App Statistics
Overall, ChatGPT has 34 million average monthly downloads and is rated 4.5 stars on Google Play and 4.9 stars on the Apple App Store. On the App Store, ChatGPT is also ranked number 1 in productivity apps.In January 2025, ChatGPT got 37 million new downloads, a 4.02% decrease from 38.6 million in December 2024. The highest number of downloads of ChatGPT recorded was in April 2025 (52 million).
Conclusion:
ChatGPT is seeing rapid growth, with users increasing monthly in large amounts. It is because ChatGPT offers the best AI technology and responses, and gives users a platform for different purposes.Read next:
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