SAN FRANCISCO–Consumers have spent more than $3 billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app in the roughly 31 months since the app was launched, according to a new report.
Most of that total, $2.5 billion, was spent in 2025 alone, mobile analytics and intelligence platform Appfigures said, noting the 2025 total is 408% higher than 2024’s.
The speed with which the ChatGPT mobile app reached the $3 billion milestone in mobile consumer spending was faster than TikTok and major streaming apps, Appfigures said in a post on X.
Appfigures had earlier reported in August that the ChatGPT mobile app was earning more than six times as much revenue as it did last year.
Through July, the AI chatbot app for iOS and Android devices had made $1.35 billion this year, up from the $174 million it made during the same seventh-month period in 2024, the report stated, noting the second-ranked app in this category, xAI’s Grok, made $25.6 million during the first seven months of 2025.
Figure is Likely Larger
According to Appfigures, the numbers cited in the August report include only the spending of consumers who paid for these AI assistants via a mobile app store; they do not include subscriptions on the web or the AI companies’ other sources of revenue.
As the CU Daily reported earlier, that OpenAI expects ChatGPT to have at least 220 million paid subscribers by 2030, up from its current 35 million today.
