ChatGPT has more paying subscribers than Twitter Blue as of March 1st 2023.

The information reported that it obtained an internal document, on Feb 6, 2023, from Twitter, which put the total number of Twitter Blue ($8/ months) subscribers at 180,000. [1]

The business of apps reported that as of Feb 2023, ChatGPT had 100 Million users. [2]

With 667M visits in Dec 2022, 893M visits in Jan 2023, OpenAI moved to over 1 Billion visits in Feb. [3]

Not surprisingly the audience skews heavily US (20%), young (61% are under 35) and mostly male (61%) of the 100M.

Among the top 5 people profiles, 1/ students, 2/ teachers, 3/ marketers, 4/ content writers, 5/ software programmers make up over 52% of the users.

So to find out who’s paying for ChatGPT we need to triage information from multiple sources since OpenAI has not shared the number of paid users. ChatGPT Plus ($20 / month) was introduced on Feb 1, 2023. [4]

According to a survey of developers on Feb 6th, nearly 7% of them were willing to pay for ChatGPT [5]. Multiple surveys reveal the number of paying subscribers it far less than 1%.

Doing the math with number of people by role and the conversion rate, I estimate the number of paying users to be 215K, which is more than Twitter Blue subscribers.