ChatGPT Statistics: A 2024 Mega-Report with 376+ Game-Changing Insights

ChatGPT is a powerful natural language processing (NLP) tool.

It can generate human-like responses in a conversational form.

Since its launch on 30th November 2022, it has:

1. Gained over 180.5 million users
2. Added more than 1040 plugins
3. Received a valuation of $86 billion

In this article, we’ll review all the statistics behind ChatGPT’s explosive growth.

Top 10 ChatGPT Statistics and Facts

1. ChatGPT is the 2nd fastest software to reach 1 million users.
2. OpenAI has the 2nd highest valuations among generative AI companies. ^Source
3. ChatGPT currently has 100+ million weekly users. ^Source
4. The website has 1.38 billion visitors per month. ^Source
5. ChatGPT can answer and write in 95 different languages.
6. More than 2 million+ developers are using ChatGPT’s API (which includes over 92% of Fortune 500 companies) ^Source
7. GPT-4 can generate over 25,000 words in a single prompt
8. ChatGPT’s iOS app had 500,000 downloads in the first 6 days of its launch on the Apple Store. ^Source
9. ChatGPT has a total of 1.5 million iOS app download ^Source
10. OpenAI is currently valued at $86 billion by private investors ^Source

Overview of ChatGPT Statistics

ChatGPT Polling Statistics

How many Americans have heard of ChatGPT?

• 46% Americans have heard at least something about ChatGPT ^Source
• 54% of Americans say they have heard “nothing at all” about ChatGPT ^Source
• 6% of Americans have used ChatGPT ^Source

Do Americans think positively or negatively on the advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence?

• 36% of Americans think that advancements in generative AI will be bad for society ^Source
• 23% are neutral – they believe it will be neither good or bad ^Source
• 13% think it is good for society ^Source
• People who often use AI tools are more positive about them. 30% think AI is good for society, while only 4% of those who never use AI tools think the same. ^Source

Will AI Advancements affect job opportunities?

• 46% of Americans believe advancement in AI will lead to fewer jobs ^Source
• 14% believe that it will lead to more jobs ^Source
• 17% say AI advancements will not change the number of jobs ^Source
• 6% of people who have never used AI believe AI advancement will lead more jobs ^Source
• 33% of people who use AI at least somewhat believe AI advancement will lead more jobs ^Source
• 54% believe that manufacturing jobs will decrease ^Source
• 50% believe that customer service jobs will decrease ^Source
• 44% believe that retail sales workers will have a decrease in job availability ^Source
• 29% of adult Americans believe that AI will decrease the number of jobs available in their industry ^Source
• 42% of adult Americans believe that AI will increase the number of jobs available in their industry ^Source

 How will advancement in AI affect businesses and their employees?

• 50% believe that AI will decrease job opportunities in their business ^Source
• 15% believe that AI will have no effect on job opportunities in their business ^Source
• 34% believe that AI will decrease operating costs for their business ^Source
• 28% believe that AI will increase operating costs for their business ^Source
• 27% believe that quality of work will decrease ^Source
• 30% believe that quality of work will increase ^Source
• 16% believe that productivity will decrease in their business and employees ^Source
• 47% believe that productivity will increase in their business and employees ^Source 

Should AI be regulated?

• Almost 75% of Americans believe that AI should be either somewhat or heavily regulated by the government. ^Source
• 8% believe that AI should not be regulated by the government. ^Source
• 20% are unsure. ^Source

How often do Americans use AI tools?

• One in four Americans have at least been frequently used AI tools ^Source
• AI usage is also higher among people with higher education ^Source

Will AI have a positive impact on education?

• 36% of Americans believe that AI will affect the education system negatively ^Source
• 25% believe that it will impact the education system positively ^Source
• Younger Americans are more optimistic about AI’s effects on education than older Americans ^Source
• 44% of American adults over 65 believe that AI will have a negative impact ^Source
• Only 18% of American adults over 65 believe that AI will have a positive impact ^Source

How should schools use AI?

• 52% believe that schools should focus on “teaching students how to appropriately use AI” ^Source
• 24% believe that schools should focus on “preventing students from using AI” ^Source

Do Americans believe it is necessary for students to learn AI-related skills for career development?

