Google's Gemini app nips at ChatGPT's heels as it nears 1 billion users

Google's Gemini AI app has reached 950 million monthly active users, nearing OpenAI's ChatGPT which has around 1 billion monthly users, according to CEO Sundar Pichai who also said daily active users have tripled in the past year. Google has rolled out new models including the Gemini 3.6 Flash model, which is more cost-effective for tasks like coding, while its 3.5 Pro model remains delayed.

Google's Gemini is nearing the big One Billion. The company said on Wednesday that the Gemini AI app now has 950 million monthly active users. On the earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai also said that daily active users have tripled in the past year. That puts it close behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has around 1 billion monthly users https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-projects-chatgpt-ad-growth-market-doubts-2026-7 per recent data from Sensor Tower. To track Google's trajectory here, it said in October that the Gemini app https://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-closing-the-gap-on-chatgpt-2025-10 was seeing around 650 million monthly active users. In February, reporting its Q4 2025 earnings, Google said https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc financials/2025/q4/2025q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf that figure had risen to over 750 million. Google has been rolling out more cost-friendly and faster models. This week, it rolled out three models, including its Gemini 3.6 Flash model https://www.businessinsider.com/google-gemini-35-pro-flash-cyber-lite-speed-token-price-2026-7 , which the company said is better at tasks such as coding than its predecessor while using fewer tokens, making it more cost-effective. Google's new frontier 3.5 Pro model https://www.businessinsider.com/rivals-mock-google-gemini-3-5-pro-delay-2026-7 is still delayed, even as Google this week teased that early work on Gemini 4 had started. These latest user numbers on Gemini suggest that it's still scooping up users quite nicely.