- OpenAI took a year to make its first billion – now it makes twice that every month
- It has 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, 50 million subscribers and 2 million weekly Codex users
- Enterprises account for around 40% of OpenAI's revenue as it continues to grow out data center infrastructure
OpenAI might not (yet) be a publicly trading company, but the ChatGPT maker has given us one of our biggest insights into revenue to date, claiming it generates around $2 billion in revenue every single month.
The growth is largely driven by enterprise adoption and API usage, but regular ChatGPT subscriptions also weigh in on the monthly figure as well.
Confirmation comes amid plans to "accelerate the next phase of AI" – the company just closed its most recent funding round of $122 billion to help build out infrastructure, backed by Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, Microsoft and others.
OpenAI shares a glimpse into its finances
Besides banking channels, OpenAI also welcomes over $3 billion in personal cash investments from unnamed individuals.
As for the company in its current state, there are more than 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users, 50 million of whom are paying subscribers. "ChatGPT has 6x the monthly web visits and mobile sessions than the next largest AI app, while total AI time spent is 4x the next largest AI app and 4x all others combined," the company boasted.
Within six weeks of launching its ads pilot, OpenAI brought in more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, but it's enterprise customers that are the company's most lucrative money-maker, accounting for two-fifths of total revenue.
"Our APIs now process more than 15 billion tokens per minute. Codex now serves over 2 million weekly users, up 5x in the past three months," the company added.
Looking back, it took a full year since launching ChatGPT for OpenAI to make its first billion in revenue – a figure it was making quarterly, not annually, one year later.
Looking ahead, OpenAI's next stages are to continue work on an 'AI superapp' to combine ChatGPT, Codex, browsing and other agentic AI.
Though OpenAI has not officially announced an IPO date or filing, the last year has been filled with rumors of the company listing publicly. However, while revenue is soaring, profitability is not so clear, and the company could be waiting to build bigger margins before it expands into the public eye.