• 19% believe that learning AI is very necessary ^Source
• 42% of Americans say it is somewhat necessary ^Source
• People who think AI is important for students’ future careers are more likely to say schools should teach how to use AI properly (70%) compared to those who don’t think AI is necessary (30%). ^Source

ChatGPT History & Early Release Date

• ChatGPT’s parent company, Open AI was created as a non-profit in December 2015. ^Source
• Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, AWS, Infosys and YC Research pledged over $1 billion for Open AI. 
• In April 2016, Open AI released “OpenAI Gym” – a public beta platform for reinforcement learning research. ^Source
• In February 2019, OpenAI announced GPT-2. ^Source
• In 2019, OpenAI transitioned to for-profit. ^Source
• In 2020, GPT-3 was released. 
• In 2021, DALL-E was introduced. 

ChatGPT Timeline

ChatGPT Statistics

ChatGPT User Growth Statistics

After only two months of launching, ChatGPT has become the second-fastest software to reach 100 million active users.

ChatGPT crossed over 1 million active users in just 5 days since its launch on 30 November 2022.

In just under 60 days, ChatGPT was able to grow its user base by 9,900%.

The only other platform to reach a faster user growth rate is Threads by Meta.

ChatGPT web traffic statistics

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has seen a 967.42% increase in web traffic.

However, since May 2023, the website had a decline in 533 million total monthly visits.

ChatGPT Traffic Source

Currently, ChatGPT is not running any paid advertising such as Google Ads and YouTube ads.

Instead, most of its growth is from organic traffic.

More than 8/10 users access ChatGPT by directly typing the URL in the browser.

Here’s the complete breakdown of their traffic in December 2023:

ChatGPT social media traffic

6/10 social media traffic comes from YouTube.

Here’s a complete breakdown of ChatGPT’s social media traffic for December 2023:

ChatGPT Keywords

In the United States alone, ChatGPT has an estimated 382,136 organic keywords.

These keywords are estimated to bring 214.7 million monthly visitors with an estimated traffic cost of $44.7 million.

Here are the top 5 keywords by traffic volume for ChatGPT in the United States:

ChatGPT Mobile App Statistics

• The app was first launched in the Apple Store on 18/5/2023
• In the first month, it was downloaded 3.9 million times ^Source
• By June 2023, it had 15.1 million downloads ^Source
• As of January 2024, it is the No. 2 App for Productivity in the Apple App Store.

How Many ChatGPT Plugins Are There?

• Plugins were launched in March 2023 with 11 plugins 
• There are currently 1040 plugins available in ChatGPT
• 67 plugins are released every week (on average, from June-August 2023) ^Source
• The first ChatGPT plugins were: Zapier, Wolfram, Speak, Shop, OpenTable, Milo, Klarna, KAYAK, Instacart, FiscalNote and Expedia

ChatGPT by Country

Currently, 188 countries have access to ChatGPT.

These countries include:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City), Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine (with certain exceptions), United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Source

As of January 2024, here are the countries that have banned ChatGPT: 

• Afghanistan
• Bahrain
• Belarus
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• China
• Cuba
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Iran
• Kazakhstan
• Korea, North (North Korea)
• Laos
• Libya
• Macedonia (North Macedonia)
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritius
• Micronesia, Federated States of
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Palau
• Russia
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Tonga
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela
• Yemen

How many paying users does ChatGPT have?

Currently, OpenAI has not disclosed this information.

What is ChatGPT’s revenue, funding & investments?

OpenAI has currently received funding from:

In their investor presentation, OpenAI has mentioned that:

• In 2023, they will rake in $200 million in revenue
• In 2024, they will bring in $1 billion in annual revenue

According to the Information, OpenAI’s revenue is: 

This means:

• OpenAI’s revenue has multiplied 46 times since 2022
• A majority of the revenue comes from ChatGPT subscriptions.
• OpenAI’s monthly revenue is $100 million

OpenAI’s Revenue vs Anthropic

This means:

OpenAI’s revenue is 13x bigger than Anthropic’s (parent company for Claude AI)

Note: According OpenAI’s 990 filing with the IRS in 2022, OpenAI’s revenue is $44,485. ^Source

Despite this, OpenAI has a tender offer which allows employees to sell shares in the start-up to outside investors with a valuation of $86 billion. ^Source

Microsoft holds 49% stake in OpenAI. ^Source

OpenAI is also in talks for another round of funding at a valuation of $100 billion or over. ^Source

If this happens, this would put OpenAI as the 2nd most valuable startup in the US after SpaceX.

