{
    "question": "How many people use ChatGPT?",
    "answer": "ChatGPT has more than 1 billion weekly active users, OpenAI said on 31 August 2026, up from the 500 million people who used it every week in March 2025. In the US, 44% of adults said they use ChatGPT in Pew Research Center's survey of February 2026, rising to 61% of adults aged 18 to 29.",
    "period": "Aug 2026",
    "key_numbers": [
        {
            "value": "1 billion+",
            "label": "ChatGPT weekly active users",
            "note": "OpenAI, 31 Aug 2026 (company-reported)",
            "stat": "ai-search/chatgpt-weekly-active-users"
        },
        {
            "value": "44%",
            "label": "US adults who say they use ChatGPT",
            "note": "Pew Research Center, 17-23 Feb 2026",
            "stat": "ai-search/us-adults-use-chatgpt"
        },
        {
            "value": "61%",
            "label": "US adults aged 18 to 29 who use ChatGPT",
            "note": "Pew Research Center, 17-23 Feb 2026",
            "stat": "ai-search/us-adults-use-chatgpt"
        },
        {
            "value": "50 million+",
            "label": "OpenAI consumer subscribers",
            "note": "OpenAI, 27 Feb 2026 (company-reported)",
            "stat": "ai-search/chatgpt-weekly-active-users"
        },
        {
            "value": "About 53%",
            "label": "ChatGPT's share of generative AI website visits, down from about 76% a year earlier",
            "note": "Similarweb, May 2026",
            "stat": "ai-search/chatgpt-share-of-gen-ai-visits"
        }
    ],
    "tables": [
        {
            "id": "measures",
            "title": "How many people use ChatGPT, by measure",
            "columns": [
                "Measure",
                "Value",
                "Period",
                "Source"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "Weekly active users",
                    "More than 1 billion",
                    "Aug 2026",
                    "OpenAI"
                ],
                [
                    "Consumer subscribers",
                    "More than 50 million",
                    "Feb 2026",
                    "OpenAI"
                ],
                [
                    "US adults who say they use ChatGPT",
                    "44%",
                    "17-23 Feb 2026",
                    "Pew Research Center"
                ],
                [
                    "ChatGPT's share of generative AI website visits worldwide",
                    "About 53%",
                    "May 2026",
                    "Similarweb"
                ],
                [
                    "Average monthly web visits to all generative AI platforms",
                    "9.5 billion",
                    "Jun 2025 - May 2026",
                    "Similarweb"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "measure-wau",
                "measure-subscribers",
                "measure-us-adults",
                "measure-visit-share",
                "measure-genai-visits"
            ],
            "note": "OpenAI's figures are company-reported and not audited. Pew is a survey of 5,119 US adults. Similarweb counts web visits from a panel, not app use, and puts unique visitors to generative AI platforms at 655 million a month."
        },
        {
            "id": "by-age",
            "title": "US adults who use ChatGPT, by age (Feb 2026)",
            "columns": [
                "Age",
                "Use ChatGPT"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "18 to 29",
                    "61%"
                ],
                [
                    "30 to 49",
                    "55%"
                ],
                [
                    "50 to 64",
                    "37%"
                ],
                [
                    "65 and older",
                    "19%"
                ],
                [
                    "All US adults",
                    "44%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "age-18-29",
                "age-30-49",
                "age-50-64",
                "age-65-plus",
                "age-all"
            ],
            "note": "Pew Research Center, American Trends Panel, 5,119 US adults, 17-23 Feb 2026.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "us-trend",
            "title": "US adults who say they use ChatGPT, each year",
            "columns": [
                "Survey year",
                "Use ChatGPT"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "2023",
                    "18%"
                ],
                [
                    "2024",
                    "23%"
                ],
                [
                    "2025",
                    "34%"
                ],
                [
                    "2026",
                    "44%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "us-2023",
                "us-2024",
                "us-2025",
                "us-2026"
            ],
            "note": "Pew Research Center. From 2023 to 2025 the question was \"Have you ever used ChatGPT?\", asked of those who had heard of it; in 2026 it also asked about other chatbots, so 2026 is not a clean continuation.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "by-chatbot",
            "title": "US adults who use each AI chatbot (Feb 2026)",
            "columns": [
                "Chatbot",
                "All US adults",
                "Ages 18 to 29",
                "Ages 65 and older"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "ChatGPT",
                    "44%",
                    "61%",
                    "19%"
                ],
                [
                    "Gemini",
                    "24%",
                    "30%",
                    "11%"
                ],
                [
                    "Copilot",
                    "17%",
                    "17%",
                    "10%"
                ],
                [
                    "Meta AI",
                    "14%",
                    "14%",
                    "10%"
                ],
                [
                    "Grok",
                    "8%",
                    "9%",
                    "3%"
                ],
                [
                    "Claude",
                    "6%",
                    "10%",
                    "1%"
                ],
                [
                    "Character.ai",
                    "3%",
                    "7%",
                    "1%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "bot-chatgpt",
                "bot-gemini",
                "bot-copilot",
                "bot-meta-ai",
                "bot-grok",
                "bot-claude",
                "bot-character-ai"
            ],
            "note": "Pew Research Center, 5,119 US adults, 17-23 Feb 2026. 49% of US adults use any AI chatbot.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "history",
            "title": "ChatGPT weekly users, as stated by OpenAI",
            "columns": [
                "OpenAI post",
                "Weekly users",
                "Wording"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "31 Mar 2025",
                    "500 million",
                    "people who use ChatGPT every week"
                ],
                [
                    "15 Sep 2025",
                    "700 million",
                    "weekly active users"
                ],
                [
                    "5 Nov 2025",
                    "More than 800 million",
                    "weekly users"
                ],
                [
                    "27 Feb 2026",
                    "More than 900 million",
                    "weekly active users"
                ],
                [
                    "31 Aug 2026",
                    "More than 1 billion",
                    "weekly active users"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "wau-2025-03",
                "wau-2025-09",
                "wau-2025-11",
                "wau-2026-02",
                "wau-2026-08"
            ],
            "note": "Each date is the OpenAI blog post that states the figure, not the day the count was taken. OpenAI does not publish a monthly series, a country split or its method.",
            "source": "openai"
        }
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "name": "OpenAI company posts",
            "publisher": "OpenAI",
            "type": "vendor",
            "url": "https://openai.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Pew Research Center",
            "publisher": "Pew Research Center",
            "type": "survey",
            "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Similarweb AI search statistics (2026 Generative AI Landscape)",
            "publisher": "Similarweb",
            "type": "vendor",
            "url": "https://www.similarweb.com/"
        }
    ],
    "content_changed_on": "2026-10-30",
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-search/chatgpt-users",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-search/chatgpt-users.csv"
}