AI Safety Tracker

AI usage: tokens and users

17 disclosed volumes 4 of 8 developers 9 user counts

Aggregate token counts stated by 4 AI companies, normalised to tokens per month, with disclosed user counts and published shares of use by topic.

Largest disclosed volume: ByteDance, Doubao models Converted to a month by this site: a daily figure times 30.44. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

5.5quadrillion tokens a month

Stated as over 180 trillion tokens a day, June 2026. Company statement, as reported by the press.

Google, across every product The multiple is computed by this site from Google's own two figures. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

3.2quadrillion a month

May 2026, 6.7 times the figure for April 2025. Search, the Gemini app and the API are not reported separately.

OpenAI's API AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

15billion tokens a minute

March 2026, about 657 trillion a month. ChatGPT is not included.

Developers that have published a token volume None found in the company's own publications at the review date. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

4 of 8

Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta and xAI have published none. Microsoft has published none since fiscal 2025.

Largest disclosed audience: Google AI Overviews AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

2.5billion monthly users

May 2026. People shown an AI summary at the top of a Search result, not people who chose an assistant. ChatGPT: 1.2 billion weekly users.

Tokens processed, as each company states it

Every aggregate token count a company has published or stated, converted to Tokens per month A disclosed token volume converted to a month by this site, so that per-minute, per-day and per-year figures can be drawn on one axis. A quarterly or annual total becomes a monthly average and is marked as one. Glossary entry . Logarithmic: each step of the axis is ten times the one below it.

1 trillion10 trillion100 trillion1 quadrillion10 quadrillion202420252026ByteDance, Doubao models: 4 trillion tokens a day (December 2024), about 122 trillion a month. Volcano Engine FORCE conference.ByteDance, Doubao models: over 50 trillion tokens a day (December 2025), about 1.5 quadrillion a month. Volcano Engine FORCE conference.ByteDance, Doubao models: over 120 trillion tokens a day (March 2026), about 3.7 quadrillion a month. Volcano Engine statement.ByteDance, Doubao models: over 180 trillion tokens a day (June 2026), about 5.5 quadrillion a month. Volcano Engine FORCE conference.ByteDance, Doubao modelsGoogle, all products: 9.7 trillion tokens a month (April 2024), about 9.7 trillion a month. Google I/O keynote.Google, all products: over 480 trillion tokens a month (April 2025), about 480 trillion a month. Google I/O keynote.Google, all products: over 980 trillion monthly tokens (July 2025), about 980 trillion a month. Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings call.Google, all products: over 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens (October 2025), about 1.3 quadrillion a month. Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings call.Google, all products: over 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month (May 2026), about 3.2 quadrillion a month. Google I/O keynote.Google, all productsGoogle, API only: 7 billion tokens per minute (October 2025), about 307 trillion a month. Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings call.Google, API only: over 10 billion tokens per minute (February 2026), about 438 trillion a month. Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call.Google, API only: more than 16 billion tokens per minute (April 2026), about 701 trillion a month. Alphabet Q1 2026 earnings call.Google, API only: 22 billion tokens per minute (July 2026), about 964 trillion a month. Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings call.Google, API onlyOpenAI, API only: over 6 billion tokens per minute (October 2025), about 263 trillion a month. OpenAI DevDay keynote.OpenAI, API only: more than 15 billion tokens per minute (March 2026), about 657 trillion a month. OpenAI funding announcement.OpenAI, API onlyMicrosoft, Foundry: a record 50 trillion tokens last month (March 2025), about 50 trillion a month. Microsoft FY25 Q3 earnings call.Microsoft, Foundry: over 500 trillion this year (June 2025), about 42 trillion a month on average. Microsoft FY25 Q4 earnings call.Microsoft, Foundry
Google Other companies, by shade Dashed: API or platform only Hollow: average over a year Each point is a statement by the company. Per-minute and per-day rates converted to a month by this site. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.
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The latest disclosed token volume for each series, what it counts, and the developers that have published none.
Series What is counted As stated Per month Period Source
ByteDance, Doubao models Daily token use of ByteDance's Doubao model family, as stated by its cloud unit Volcano Engine. Whether ByteDance's own apps are included is not stated. over 180 trillion tokens a day 5.5 quadrillion Jun 2026 Volcano Engine FORCE conference , press report
Google, all products Every Google product and API: Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, the Gemini app, Workspace, YouTube and Cloud. No split by product is published. over 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month 3.2 quadrillion May 2026 Google I/O keynote
Google, API only Google's own models called directly through its API by customers. 22 billion tokens per minute 964 trillion Jul 2026 Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings call
OpenAI, API only OpenAI's API. ChatGPT, its largest product, is not included. more than 15 billion tokens per minute 657 trillion Mar 2026 OpenAI funding announcement
Microsoft, Foundry Tokens processed through Microsoft's model platform, Foundry. Aggregate figures stopped after fiscal 2025; later calls report customer counts only. over 500 trillion this year 42 trillion (average) Jun 2025 Microsoft FY25 Q4 earnings call
Anthropic Publishes use by task in the Anthropic Economic Index, but no volume. None found - - -
DeepSeek No volume or user count found. None found - - -
Meta Publishes a monthly user count for Meta AI, but no volume. None found - - -
xAI States a monthly user count for Grok in SpaceX's IPO filing, but no volume. None found - - -
Every disclosed figure 17
Every disclosed token volume, by series and date.
Series As stated Per month Period Stated at
ByteDance, Doubao models over 180 trillion tokens a day 5.5 quadrillion Jun 2026 Volcano Engine FORCE conference, press report
ByteDance, Doubao models over 120 trillion tokens a day 3.7 quadrillion Mar 2026 Volcano Engine statement, press report
ByteDance, Doubao models over 50 trillion tokens a day 1.5 quadrillion Dec 2025 Volcano Engine FORCE conference, press report
ByteDance, Doubao models 4 trillion tokens a day 122 trillion Dec 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE conference, press report
Google, all products over 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month 3.2 quadrillion May 2026 Google I/O keynote
Google, all products over 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens 1.3 quadrillion Oct 2025 Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings call
Google, all products over 980 trillion monthly tokens 980 trillion Jul 2025 Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings call
Google, all products over 480 trillion tokens a month 480 trillion Apr 2025 Google I/O keynote
Google, all products 9.7 trillion tokens a month 9.7 trillion Apr 2024 Google I/O keynote
Google, API only 22 billion tokens per minute 964 trillion Jul 2026 Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings call
Google, API only more than 16 billion tokens per minute 701 trillion Apr 2026 Alphabet Q1 2026 earnings call
Google, API only over 10 billion tokens per minute 438 trillion Feb 2026 Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call
Google, API only 7 billion tokens per minute 307 trillion Oct 2025 Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings call
OpenAI, API only more than 15 billion tokens per minute 657 trillion Mar 2026 OpenAI funding announcement
OpenAI, API only over 6 billion tokens per minute 263 trillion Oct 2025 OpenAI DevDay keynote, press report
Microsoft, Foundry over 500 trillion this year 42 trillion (average) Jun 2025 Microsoft FY25 Q4 earnings call
Microsoft, Foundry a record 50 trillion tokens last month 50 trillion Mar 2025 Microsoft FY25 Q3 earnings call

