How much money can OpenAI make from ChatGPT with 100 million free users?

It is learned that OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused quite a stir online, from marketing fire to online retail , prompting the technology company to launch a subscription service. ChatGPT Plus has been released in the United States for $20 (£16) per month, providing subscribers with many services, including general access to ChatGPT (even during peak hours), faster response times, and priority access to new features and improvements.

ChatGPT has about 100 million free users, according to Reddot co-founder Pierre Herubel, who posted on LinkedIn that the freemium to paid conversion rate is about 1-5%, Spotify: 27%, Evernote: 4.1%, Dropbox: 4%, Google Drive: 0.5%.

This means that OpenAI’s monthly recurring revenue (MRR) will be $20,000,000 per month based on the 1 million subscriber estimate. On this basis, OpenAI can earn at least $240 million per year in the first year.

However, Herubel believes that due to the hype, a large number of users will try ChatGPT in the first year, but a large amount of traffic also means a high churn rate, predicting that ChatGPT will have a churn rate of about 8%.

Herubel added: “I did a rough calculation and took 8% of annual sales, $240 million – 8% = $220.8 million. This is a simple calculation based on the data available on the Internet. However, since the actual operation is much more complicated, the final result may be distorted, so let time answer it.”

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