We heard today that OpenAI will launch a $20 a month tier for ChatGPT, its chatbot service. This premium service offering higher uptime and new features will only launch in the US. Other users will have more limited access to the system.
How much is this premium offering likely to make?
According to estimates from SimilarWeb, ChatGPT hit 100m active users in January. This represents the fastest growth of any Internet product, well ever, really. SimilarWeb further reckons that roughly 20% of visitors to ChatGPT are from the US.
SimilarWeb’s data for December suggests a 7 minute average duration for a visit. This compared healthily to Facebook, at 9.5 minutes and Wikipedia at nearly 4 minutes, but was far behind YouTube at 20 minutes or Google at more than 10.
December’s 266m visits came from around 13m visitors, suggesting about 20 visits …