> just three years- around 900 million users on a weekly basis.

Well, I rotate about a dozen of free accounts because I don't want to send 1 cent their way, I imagine I'm not the only one. I do the same for gemini, claude and deepseek, so all in all I account for like 50 "unique" weekly users

Apparently they have about 5% of paying customers, the amount of total users is meaningless, it just tells you how much money they burn and isn't an indication of anything else.

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throw310822 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I rotate about a dozen of free accounts .. I do the same for gemini, claude and deepseek

For someone who doesn't like the product and doesn't care about it, you surely make a lot of effort to use it.

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lm28469 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Sometime you have to force the trickle down economy a bit, these people are destroying my industry I might as well cost them as much as possible before I have no choice but to move on.

It's also literally 0 effort, click > sign out > click > sign in. It saves me $200 a month, that's not too far from half of my rent

	▲	throw310822 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can understand the spirit, though this reinforces my impression that the product is so good that people jump through hoops to use it, even if they hate it in principle. If they suddenly cut off any free access to it, how much would you be willing to pay per month to keep using it? One dollar? Ten? Twenty? Also, maybe I'm missing something, but no amount of free accounts on ChatGPT gives you what you get with a paid subscription, especially with a $200 one; and there's paid plans from just $8/month.

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mikkupikku 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that users who put that much effort into using this stuff for free, using a dozen different accounts, are very rare.