How much does it cost to run ChatGPT?

OpenAI has not disclosed any information about the running cost for ChatGPT.

According to the CEO, the cost of a single chat is under 10 cents. Source: Sam Altman

However, according to an Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Professor at Maryland University, Tom Goldstein, we can estimate:

• Daily cost: Approximately $100 thousand
• Monthly cost: $3 million
• ChatGPT has 175 Billion parameters
• ChatGPT receives 10 million queries per day (assuming 1 million users make an average of 10 queries/user)

Note: His estimates are based on the Azure Cloud costs

How much does ChatGPT cost?

ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month. With this, you will get access to:

• GPT-4
• Code Interpreter
• Plugins
• Search the web with Bing
• Sharing chat with other users

Since August 28, 2023, ChatGPT has also introduced a new plan: ChatGPT Enterprise.

This pricing model offers personalised pricing based on the business’s needs and scalability. 

What Language Does ChatGPT Support?

Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Awadhi, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese (Yue), Catalan, Chhattisgarhi, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dogri, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Konkani, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maithili, Malay, Maltese, Mandarin, Marathi, Marwari, Min Nan, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Santali, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wu, Xhosa.

What programming languages does ChatGPT support?

ChatGPT supports more than 60+ programming languages, including: 

1. Python
2. JavaScript
3. Java
4. C++
5. C#
6. Ruby
7. Go
8. PHP
9. TypeScript
10. Swift
11. Kotlin
12. Rust
13. SQL
14. HTML
15. CSS
16. R
17. MATLAB
18. Dart
19. Perl
20. Scala
21. Bash/Shell scripting
22. Lua
23. Groovy
24. PowerShell
25. Objective-C
26. Assembly Language
27. Haskell
28. Elm
29. Julia
30. F#
31. Clojure
32. Elixir
33. Erlang
34. Fortran
35. Lisp
36. Prolog
37. Ada
38. Apex
39. COBOL
40. ColdFusion
41. Delphi
42. F#
43. LabVIEW
44. Pascal
45. PL/SQL
46. SAS
47. Scheme
48. Smalltalk
49. Tcl
50. VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
51. Visual Basic .NET
52. XAML
53. ActionScript
54. Crystal
55. D
56. Hack
57. Nim
58. OCaml
59. Reason
60. RPG (Report Program Generator)

ChatGPT features

Here are some of ChatGPT’s biggest features:

• Code Interpreter – You can run Python code in a live working environment. Additionally, users can upload documents (pdf, python files, CSV files) for ChatGPT to use.
• Plugins – Access more than 422 verified plugins. These plugins are made by 3rd party software using OpenAI’s API.
• History – You can export your chat history & training and clear all conversations. You also have chat history tabs for you to quickly navigate between different chats.
• Search the web with Bing – You can let ChatGPT access the internet using Bing.
• Shared links – You can share entire chat conversations for others to view
• Custom instructions – You can provide specific guidelines for the GPT models to follow
• Custom GPTS – Save your favourite prompts and create a custom ChatGPT bot to interact
• GPT Store – The Apple Store for custom GPTs

How Much Does ChatGPT Cost?

• ChatGPT Plus – $20
• ChatGPT Team – $25
• ChatGPT Enterprise

How many ChatGPT plugins are there?

Currently, there are more than 1040 verified plugins in the marketplace.

GPT-4 Turbo Statistics 

• GPT-4 is ChatGPT’s latest generation model. Source
• It has an updated cutoff knowledge of April 2023
• It has 128k context window – around 300 pages of text in a single prompt 
• It is 3X cheaper ($0.01) for input tokens than original GPT-4 model
• 2X cheaper for output tokens ($0.03) than original GPT-4 model
• It has an output token of 4096 

List of Exams ChatGPT Has Passed

ChatGPT has sat through more than exams. Here are the results:

ChatGPT versions & How Much Data is ChatGPT Trained On?

What is the difference between GPT-3 and GPT-4?

There are 4 key differences:

ChatGPT competitors

Here’s a list of ChatGPT competitors & alternatives:

Summary

ChatGPT is an AI language model that has sparked the movement for Artificial Intelligence tools.

Its ability to take user queries, and process them into the human language has helped make work more efficient and productive.