B
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6%
6% -- paid subscription adoption rate for ChatGPT (OpenAI) (Q2 2026)
More than 6% of surveyed U.S. consumers and workers who use AI reported paying for ChatGPT.
- Reported as 'more than 6%'
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Value
6%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
Q2 2026
Entity
Sample Size
260,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Recon Analytics
Primary
Tier B
https://512pixels.net/2026/05/grok-is-the-rc-cola-of-the-ai-world/ ↗
Source Article
‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World
Joe Wilkins, writing at Futurism:
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of AI.” These are Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta — giant tech monopolies which happen to also be four of the six top US corporations by market value.
Then there are the …
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Recon Analytics
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Methodology
Recon Analytics survey of more than 260,000 U.S. consumers and workers who use AI; share of respondents who said they paid for ChatGPT. Reported as 'more than 6%' — a floor value. For comparison, Grok's paid share in the same survey was 0.174%.
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ChatGPT (OpenAI): 6% paid subscription adoption rate. Source: Recon Analytics (Q2 2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-paid-subscriber-share-q2-2026
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