Number of ChatGPT Users (March 2025)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT took off in record-breaking fashion.

The artificial intelligence chatbot picked up millions of users in a very short space of time.

Today, ChatGPT is the generic name for several large language models from OpenAI, including GPT-3.5, GPT-4o, and GPT-4.5.

In this up-to-date article, we’ll explore just how many users ChatGPT currently has and other relevant data about the fast-growing AI platform.

Top ChatGPT User Statistics

• In just 5 days, ChatGPT surpassed 1 million users
• ChatGPT.com gets approximately 5.19 billion visits per month
  
• Around 62% of ChatGPT's social media traffic comes via YouTube
• Around 15% of ChatGPT's users are American
• 64.03% of ChatGPT users are on a low income
• OpenAI hopes to reach 1 billion users by the end of 2025

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How Many ChatGPT Users Are There?

Based on January 2025 data from Semrush, ChatGPT ranks #9 in the world's most visited websites.

According to Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's Chief Operating Officer, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly users. It plans to hit 1 billion users by the end of 2025.

Month	Weekly Users
November 2022	1 million
January 2023	30 million
November 2023	100 million
December 2024	300 million
February 2025	400 million

Sources: Reuters, Semrush, CNBC, The Verge, Techerati

ChatGPT User Demographics

64.32% of ChatGPT users are male and 35.68% are female.

More than 45% of its users are under the age of 24. 

One2Target allows us to break down ChatGPT users according to their socioeconomic status:

• 41.21% of users live in a household with 3–4 people
• 35.4% are in full-time employment
• 64.03% of ChatGPT users are on a low income

ChatGPT's Initial Growth

According to OpenAI, ChatGPT acquired 1 million users just 5 days after launching in November 2022.

By comparison, it took Instagram approximately 2.5 months to reach 1 million downloads. And Netflix had to wait around 3.5 years to reach 1 million users.

Here’s a breakdown of the approximate time taken to reach 1 million users for various online services:

* 1 million backers ** 1 million nights booked *** 1 million downloads

Incredibly, it’s estimated that ChatGPT hit 100 million monthly active users in January 2023. This made it the fastest-growing application in history until Threads took that crown in July 2023.

To put that into perspective, TikTok took 9 months to reach 100 million users. And Instagram took 2.5 years.

Sources: Statista, Reuters

ChatGPT User Growth

ChatGPT's traffic and usage have skyrocketed since its launch.

Here's how ChatGPT monthly visits progressed over time:

Month	Number of Visits	Change Over Previous Month	Change Over Previous Month (%)
December 2022	264.7 million	-	-
January 2023	683.2 million	↑ 418.5 million	↑ 158.10%
February 2023	1.3 billion	↑ 616.8 million	↑ 90.28%
March 2023	1.9 billion	↑ 600 million	↑ 46.15%
April 2023	2.3 billion	↑ 400 million	↑ 21.05%
April 2024	2.8 billion	↑ 500 million	↑ 21.74%
November 2024	4.8 billion	↑ 2 billion	↑ 71.43%
December 2024	4.8 billion	-	-
January 2025	4.7 billion	↓ 0.1 billion	↓ 2.08%
February 2025	5.2 billion	↑ 0.5 billion	↑ 10.64%

Source: Semrush

ChatGPT User Stats

According to Semrush figures in March 2025:

• ChatGPT.com is visited approximately 5.2 billion times each month
• 601.5 million of those are unique visitors
• ChatGPT.com has a bounce rate of 38.70%.
• Each visitor views an average of 2.77 pages per visit
• Each user spends an average of 8 minutes and 13 seconds on the site.

Here’s how ChatGPT compares to other popular websites in terms of monthly visits and user interaction:

Source: Semrush

ChatGPT Traffic

Top Marketing Channels

Around 3 in 4 (79.77%) ChatGPT visits are direct. 

Referral traffic is the second-most popular way to access ChatGPT (9.36% of traffic).

Here’s a breakdown of the most popular ChatGPT marketing channels:

You can see a full journey breakdown of ChatGPT traffic with Semrush's traffic analytics.  

Social Media Traffic

In of social media traffic, YouTube is responsible for almost 2 in 5 visits (39.81%).

Here’s how other social media networks stack up:

Top Keyword Traffic

The most commonly searched keyword is "chat gpt" with 35.54% of the searches per month.

This is followed by "chatgpt" with 22.08% of monthly searches.

Here's a breakdown of the most commonly used keywords that users use to find ChatGPT.

Source: Semrush

ChatGPT Search

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT search, there was speculation that it could eat into Google's market share.

According to the latest SEO statistics, that has not happened yet.

It's estimated that ChatGPT received 37.5 million searches per day in 2024, while Google received 14 billion.

Between 2023-2024, the number of Google searches increased by 21.6%, and its market share remains above 90%. 

Source: SparkToro

ChatGPT Subscriptions and Revenue

ChatGPT is free to use.

It has 10 million paying subscribers (Plus, Team, and Pro), and an additional 1 million commercial plan users.

From its paid subscriptions, the company makes $2.7 billion per year. This is forecasted to reach $4 billion by the end of 2025.

Source: Moomoo

ChatGPT by Region

No one country has more ChatGPT users than the US (14.78%).

Second-placed India (8.85%) has less than half as many ChatGPT users.

Together, the top five countries make up around 36% of all ChatGPT users 

Here’s the breakdown of ChatGPT users by region:

Source: Semrush

ChatGPT by Age

According to YouGov, 17% of 30 to 44-year-olds have used ChatGPT.

Similarly, 15% of 18 to 29-year-olds have used ChatGPT to generate text.

Around 1 in 10 (9%) of 45 to 64-year-olds and 5% of 65+ year-olds use ChatGPT.

However, far more people are aware of ChatGPT:

Source: YouGov

OpenAI Model History

OpenAI launched Generative Pre-trained Transformer 1 (GPT-1) in June 2018.

The first model called "ChatGPT" was launched in November 2022.

Here's a breakdown of key OpenAI models:

Model	Release Date	Context Window	Max Output Tokens	Knowledge Cutoff	Input	Output	Reasoning
GPT-4.5	2025	128,000	16,384	Oct 2023	Text, Image	Text	No
GPT-o3-mini	2024	200,000	100,000	Oct 2023	Text	Text	Yes
GPT-o1-mini	2024	128,000	65,536	Oct 2023	Text	Text	Yes
GPT-o1	2024	200,000	100,000	Oct 2023	Text, Image	Text	Yes
GPT-4o-audio	2024	128,000	16,384	Oct 2023	Text, audio	Text, audio	No
GPT-4o-mini	2024	128,000	16,384	Oct 2023	Text, Image	Text	No
GPT-4o	2024	128,000	16,384	Oct 2023	Text, Image	Text	No
GPT-4	2023	8,192	8,192	Dec 2023	Text	Text	No

Source: OpenAI, Wikipedia, OpenAI

Future of ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s overnight success has blown previous user growth figures out of the water.

And based on current data, the AI chatbot’s success looks set to continue:

• OpenAI is working on GPT-5, which is due to be released in 2025
• GPT-5 is expected to combine multiple OpenAI models into one
• Users on the free ChatGPT subscription will get unlimited access to GPT-5 when it's available
• OpenAI is rumored to be considering a new paid tier that will cost $2,000 per month

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