🗓️ 18.12.2025
ChatGPT Statistics 2025
🕒 10 min read 🧑 by Sarah Fulford-Williams
Table of Contents
ChatGPT Stats 2025
Introduction
In just a few short years, ChatGPT has gone from experimental chatbot to cultural phenomenon.
It powers countless creative projects, business workflows and everyday conversations, reflecting the world’s fascination with AI as both a productivity tool and a companion.
The numbers below demonstrate how generative AI is reshaping our relationship with technology and why ChatGPT sits at the heart of this transformation.
Quick Summary ✅
- ChatGPT, launched in late 2022, has quickly become one of the most used AI applications.
- By September 2025, ChatGPT recorded 800 million weekly active users, doubling its user base from February 2025.
- The conversational AI processes billions of messages daily and has become integral to both consumer and enterprise workflows.
Key ChatGPT Statistics 📈
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| Weekly Active Users (WAU) |
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| Monthly Visits |
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| Daily Queries |
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| ChatGPT Subscribers |
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| Enterprise Adoption |
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| Revenue |
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| Average Session Time |
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| Gender Split |
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| Age Distribution |
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| Top Countries |
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User Growth & Adoption
Rapid uptake
- Early success: ChatGPT reached 100 million users within two months of its late‑2022 launch.
- Mass adoption: The platform surpassed 400 million weekly active users by February 2025, doubling to 800 million WAU by September 2025.
- Goals: Projections suggested ChatGPT might reach 1 billion users by the end of 2025.
Engagement
- Daily sessions: ChatGPT logs 122.58 million daily users and processes 1–2 billion queries daily.
- Average session duration: Users spend approximately 7 minutes 4 seconds per session.
- Usage patterns: According to OpenAI’s research, 30% of consumer usage is work‑related, while 70% is personal; 49% of messages ask questions, 40% perform tasks (e.g., writing code), and 11% express feelings.
Demographics
- Gender:
- 54.66% male and 45.34% female users
- OpenAI’s study indicates a more balanced gender representation, with the share of female names rising from 37% in early 2024 to 52% by July 2025
- Age:
- 18–34 years: 52.99 % of users
- 35–54 years: 32.91 %.
- 55+ years: 14.11 %.
- Global distribution:
- Top five countries by traffic: United States (17.2%), India (8.27%), Brazil (5.73%), Japan (3.7%), Germany (3.39%)
- ChatGPT is available in 161 countries; 15 countries still restrict or ban access
Usage at Work
A joint OpenAI–NBER study in 2025 examined ChatGPT adoption in professional settings:
- Workforce usage: 43% of U.S. knowledge workers use AI on the job, and 28 % of all employed adults use ChatGPT for work.
- Productivity gains: Over half of users report saving three or more hours per week; knowledge workers using AI produce 40% higher‑quality work.
- Education level: 45% of workers with postgraduate degrees use ChatGPT at work, compared with 38% with a bachelor’s degree and 17% with high school or less.
- Age differences: Employees aged 18-29 are twice as likely to use ChatGPT at work compared to those over 50.
Revenue & Monetisation
- Annual revenue: OpenAI’s revenue reached $3.7 billion in 2024 and is projected to hit $10 billion annual recurring revenue by mid‑2025.
- ChatGPT Plus: The Plus subscription (US $20/month) has 10–15 million subscribers, producing hundreds of millions in recurring revenue.
- Enterprise customers: More than 1.5 million enterprises were using OpenAI’s API or ChatGPT Enterprise by February 2025.
Platform comparison
- ChatGPT is the sixth most visited website globally, with 4.61 billion monthly visits.
- In terms of average answer quality, ChatGPT responses are longer (1,686 characters) and provide more sources than typical Google responses.
✨ OOB’s Thoughts ✨
ChatGPT launched three years ago.
In five days, it reached one million users.
In two months it crossed 100 million users (a milestone that TikTok nine months).
Now, ChatGPT has 800 million weekly active users – that’s double the 400 mil in Feb 2025.
GPT‑5 came in promising better writing, coding and fewer sneaky/misleading answers. The arms race with other models like Gemini means OpenAI is continually grinding to upgrade; to be the tab you keep open, not the one-off tool you don’t need.
It’s a daily assistant for many of us, not projected to overtake Google, but big enough to threaten it, completely uproot search behaviour, and send the SEO community into crisis.
The future of ChatGPT looks like personalised chats, integrated ads for non-paying users, increased regulation, and improved capabilities to keep up with AI Mode, Nanobanana and more.
Conclusion
From a standing start in 2022, ChatGPT has become a mass‑market platform used by hundreds of millions of people each week. With strong enterprise adoption, significant subscription revenue and rapid improvements in quality and usage, ChatGPT shows no sign of slowing down. For marketers and content creators, the platform presents opportunities for GEO (generative engine optimisation), customer support automation and creative productivity.
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FAQs 📌
ChatGPT: Frequently Asked Questions
ChatGPT’s usage is massive by 2025. The AI chatbot has around 700 million weekly active users, with roughly 190 million people using it every day vertu.com. Monthly traffic is huge – over 5.7 billion visits to ChatGPT in late 2025 vertu.com. This user base is still growing; OpenAI’s data showed ChatGPT serving 800+ million users per week by the end of 2025 openai.com. Notably, ChatGPT also remains the dominant AI chatbot, accounting for about 74% of the AI chatbot market’s usage in 2025 despite new rivals emerging firstpagesage.com.
Mostly everyday queries and writing tasks. According to OpenAI, around 75% of ChatGPT conversations are about practical guidance, information lookup, or writing help openai.com. Writing (drafting emails, essays, content, etc.) is the most common use – especially for work – while coding assistance and personal creative projects are smaller niches openai.com. In essence, people turn to ChatGPT as an all-purpose assistant – asking questions, getting advice, and generating text for all sorts of daily needs.
Very widely – ChatGPT has quickly become a workplace tool as well. OpenAI reports over 7 million employees now have ChatGPT Enterprise accounts, a 9× year-over-year increase in enterprise usage pymnts.com. Companies are integrating ChatGPT into daily workflows for things like brainstorming content, writing code, customer support, and more. On average, workers say using AI saves them 40–60 minutes per day, and 75% of employees feel it makes their work faster or improves quality openai.com. In short, many businesses now see ChatGPT as a productivity booster rather than just a novelty.
ChatGPT received several big upgrades in the past year:
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GPT-4o model – a new flagship model providing GPT-4 level intelligence with much faster responses openai.com.
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Voice mode – the ability to talk with ChatGPT using voice, enabling spoken conversations instead of just typing openai.com.
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Persistent memory – ChatGPT can now remember information from your past chats to give more personalized answers (with options to turn this memory on or off) openai.com.
These upgrades make ChatGPT more interactive and useful than ever, letting users have natural conversations and continuity across sessions.
There’s still a free version, and the ChatGPT Plus subscription remains $20 per month for individuals techcrunch.com. What’s new is a plan for teams: OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Team (now called ChatGPT Business) at about $25 per user per month (when billed annually) to provide shared workspaces and admin tools for organizations openai.com. For large enterprises, ChatGPT Enterprise offers custom pricing (reportedly around $60 per user per month at scale) with enhanced security and support techcrunch.com. In short, the pricing tiers expanded in 2024–2025, but the basic Plus plan’s cost hasn’t changed.
