ChatGPT is simply the name you think of when AI is brought up. It’s seen as the figurehead of the latest tech revolution – and with around 800 million weekly active users, it continues to lead the way.
However, the tide might be turning; a dramatic drop in market share across 2025 shows that other AI platforms are catching up.
It still leads the way, but ChatGPT needs to work overtime to remain at the top.
In this guide, we’ll bring you the latest ChatGPT usage stats for 2026 so you can see where this platform is headed and what people are most likely to use it for.
The Standout ChatGPT Usage Stats 2026
- Over 800 Million People Use ChatGPT Actively Every Week
- 83.27% Of Uses Will Choose ChatGPT As Their Go-To AI Tool For Personal Tasks
- 70.80% Of Users Pick ChatGPT as Their Primary AI Tool at Work
- ChatGPT Sees 5.2 Billion Monthly Users
- ChatGPT has a 64.5% Market Share
ChatGPT User & Traffic Stats
We’ll start our journey with a dip into ChatGPTs userbase. Specifically, how many users does this platform have – and how much traffic does it draw in each month?
Let’s break it down into two parts: weekly active users and monthly active users.
SQ Magazine reports that ChatGPT boasts 800 million weekly active users. That is beyond the realms of comprehension – for context, Google recently posted a blog showing that Gemini gets 650 million users a month.
How does this figure translate to monthly active users?
OpenAI doesn’t share this data with the public, but Semrush has run analysis on ChatGPT’s web traffic over the last few months, revealing that around 5.2 billion users visited it in December 2025.
The most shocking thing about that stat is that it’s a significant decrease from the previous two months:
| Month | Total Visits |
| December | 5.21 Billion |
| November | 5.6 Billion |
| October | 6.01 Billion |
That amounts to a 6.84% decrease from November 2025, but should you read anything into that? It could be down to the festive lull in December, coupled with the fact that November and October tend to be two of the busiest months online.
The bottom line is that loads of people use ChatGPT – though how does it fare on a global scale?
Semrush has a ranking of all the most visited websites in the world, and ChatGPT currently sits in 5th place.
- Google: 95 billion monthly visits
- YouTube: 47 billion monthly visits
- Facebook: 9.2 billion monthly visits
- Instagram: 5.7 billion monthly visits
- ChatGPT: 5.2 billion monthly visits
- Reddit: 5.2 billion monthly visits
- Wikipedia: 4.2 billion monthly visits
ChatGPT Demographic Statistics – Who Uses It The Most?
Who makes up the majority of ChatGPT’s immense number of users?
Looking at research from Similarweb, you’ll see that most ChatGPT users are male between the ages of 25 and 34.
Here’s a closer look at the key demographic statistics:
| Age Range | Percentage of ChatGPT Users |
| 18-24 | 23.09% |
| 25-34 | 28.86% |
| 35-44 | 19.12% |
| 45-54 | 14.13% |
| 55-64 | 9.26% |
| 65+ | 5.54% |
There’s nothing overly surprising from that table; it follows the same trend as other AI platforms, with millennials making up the most active users.
One interesting thing you may have deduced is that around a third of ChatGPT users fall into the 34-54 age bracket.
When you compare this table with the one displayed by Resourcera (which looked at ChatGPT users in September 2025), you notice another pattern.
Users in the two youngest groups have dropped from 24.26% to 23.09% and 30.23% to 28.86%.
While they still make up the two highest user groups, all the older groups saw a decent increase.
Perhaps this shows a new trend in who’s using ChatGPT.
When it comes to the user’s gender, there’s a reasonably clear split between male and female users:
- Male: 54.11%
- Female: 45.89%
Finally, we can look at the top countries where ChatGPT is most popular:
| Top Countries | Percentage of ChatGPT Traffic |
| United States | 19.51% |
| India | 9.06% |
| Brazil | 5% |
| Japan | 4.11% |
| United Kingdom | 3.29% |
| Others | 59.03% |
Nothing really stands out to us as odd here; we always expect the US to lead the way, and usually India and Brazil follow.
