Three AI giants in numbers: Copilot has 30M seats, Gemini 1B users

The battle between the three big AI assistants revolves around two different numbers that are easy to confuse: paying workplaces and ordinary users.

Copilot: Paid seats at work

At its earnings report on July 30, 2026, Microsoft said Microsoft 365 Copilot now has 30 million paid seats. A seat is a license a company pays for so an employee can use Copilot in, for example, Word, Excel and Teams. The figure is 50 percent more than the 20 million Microsoft reported the quarter before.

Copilot's total user count is harder to pin down. According to a comparison from Tech-Insider, the numbers range from 33 to 420 million, depending on which Microsoft products are counted. So it is not a figure directly comparable with Gemini and ChatGPT.

Gemini: Over 1 billion a month

Google confirmed on August 11, 2026, that the Gemini app has more than 1 billion monthly active users. A few weeks earlier, in July, the figure was 950 million. That is almost a tripling in a year.

Gemini is built into Google's own services such as Gmail, Docs and Sheets, so many people encounter it in tools they already use.

ChatGPT: Also around 1 billion

ChatGPT had 900 million weekly users in February 2026, and according to one of the sources reviewed, the app passed 1 billion monthly users in June. The figure comes from secondary sources, so take it with a grain of salt.

What does it mean for you?

The comparison shows two strategies. Gemini and ChatGPT win by reaching completely ordinary users. Copilot is betting on getting into workplaces, where companies pay per employee. If you use Office every day at work, it is therefore most likely Copilot you will be offered. At home, it is more often Gemini or ChatGPT.

Be careful about comparing the figures directly: paid seats, monthly users and weekly users do not measure the same thing.