Gemini has spent the past year establishing itself as the clearest number-two force in AI, and the gap to ChatGPT keeps narrowing. The single biggest update this quarter: at Google I/O in May 2026, Google disclosed that the Gemini app has grown to over 900 million monthly active users, up from 400 million a year earlier, and a huge jump from the 750 million figure Google reported for Q4 2025. That puts Gemini’s headline user count within touching distance of ChatGPT’s 900M+ weekly active users, even though the two metrics (weekly vs. monthly) aren’t perfectly comparable.
Top Google Gemini Stats – July 2026
- 900 million+ monthly active users in the Gemini app as of Google I/O, May 2026, up from 750 million at Q4 2025 and 400 million a year prior
- Gemini’s global web traffic market share has reached 27.3% (Similarweb, data to May 26, 2026), up from 25.5% in March and 8.9% a year earlier
- AI Overviews reach 2 billion+ users every month across 200+ countries
- AI Mode in Search has surpassed 100 million daily/monthly active users in the US and India alone
- Gemini’s API now processes 16+ billion tokens per minute, roughly on par with OpenAI’s throughput
- Gemini Enterprise has sold 8 million+ paid seats across 2,800+ companies, with paid MAU up 40% quarter on quarter in Q1 2026
- Mobile app DAU share in the US has held steady at ~25% for six consecutive months, the most stable share of any major platform
- Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings materials did not disclose an updated Gemini app MAU figure, which is why the I/O number a few weeks later is currently the freshest official figure available
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Gemini’s User Growth:
The full run of Google’s disclosed figures now looks like this:
- April 2025: 350 million MAU
- Q2 2025: 450 million MAU
- Q3 2025: 650 million MAU
- Q4 2025 (Feb 2026 earnings call): 750 million MAU
- Google I/O, May 2026: 900 million+ MAU
That’s roughly 550 million new MAUs added in about 13 months, an extraordinary pace for a standalone consumer app, even before counting Gemini’s presence inside Search, Android, and Workspace. Notably, Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings release (April 29) did not include an updated MAU figure for the standalone app, which means the I/O disclosure a few weeks later is currently the most recent official number; a Polymarket market tracking whether Alphabet would disclose a Q1 MAU figure above certain thresholds resolved “No” for lack of disclosure, underscoring that the I/O number came through a different channel (a keynote, not an earnings call).
AI Overviews and AI Mode: Still the Bigger Story
Gemini’s reach outside the standalone app remains larger than the app itself, and continues to grow:
- AI Overviews now serve 2 billion+ users every month across 200+ countries and territories
- AI Mode has surpassed 100 million monthly active users in the US and India combined, and separately has been reported crossing 75 million daily active users
- Circle to Search, powered by Gemini, is available across 580 million+ Android devices
- Google’s own materials indicate AI Mode has over 1 billion monthly active users worldwide when counted as part of the broader Search experience, per Google I/O 2026 disclosures
Between the standalone app, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Android integration, Gemini’s total consumer reach remains almost certainly the largest of any AI platform in the world, even though ChatGPT still leads on the narrower “standalone chatbot” comparison.
Gemini Market Share vs Other AI Platforms
Global Web Traffic Share
Gemini’s climb has been the standout structural story of the past year in AI web traffic, and it hasn’t slowed:
| AI Platform | 12 Months Ago | March 2026 | May 2026 |
| ChatGPT | 76.4% | 56.7% | 52.7% |
| Google Gemini | 8.9% | 25.5% | 27.3% |
| Claude | 1.6% | ~6% | 8.9% |
| DeepSeek | – | 3.7% | 4.0% |
| Grok | – | ~6%* | 2.8% |
| Copilot | – | 1.1% | 2.0% |
| Perplexity | – | 2.0% | 1.3% |
*Grok’s March figure varies by source; see our Grok AI Stats post for the discrepancy between different analysts’ March readings.
Gemini has grown its worldwide web-traffic share more than three-fold in twelve months and has now comfortably cleared the 25% mark, cementing its position as the unambiguous number two by this measure. Google’s ecosystem advantage, Android, Search, Workspace, and Chrome, remains the core explanation: users increasingly don’t have to actively choose Gemini to end up using it.
