Number of ChatGPT Users (Dec 2024)

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.

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.

Contents

• Top ChatGPT User Statistics
• How Many ChatGPT Users Are There?
• ChatGPT Initial Growth
• ChatGPT User Growth
• ChatGPT User Stats
• ChatGPT Traffic
• ChatGPT by Region
• ChatGPT by Age
• OpenAI Model History

Top ChatGPT User Statistics

• In just 5 days, ChatGPT surpassed 1 million users
• ChatGPT gets approximately 3.66 billion visits per month
  
• Around 62% of ChatGPT's social media traffic comes via YouTube
• Around 15% of ChatGPT's users are American

How Many ChatGPT Users Are There?

According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 100 million weekly users flock to ChatGPT.

And based on October 2024 data from Semrush, ChatGPT attracts 393 million visitors each month.

Sources: Reuters, Semrush

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, Similarweb

ChatGPT User Growth

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

The platform received approximately 3.66 billion visits in October 2024 month (putting it on the shortlist of most-visited websites in the world).

Here's how ChatGPT monthly visits progressed over time:

Month	Number of Visits	Change Over Previous Month	Change Over Previous Month (%)
November 2022	152.7 million	-	-
December 2022	266 million	↑ 113.3 million	↑ 74.2%
January 2023	616 million	↑ 350 million	↑ 131.58%
February 2023	1 billion	↑ 384 million	↑ 62.34%
March 2023	1.6 billion	↑ 600 million	↑ 60%
April 2023	1.8 billion	↑ 200 million	↑ 12.5%
April 2024	1.8 billion	-	-
October 2024	3.66 billion	-	-

Source: Similarweb

ChatGPT User Stats

According to Similarweb, chat.openai.com has been visited approximately 3.66 billion times over the last 30 days.

ChatGPT has a bounce rate of 37.96%.

Each ChatGPT visitor views an average of 3.66 pages per visit. And each user spends an average of 6 minutes and 11 seconds.

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

Source: Similarweb, Wikipedia

ChatGPT Traffic

Top Marketing Channels

Around 7 in 10 (71.84%) ChatGPT visits are direct. 

Organic searches are the second-most popular way to access ChatGPT (22.59% of traffic).

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

Social Media Traffic

In terms of social media traffic, YouTube is responsible for almost 3 in 5 visits (62.07%).

Here’s how other social media networks stack up:

Top Keyword Traffic

The most commonly searched keyword is "chatgpt" with 46.08% of the searches per month.

This is followed by "chat gpt" with 35.23% of monthly searches.

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

Source: Similarweb

ChatGPT by Region

No one country has more ChatGPT users than the US (14.58%).

Second-placed India (9.37%) has less than half as many ChatGPT users.

Together, the top five countries make up around 37% of all ChatGPT users 

Here’s the breakdown of ChatGPT users by region:

Source: Similarweb

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 ChartGPT:

Source: YouGov

OpenAI Model History

Since launching GPT-1 in 2018, OpenAI has expanded the number of parameters each subsequent model has.

The most recent model GPT-4o features the ability to interact using visual, text, or audio inputs.

Here's a breakdown of OpenAI's model history:

Model Name	Release Date	Parameters
GPT-1	2018	117 million
GPT-2	2019	1.5 billion
GPT-3	2020	175 billion
InstructGPT	2022	1.3 billion
GPT-3.5	2022	200 billion
ChatGPT	2022	200 billion
GPT-4	2023	8x 220 billion
Code Interpreter	2023	-
GPT-4o	2024	-
GPT-5	TBA	-

Source: 365DataScience

Key Takeaways

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.

For more related statistics, take a look at Top ChatGPT Alternatives, Top AI Trends, and Amazing Artificial Intelligence Statistics.