ChatGPT Statistics 2026: Users, Revenue and Plan Prices

More than 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT every week, according to OpenAI's GPT-6 announcement of October 7, 2026. That is up from more than 800 million weekly users in November 2025. OpenAI also reported more than 50 million consumer subscribers and revenue of $2 billion a month in early 2026, and its plans run from free to $500 a month.

Every figure on this page comes from an OpenAI announcement or help page, linked and dated where it appears. OpenAI is a private company, so these are its own reported numbers, not audited filings, and most are floors ("more than"). Toolradar data: on Toolradar, the software directory we run, ChatGPT is listed as an alternative to 114 other tools and ranks #3 most compared of the 290 AI assistants with 20 or more compare-page visits, as of October 2026 (ChatGPT on Toolradar).

ChatGPT key statistics at a glance

Statistic	Figure	Date reported	Source
Weekly users	More than 1.2 billion	October 7, 2026	GPT-6 for everyone
Consumer subscribers	More than 50 million	February 27, 2026	Scaling AI for everyone
Revenue	$2 billion per month	March 31, 2026	Accelerating the next phase of AI
Enterprise share of revenue	More than 40%	March 31, 2026	Same post
ChatGPT Ads run rate	$1 billion a year, under 200 days after launch	August 31, 2026	ChatGPT ads post
Paying business users	More than 9 million	February 27, 2026	Scaling AI for everyone
Business customers	More than 1 million	November 5, 2025	1 million business customers
Codex weekly users	3 million	April 8, 2026	The next phase of enterprise AI
Cheapest paid plan	Go, $8 a month	Read October 21, 2026	ChatGPT pricing

Read the table as a set of snapshots, not one dashboard. OpenAI publishes each figure in a different post on a different date, so the subscriber count and the revenue figure describe early 2026, while the user count is from October.

How many people use ChatGPT?

ChatGPT's weekly audience grew by about half in the eleven months to October 2026. The figure is weekly, not monthly: OpenAI counts people who use ChatGPT at least once in a seven-day window, which is a stricter measure than the monthly actives most apps report.

Date	Weekly users reported by OpenAI	Post
September 15, 2025	700 million	How people are using ChatGPT
November 5, 2025	More than 800 million	1 million business customers
February 27, 2026	More than 900 million	Scaling AI for everyone
August 31, 2026	More than 1 billion	ChatGPT ads post
September 29, 2026	1.2 billion	DevDay 2026 recap
October 7, 2026	More than 1.2 billion	GPT-6 for everyone

Between those two OpenAI posts, ChatGPT added roughly 400 million weekly users in eleven months, or about 36 million a month on average. That is our arithmetic on OpenAI's rounded floors, so treat it as a lower-bound pace rather than a precise rate.

The growth did not slow as the base got bigger. The count moved from more than 900 million in February to more than 1 billion by the end of August, and OpenAI was citing the current figure by its DevDay event on September 29. For a buyer, the point is simple: whatever ChatGPT changes in its plans reaches more than a billion people within a week.

How much money does ChatGPT make?

OpenAI said on March 31, 2026 that it was generating $2 billion in revenue per month. Multiplied by twelve, that is a $24 billion annual pace, our arithmetic and not a figure OpenAI printed. The same post traces the climb: $1 billion of revenue within a year of launching ChatGPT, then $1 billion per quarter by the end of 2024.

These revenue figures cover OpenAI as a whole, including the API, not ChatGPT alone. OpenAI does not split out ChatGPT revenue in these posts, so any "ChatGPT revenue" number you see elsewhere is an estimate.

Three signals show where the money comes from:

• Enterprise is catching up. Enterprise made up more than 40% of revenue in March 2026, and OpenAI said it was on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026.
• Advertising is new and already large. ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days, with tens of thousands of advertisers, according to OpenAI's August 31, 2026 post.
• Subscriptions still anchor consumer revenue. The subscriber count OpenAI reported in February held in its March post too, and OpenAI said January and February were on track to be its largest months for new subscribers.

The money behind the product is just as large. OpenAI announced $110 billion of new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation in February 2026, then closed a round of $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31.

How many ChatGPT users pay?

Roughly 1 in 18 weekly users paid for a consumer plan in early 2026, based on OpenAI's figures of more than 50 million subscribers and more than 900 million weekly users, both reported on February 27, 2026. That is a paid share of about 5.6%, our arithmetic, and both inputs are floors.

The business side adds another layer. OpenAI counted more than 9 million paying business users in February 2026 and more than 1 million business customers in November 2025, a count that includes every organization paying for ChatGPT for work or for the API. Those seats sit on top of the consumer subscriber figure.

What people use ChatGPT for

OpenAI's own usage study, published September 15, 2025 with a Harvard economist, analyzed 1.5 million conversations when ChatGPT had 700 million weekly users. It is still the most detailed breakdown OpenAI has published.

Use type	Share of messages	What it covers
Asking	49%	Questions where ChatGPT acts as an advisor
Doing	40%	Drafting, planning and programming tasks
Expressing	11%	Reflection, exploration and play

About 30% of consumer usage was work-related and about 70% was not, with both growing. The same study found the gender gap had closed: the share of users with typically feminine names rose from 37% in January 2024 to 52% by July 2025.

