Hajra Naz
ChatGPT now handles 2.5 billion prompts every day, according to OpenAI in a statement to Axios. Of that total, around 330 million come from U.S. users alone.
These numbers show how deeply embedded ChatGPT is becoming in daily online activity—not just in the U.S., but worldwide.
For comparison, Google gets around 13–16 billion searches per day, depending on the source. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hasn’t shared official daily numbers. But it recently said that Google processes 5 trillion searches per year, which averages out to just under 14 billion a day.
Independent researchers have backed that up. Neil Patel’s NP Digital estimates 13.7 billion daily searches. Others, like SparkToro and Datos, put the number closer to 16.4 billion.
While ChatGPT still trails behind Google in total volume, its growth is fast. In December 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot was getting 1 billion daily queries. That means usage has more than doubled in just eight months.
In a crowded AI race, that kind of growth is hard to ignore.
