ChatGPT now handles 1.7 million requests every minute

OpenAI recently told Axios that their AI tool ChatGPT handles over 2.5 billion user instructions every single day. That’s the equivalent of about 1.7 million instructions per minute or 29,000 per second.

This is a stark increase from December 2024, when ChatGPT was handling about 1 billion messages per day. Having launched in November 2022, it’s become one of the fastest growing consumer apps of all time.

In comparison, Google’s search engine handles around 14 billion searches daily. Sure, the services fulfill different purposes so it isn’t an apples-to-oranges comparison, but it’s a neat comparison nonetheless. (Google mainly presents links to web pages while ChatGPT directly “converses” with users and helps perform tasks.)