ChatGPT mobile app hits new milestone of $3 billion in consumer spending

ChatGPT has hit a new milestone of $3 billion in worldwide consumer spending on mobile as of this week, according to estimates from the app intelligence provider. Application forms. This number represents the total spending on iOS and Android devices since the app launched in May 2023, when it first arrived, then on iOS only.

What is striking is that the bulk of this spending occurred this year. Worldwide, consumers spent an estimated US$2.48 billion on the ChatGPT mobile app in 2025, representing a 408% year-over-year increase from the US$487 million spent in 2024. In 2023, the first year of the app’s availability, the app generated US$42.9 million, before growing 1,036% to the 2024 number.

These numbers represent a sharp rise in consumer adoption, compared to other popular apps. For example, it took ChatGPT 31 months to reach $3 billion in consumer spending, but TikTok, the top earner, took 58 months to do so, Appfigures told TechCrunch.

ChatGPT also reached this milestone faster than top streaming apps like Disney+ and HBO Max, which reached $3 billion in 42 months and 46 months, respectively.

However, xAI’s Grok is seeing a similar revenue trajectory to ChatGPT, compared to other AI competitors.

Your puppy has been released in Late 2023 for X Premium Plus subscribers Before it becomes More widely available last year. But if you compare the pace of consumer spending across AI applications, you’ll find that Grok comes closest to matching ChatGPT’s cumulative revenue at the same point, once it started monetizing. (You can see this in the chart below, which shows AI app spending corresponding to when each app started generating income.)

While the $3 billion in spending represents significant uptake by consumers, it is not the only way to measure adoption of AI applications or potential long-term revenue.

ChatGPT mobile customers purchase paid subscriptions, such as ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month or ChatGPT Pro at $200 per month for advanced users. But AI applications can generate revenue in other ways, including through developer offerings and, Maybe soon for ChatGPTadvertisements. Additionally, ChatGPT on Wednesday launched its own app store of sorts, which the company suggests will be monetized in some way in the future. Her blog post was referenced.

Meanwhile, Google is exploring the possibility of shifting its healthy search advertising business to AI-powered search and placing ads there. Artificial intelligence fashion, Overviews of artificial intelligence, Artificial intelligence shoppingand increasingly AI discovery pageamong other things.

Anthropy is aimed at the business market and it is It is reportedly on track for $70 billion in revenue by 2028.