No two series count the same thing. Google's all-product figure includes Search, where AI Overviews and AI Mode answer queries by default, and Google does not report how much of the total Search accounts for. OpenAI's figure excludes ChatGPT. ByteDance's figures are known from press reports of its cloud unit's conference statements. A token is not a fixed unit either: each company uses its own tokeniser, and an image or a second of video can be hundreds of tokens, so growth driven by video inflates a count faster than growth in text. Months are the period each figure describes; several were announced a month or two later. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

Who uses them

Disclosed user counts per product, largest first. Weekly and monthly counts are different measures and are labelled.

Disclosed users per AI product, largest first, with whether each is counted weekly or monthly and when.
Product Users Counted As of Users, relative
Google AI Overviews 2.5 billion monthly May 2026
ChatGPT 1.2 billion weekly Sept 2026
Google AI Mode 1 billion monthly May 2026
Meta AI 1 billion monthly May 2025
Gemini app 950 million monthly Jul 2026
Microsoft AI features 900 million monthly Oct 2025
Microsoft Copilot family 150 million monthly Oct 2025
Grok 117 million monthly Mar 2026
GitHub Copilot 50 million period not stated Jul 2026

The counts measure different things. AI Overviews counts people shown an AI summary at the top of a Search result, and Meta AI counts people reached inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, where the assistant is built into search and chat. ChatGPT is counted weekly, which is a stricter test than monthly. Microsoft's 900 million counts every AI feature across its products together. Grok's count is of X and Grok users who used its AI features. No user count was found for Anthropic or DeepSeek. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

What the tokens are for

Shares of use by topic or task, as each study states them. Each study counts a different unit, and none counts tokens.

  • 4.2% of ChatGPT consumer messages were computer programming, June 2025
  • 35% of Claude.ai conversations were computer and mathematical tasks, February 2026
  • just under half of Claude API transcripts were computer and mathematical tasks, August 2025
Published shares of use by product, unit, topic or task, and period.
Product Share of Topic or task Share Share, relative Period
ChatGPT consumer messages Practical guidance about 29% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Seeking information about 24% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Writing about 24% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Computer programming 4.2% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Relationships and personal reflection 1.9% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Games and role-play 0.4% Jun 2025
ChatGPT consumer messages Not related to work 73% Jun 2025
ChatGPT work-related consumer messages Writing about 40% Jun 2025
Claude.ai conversations Computer and mathematical tasks 35% Feb 2026
Claude.ai conversations Personal use 42% Feb 2026
Claude.ai conversations Coursework 12% Feb 2026
Claude API transcripts Computer and mathematical tasks just under half Aug 2025
Claude API transcripts Office and administrative tasks about 10% Aug 2025
Claude API transcripts Automation patterns 77% Aug 2025

ChatGPT's shares come from a sample of consumer messages classified by topic, published as NBER working paper 34255; its three largest topics together make up nearly four fifths of messages. Claude's come from the Anthropic Economic Index, which maps sampled conversations to occupational tasks, so coding appears as computer and mathematical tasks. The two populations differ as well as the units: a consumer chatbot and a developer's API draw different users for different work. The only public per-model and per-purpose token counts come from OpenRouter, a service that routes developers' requests to many models, and measure only its own traffic. They are not plotted here: no permission to reuse them could be verified. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Licence MIT Updated quarterly Retrieved , 5 days ago Data 3 datasets Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

What this page cannot show

Questions a reader brings that no published source answers.

  • Tokens by model

    No developer publishes volume per model. Companies attribute growth to model families in prose, without numbers.

  • Search's share of Google's total

    Google reports one figure across every product. How much of it is AI Overviews and AI Mode is not published.

  • 4 developers with no figure

    Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta and xAI publish no token volume.

  • Energy per token

    Published per prompt by three developers, and by none per token.

    Environment
  • A common unit

    Tokenisers differ between companies, and image and video tokens are counted alongside text. There is no conversion between one company's token and another's.