For anyone choosing a plan, this split matters more than the headline user count. Most use is advice and drafting, which the free and Go plans cover; the higher tiers mostly sell more reasoning, longer agent sessions and higher limits. Our how to use ChatGPT guide covers the everyday workflows.

ChatGPT plan prices in 2026

ChatGPT costs $0 on Free, $8 a month on Go, $20 on Plus and $100 to $500 on Pro, read on OpenAI's pricing page and help center on October 21, 2026. Go and Plus bill monthly; Pro bills monthly only, with no annual option.

Plan	Monthly price	A year at that price, our arithmetic	Notes
Free	$0	$0	GPT-6 Luna; ad-supported
Go	$8	$96	More messages, uploads, images and memory than Free; may include ads
Plus	$20	$240	Adds GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, projects, tasks and custom GPTs
Pro 100	$100	$1,200	Lowest of the three Pro usage tiers
Pro 200	$200	$2,400	Middle Pro usage tier
Pro 500	$500	$6,000	Adds Ultrafast GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol
Business Standard seat	$25 monthly or $20 billed annually	$300 or $240 per seat	Minimum of 2 seats
Business Premium seat	$125 monthly or $100 billed annually	$1,500 or $1,200 per seat	5x the usage of a Standard seat
Enterprise	Contact sales	Not published	Annual plans

Sources: ChatGPT pricing, About ChatGPT Pro tiers and ChatGPT Business overview.

Annual billing saves money only on Business. A Standard seat costs $60 less per year on the annual plan, and a Premium seat $300 less, by our arithmetic. For a full breakdown of each tier, read our ChatGPT pricing guide, and for what moved during the year, our ChatGPT plan changes in 2026 tracker. The AI subscription prices 2026 index compares ChatGPT's tiers with Claude, Gemini and the rest.

For daily notes on plan and model changes like these, AIpresso covers them in a short brief at aipresso.com.

Codex and the developer side

ChatGPT's coding agent grew faster than ChatGPT itself in early 2026. OpenAI reported 1.6 million weekly Codex users on February 27, more than 2 million on March 31, and 3 million on April 8, 2026. The March post also said OpenAI's APIs processed more than 15 billion tokens per minute.

For developers, the API is priced separately from ChatGPT plans. Our LLM API prices 2026 page compares the per-token rates.

What these numbers do not tell you

Three cautions keep these statistics honest:

• Most figures are floors. "More than" a round number can hide tens of millions of users either way, so a growth rate computed from them is approximate.
• Revenue is company-wide. The monthly revenue figure includes the API and enterprise deals, not consumer ChatGPT alone.
• Dates differ by figure. No single OpenAI post reports users, subscribers and revenue together for the same month, so a ratio such as the paid share mixes figures that OpenAI happened to publish on the same day.

If you are comparing ChatGPT with rivals on reach or price, read our ChatGPT review, ChatGPT alternatives, Claude vs ChatGPT and Gemini vs ChatGPT. For category-wide figures, see our AI tools statistics.

How we compiled these statistics

We read OpenAI's announcements from September 15, 2025 to October 7, 2026, its ChatGPT pricing page, and two OpenAI help center articles on October 21, 2026. Each figure is quoted as OpenAI worded it, with the date of the post. Growth rates, annual plan costs and the paid share are our arithmetic on those figures and are labeled as such. We did not use third-party traffic estimates or analyst revenue models.

FAQ

How many people use ChatGPT in 2026?

More than 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI's October 7, 2026 announcement of GPT-6 for all users. OpenAI had reported more than 800 million weekly users in November 2025 and more than 900 million in February 2026.

How many paying subscribers does ChatGPT have?

OpenAI reported more than 50 million consumer subscribers on February 27, 2026, and repeated the figure on March 31. Separately, it counted more than 9 million paying business users in February 2026.

How much revenue does OpenAI make from ChatGPT?

OpenAI said on March 31, 2026 that it generates $2 billion in revenue per month, a $24 billion annual pace by our arithmetic. That figure covers all of OpenAI, including the API and enterprise, and OpenAI does not report ChatGPT revenue on its own.

What is the cheapest ChatGPT plan?

Free costs nothing and runs GPT-6 Luna with ads. The cheapest paid plan is Go at $8 a month, then Plus at $20, read on OpenAI's pricing page on October 21, 2026.

How much does ChatGPT Pro cost?

Pro comes in three monthly tiers: Pro 100 at $100, Pro 200 at $200 and Pro 500 at $500, which adds Ultrafast models. OpenAI's help center says Pro is billed monthly only.

What do people use ChatGPT for most?

In OpenAI's September 2025 study of 1.5 million conversations, 49% of messages were "Asking" (seeking advice or information), 40% were "Doing" (drafting, planning, coding) and 11% were "Expressing". About 30% of consumer use was work-related.

Cite this: AIpresso, "ChatGPT Statistics 2026: Users, Revenue and Plan Prices", November 2026.

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