This is how much OpenAI earns.
In reality, only a fraction of active users pay for a subscription. As of 2026, OpenAI reports having roughly 1 billion weekly active users and 50 million paying consumer subscribers across all tiers.
This represents a paid conversion rate of about 5%.
If we apply this 5% benchmark to your 40 million active users:
• Paying Users (5%): 2 million users
• Free Users (95%): 38 million users
1. Revenue from Paying Users:
• 2,000,000 users × $20/month = $40 million
2. Revenue from Free Users (Ad-Supported):
OpenAI's free tier monetization via advertisements generates an estimated run rate of under $1 per user per year (approx. $0.08 per user per month).
• 38,000,000 users × $0.08/month = $3.04 million
• Total Estimated Monthly Revenue: $43.04 million
Rich for a startup?
Day 3/
The big one is GPT-6 in Chat, but today is also a little celebration day with a new high of 40M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work.
Loading a banked reset in everyone's paid accounts. See you again tomorrow!