Google’s Gemini hits 1 billion monthly active users in apps and on the web

Sundar Pichai just announced the new milestone, up from 950 million in July and 450 million a year before that. It’s the fastest growing Google service ever, and joins a host of 14 products crossing this line.

Gemini has grown steadily since 2025, according to web statistics service SimilarWeb, and now holds a 26.8% market share of web traffic to AI services, compared to ChatGPT’s 54.8% and Claude’s 9.7%.

On the occasion, Google’s Gemini VP Josh Woodward shared some usage tidbits, saying that 63% of interactions are from people using voice to talk to Gemini, and that 1 in 5 users use live camera feeds and screen sharing.

Gemini also generates over 150 million images every day, used more by businesses for marketing than for creating funny memes. Uploading attachments seems very popular by students, who do it 38% of the time.

Gemini is also plastered all over Google’s products and services in Workspaces, Google Search and all across Android. On Android, it can automate over 40 apps, which the EU is looking into, and they disclosed in 2025 that AI Overviews have over 2 billion monthly users. This headline number is however limited to the Gemini app and web service exclusively.

For comparison, OpenAI likely passed one billion weekly users in June 2026.

Read more: Sundar Pichai’s X post, Josh Woodward’s tidbits. Writeups on 9to5Google, The Verge, and Ars Technica.