Mobile App DAU Share: Still the Steadiest Platform
Where every other major platform’s mobile share has swung sharply in one direction or another over the past six months, Gemini’s has been remarkably stable:
| AI Platform (US Mobile) | Dec 2025 | Apr 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| ChatGPT | ~50% | 38.1% | Continuing to fall |
| Gemini | ~22% | ~25% | ~25% (steady; DAUs up 13% YTD) |
| Grok | 14% | 13.5% | Plateaued |
| Claude | <2% | 13.1% | ~17% |
| Copilot | ~10% | ~10% | Down ~60% YTD |
Apptopia’s June 2026 data brief singled Gemini out as the only app besides Claude with steadily increasing daily active users every single month this year, even as ChatGPT’s absolute DAU count has fallen and Copilot’s has collapsed. Gemini’s share hasn’t spiked the way Claude’s has, but its underlying user base keeps growing every month, which is arguably the more durable growth pattern.
US-Specific Web Traffic Share
Because global figures can understate Gemini’s position in markets where Google’s distribution is weaker (and overstate it where Android penetration is very high), it’s worth flagging the US-specific breakdown separately: Similarweb’s May 2026 US data shows ChatGPT at 58.3%, Gemini at 19.3%, and Claude at 13.4%. Gemini’s global share (27.3%) is meaningfully higher than its US share, reflecting outsized strength in Asian and Latin American markets relative to the US.
Gemini in the Enterprise
Enterprise adoption remains one of Gemini’s most under-covered strengths:
- Gemini Enterprise has sold over 8 million paid seats across 2,800+ companies
- 120,000+ enterprises use Gemini in some capacity, including 95% of the top 20 global SaaS companies
- Paid Gemini Enterprise MAU grew 40% quarter on quarter in Q1 2026
- Google Cloud revenue grew 63% year on year to $20 billion in Q1 2026, its strongest quarter as Alphabet’s primary growth driver, with a contracted backlog that nearly doubled in a single quarter to over $460 billion
Gemini Developer and API Usage
- Gemini API processes 16+ billion tokens per minute as of Q1 2026, up 60% quarter on quarter, and now broadly comparable to OpenAI’s own throughput (which reached roughly 15 billion tokens per minute in early Q2 2026)
- 13 million developers have built with Google’s generative AI models
- Google’s total Gemini API request volume hit 85 billion requests in January 2026, up 142% year on year
The Apple Partnership: Still on Track
The Apple-Google deal, under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models and a more personalised Siri will run on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model, remains on schedule as of July 2026. Google Cloud has publicly reaffirmed the deal is on track for a 2026 launch, expected to arrive with iOS 27 later this year. Worth roughly $1 billion per year to Google, this deal, when it ships, would put Gemini in front of 2 billion+ Apple devices, on top of its existing Android reach, making it by far the largest AI distribution event since ChatGPT’s original launch. There’s no change to the non-exclusive nature of the deal: Apple’s existing OpenAI/ChatGPT integration remains untouched for now.
The Biggest Takeaways From Our July 2026 Gemini Update
The core story hasn’t changed since the spring, but every number underneath it has gotten bigger. The Gemini app has gone from 750 million to over 900 million monthly active users in about three months. Its global web traffic share has climbed past 27%, more than tripling in a year. Its mobile app share has been the steadiest of any major platform for six straight months, even as ChatGPT loses ground and Copilot collapses. And its total reach, once you add AI Overviews, AI Mode, Android, and the pending Apple integration, remains almost certainly the largest of any AI platform on Earth, notwithstanding ChatGPT’s continued lead on the narrower “standalone assistant” comparison.
Between Google’s continued dominance of the distribution layer and Anthropic’s newly-crowned position as the world’s most valuable private AI company, the assumption that OpenAI’s early lead was permanent looks weaker with every monthly update.
After more stats on other AI platforms and competitors? We’ve got more AI stats roundups here:
ChatGPT Stats | Claude AI Stats | Grok AI Stats | Perplexity AI Stats
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