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

• Google said its Gemini app now has 950 million monthly active users.
• It's been increasing steadily over the past year. Now it's closing in on ChatGPT.
• Google has been rolling out more efficient, cost-effective models.

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 per recent data from Sensor Tower.

To track Google's trajectory here, it said in October that the Gemini app was seeing around 650 million monthly active users. In February, reporting its Q4 2025 earnings, Google said 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, 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 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.