ChatGPT’s cell app has generated $2B thus far, earns $2.91 per set up

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ChatGPT’s cell app has generated B thus far, earns .91 per set up



ChatGPT’s cell app is raking within the income.

Since launching in Might 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android gadgets has reached $2 billion in world shopper spending, in accordance with a brand new evaluation by app intelligence supplier Appfigures. That determine is roughly 30-times the mixed lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on cell, together with Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the evaluation signifies.

To this point this 12 months, ChatGPT’s cell app has made $1.35 billion, up 673 % year-over-year from the $174 million it made throughout the identical interval (January-July) in 2024, per the info. On common, the app is producing near $193 million monthly, up from $25 million final 12 months.

That’s considerably greater — or about 53-times greater — than ChatGPT’s subsequent nearest competitor, Grok, which made roughly $25.6 million this 12 months thus far. Grok’s common month-to-month shopper spending is estimated at $3.6 million, or 1.9% of ChatGPT’s.

This knowledge means that different shopper chatbots nonetheless have a option to go to meet up with ChatGPT’s dominance on cell gadgets, even when the numbers don’t present a whole image of the AI firms’ total income. Customers, groups, and companies also can subscribe to AI plans on the net, and the businesses generate income in different methods, too, like by way of their APIs.

Quite, this new knowledge affords a window into the apps’ traction with shoppers, who uncover and pay for these AI assistants by way of the cell app shops.

It’s additionally price noting that when xAI’s Grok launched in November 2023 (after ChatGPT), Grok didn’t initially have standalone iOS or Android apps. As an alternative, customers interacted with the AI chatbot by way of the X platform (previously Twitter). Grok solely turned accessible on cell gadgets by way of its personal iOS app as of early January 2025, and has been on Google Play since March 4.

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Nonetheless, ChatGPT’s lifetime world spending per obtain is $2.91, in comparison with Claude’s $2.55, Grok’s $0.75, and Copilot’s $0.28, Appfigures discovered.

Within the U.S., ChatGPT’s spending per obtain thus far is even greater, at $10, main the market to account for 38% of the app’s income thus far. Germany is the second-largest market, accounting for five.3% of ChatGPT’s lifetime complete spending.

ChatGPT’s lead may also be seen when it comes to downloads. So far, the app has been put in an estimated 690 million occasions globally, in contrast with Grok’s 39.5 million. (That places X proprietor Elon Musk’s latest complaints concerning the App Retailer’s alleged favoritism of ChatGPT in its High Charts into higher context.)

Common month-to-month downloads of ChatGPT globally are actually at roughly 45 million, up 180% from about 16 million in January by way of July of 2024.

In 2025 thus far, ChatGPT’s app has been downloaded 318 million occasions, or 2.8-times greater than the 113 million it noticed throughout the identical interval final 12 months. By the variety of installs, nonetheless, India is the highest market, accounting for 13.7% of lifetime downloads, in contrast with second place, the U.S., which accounted for 10.3% of all downloads.