--- title: Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in... description: Gemini's app passed a billion monthly active users, a milestone Sundar Pichai called Google's fastest-growing product ever. But ChatGPT hit the same monthly... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gemini-has-a-billion-monthly-users-chatgpt-hit-that-in-june-and-moved-the-goalposts-dqvup9fvu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts | daily.dev og:description: Gemini's app passed a billion monthly active users, a milestone Sundar Pichai called Google's fastest-growing product ever. But ChatGPT hit the same monthly... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gemini-has-a-billion-monthly-users-chatgpt-hit-that-in-june-and-moved-the-goalposts-dqvup9fvu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dqVuP9fVu.png og:image:alt: Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gemini's app passed a billion monthly active users, a milestone Sundar Pichai called Google's fastest-growing product ever. But ChatGPT hit the same monthly threshold in June, ten weeks earlier, and OpenAI has since moved to a harder metric, weekly active users, which it crossed a billion of in July. ChatGPT's weekly growth has actually slowed, taking five months to add its last 100 million weekly users, while Gemini added 50 million in two weeks. The billion figure excludes Gemini usage inside Search's AI Mode, Gmail, Docs, and Android, and counts anyone who opened the app even once in a month. Gemini's next Pro model has slipped past its promised June release after coding performance fell short internally, even as Google trains Gemini 4 amid a leadership reshuffle at DeepMind. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many monthly users does the Gemini app have now compared to ChatGPT? The Gemini app passed a billion monthly users on August 11, ten weeks after ChatGPT reached the same monthly milestone on June 3. However, OpenAI has since moved past that metric, reaching a billion weekly active users in July, a harder benchmark that measures habitual use rather than occasional visits, which Gemini has not yet reported. _daily.dev readers weighing AI assistant adoption trends can track how these growth metrics evolve over time._ ### Why isn't comparing Gemini's billion monthly users to ChatGPT's billion monthly users a fair comparison? Because the two milestones aren't on the same footing: Gemini rides distribution through Android, Search, Chrome, and Workspace, products that already had a billion users each, while ChatGPT had to be sought out independently with no built-in distribution. Additionally, Gemini's monthly count excludes usage inside AI Mode in Search, Gmail, Docs, and Android, understating its true reach while ChatGPT already reports a separate, harder weekly-user figure. _Developers evaluating AI platforms can follow daily.dev for context behind headline user-growth comparisons._ ### Has ChatGPT's user growth slowed down recently? Yes, ChatGPT's weekly active users grew from 900 million in February to a billion in July, meaning it took five months to add the last hundred million weekly users. By contrast, Gemini added 50 million monthly users in just a fortnight, suggesting Google's growth curve is accelerating while OpenAI's is flattening. _Those tracking momentum shifts between AI competitors can follow ongoing coverage on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users-ocbucfzo9) · TechCrunch · 12 upvotes · 1 comments - [Google's Gemini nears billion-user milestone](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-gemini-nears-billion-user-milestone-boymzn5yc) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [ChatGPT nears 1bn weekly users, seven months late](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-nears-1bn-weekly-users-seven-months-late-d8opuwxky) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users-as3udsmzq) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ChatGPT smashes through a billion monthly users](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-smashes-through-a-billion-monthly-users-qdobmrilc) · TechCentral · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#google-gemini](https://daily.dev/tags/google-gemini) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/gemini-has-a-billion-monthly-users-chatgpt-hit-that-in-june-and-moved-the-goalposts-dqvup9fvu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Gemini has a billion monthly users. 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