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5% -- paid user share for ChatGPT users (Plus/Pro premium subscribers) (2026)

Name: Paid User Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-06

2026 · media-company.eu

Approximately 5% of ChatGPT users pay for premium tiers such as Plus or Pro.

Reported as an approximate figure ('etwa 5 %')

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Last verified: 2026-09-06 · How we verify data →

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Data Vintage

2026

Entity

ChatGPT users (Plus/Pro premium subscribers)

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61/100 confidence

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media-company.eu Primary Tier C

https://www.media-company.eu/blog/chatgpt-ads-status-quo/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

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media-company.eu · Original study ↗

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Share of ChatGPT users paying for premium models such as Plus or Pro; reported as 'etwa' (about) 5%

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Industrymarketing

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ChatGPT users (Plus/Pro premium subscribers): 5% paid user share. Source: media-company.eu (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-paid-subscriber-share

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