You may have expected the UK to be higher on this list, and it has been in months gone by, but it saw a 9.03% decrease from the previous month (November 2025).
ChatGPT Usage – How People Use The Platform
ChatGPT has grown to the point where you can use it for almost anything, but what does the data say about this?
Lucky for us, OpenAI published a study in the later stages of 2025 that broke down how much people use the ChatGPT platform on both desktop and mobile.
The headline here is that 73% of ChatGPT usage is non-work-related.
The study claims that’s an increase of 20% from the year prior.
When you take an even closer look at how people use ChatGPT, the top three are as follows:
- Practical Guidance: 29%
- Writing: 24%
- Seeking Information: 24%
OpenAI then went a step further to categorise how people interact with ChatGPT based on their intent:
| Intent | Percentage of Users |
| Asking (getting advice or info) | 49% |
| Doing (using ChatGPT to complete tasks) | 40% |
| Expressing (conversing with ChatGPT casually) | 11% |
This is probably one of the most important statistics, particularly when you look at how people approach AI compared with regular search engines.
Nearly half of all users call upon it when asking questions, which has had a profound effect on the SEO industry as we’ve covered many times before.
ChatGPT Usage Popularity – Home vs Work
We’re still talking about how people use ChatGPT, but Exploding Topics conducted a useful survey that demonstrates this AI platform’s popularity against others.
It asked people about their favourite AI tools for both home and work use – and here are the results:
- 83.27% of users choose ChatGPT for personal tasks
- AI mode in Google Search is the second-most-used personal AI tool at 41.13%
- Google Gemini comes in third with 38.38% of users surveyed choosing it
- 70.8% of users will pick ChatPT for work tasks
- 32.23% of users choose Google’s AI Mode
- 31.28% of users choose Gemini
So, no matter whether you’re using AI for work or personal tasks, ChatGPT dominates as the number one pick by far.
ChatGPT Market Share Statistics 2026
ChatGPT retains a majority share of the AI market in 2026 – though things aren’t going all their way.
In January 2025, OpenAI and ChatGPT boasted an 86.7% market share. This has now decreased to a 64.5% market share, which is still a majority, but it’s shrinking.
Trending Topics states that ChatGPT saw a 15% drop in market share within the last six months of 2025 alone!
It shows that the others are catching up, so here’s a closer look at the current market share statistics in 2026:
| AI Platforms | Market Share |
| ChatGPT | 64.5% |
| Gemini | 21.5% |
| DeepSeek | 3.7% |
| Grok | 3.4% |
| Perplexity | 2.0% |
| Claude | 2.0% |
| Copilot | 1.1% |
Things look even more dominant when you consider ChatGPT’s market share of traffic from AI platforms.
Looking back at the report from Semrush, we can see how different AI platforms direct traffic to websites.
In the last 6 months of 2025, ChatGPT sent 4 billion users to websites from its platform – in comparison, Gemini was second with 7 million.
In the last month alone, we can see just how big a market share ChatGPT has when it comes to traffic from AI platforms:
| AI Platform | Share of Total Traffic from AI Platforms |
| ChatGPT | 82.17% |
| Other | 17.597% |
| Gemini | 0.144% |
| Grok | 0.022% |
| Perplexity | 0.021% |
| Claude | 0.021% |
Essentially, this means that 82.17% of traffic from all AI platforms originates from ChatGPT. It’s arguably the most important statistic from an SEO perspective, as it demonstrates the need to optimise websites for ChatGPT specifically, rather than focusing on all AI platforms.
Summarising ChatGPT Usage Stats 2026
In summary, ChatGPT still has astronomical levels of users every week and month, far surpassing any AI platform on the planet.
Its 64.5% market share is way above Gemini in second place – but this could be an interesting year.
All of the key usage statistics suggest a decline in ChatGPT users.
Could this be the beginning of the end for OpenAI’s dominance in this field? Is Gemini poised to become the #1 pick as we predict?
You’ll have to check back next year to find out.
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