OpenAI Says Users Send ChatGPT Over 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily

OpenAI said ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion queries every day. Recent data suggests that, every year, users send around 912.5 billion requests to the chatbot.

According to The Verge, Rob Friedlander, a spokesperson from OpenAI, has confirmed that users send billions of requests daily. In the past few months, the number of ChatGPT users has increased significantly.

In December, OpenAI said ChatGPT reached 300 million users, and by March this year, the company said it had surpassed 500 million users.

Of the 2.5 billion prompts sent to ChatGPT every day—according to data shared by Axios—around 13%, or 330 million, come from users in the United States.

🦾NEW @OpenAI data on ChatGPT, breaking in @axios AM:

• Globally, ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts each day
• 330 million (13%) are from U.S.
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— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) July 21, 2025

The impressive user adoption of ChatGPT in the past few months has sparked debate and raised questions regarding the future of online search and the dominance of tech giant Google. OpenAI announced a few days ago that it will release an AI-powered browser soon. This new platform is expected to compete directly with other popular browsers such as Google Chrome.

According to TechRadar, Google hasn’t disclosed its users’ daily search queries, but experts estimate that it can be around 14 billion daily searches—still significantly higher than ChatGPT’s 2.5 billion queries, but gained after decades of operation.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has only disclosed that its search engine gets around five trillion queries per year.

Expert’s concern over OpenAI’s rapid growth for achieving long-term results is its sustainability, as the company has been struggling to become profitable. However, OpenAI has been implementing different strategies to remain one of the leading companies in the industry.

In May, OpenAI announced its final corporate structure, keeping its nonprofit entity as the controlling stakeholder and turning its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).