Grok Usage Statistics: October 2026

Our research team spent the third quarter of 2026, from July 13 through September 30, measuring how people use Grok, the AI assistant built by xAI. The dataset combines web and app panel data covering grok.com and the Grok mobile app, usage data for the Grok features built into X, a survey of 1,860 Grok users in the U.S., the U.K. and India, and a classified sample of 286,000 anonymized prompts. We modeled and normalized these inputs so that each person counts once, however many ways they reach Grok.

Grok differs from most AI assistants in where people find it. Hundreds of millions of people see it inside X, where it answers questions about posts and live events, while others use it through its own app and website or in Tesla vehicles. In the sections below, we break down Grok’s user base, its growth since early 2025, the ways people reach it, where its users live, and what they ask it to do.

Grok Usage Overview

The table below gathers the core usage figures for Grok at the end of our study period, covering every way people use it: on X, in the Grok app, on grok.com and in Tesla vehicles.

Grok Usage Overview (September 2026)

Metric	Figure
Monthly active users, all access points	117.6 million
Quarter-over-quarter growth in monthly active users	3.0%
U.S. AI chatbot market share	3.4%
Monthly visits to grok.com	286 million
Share of monthly X users who also use Grok	22.6%
Paid SuperGrok subscribers	2.3 million
Average session length	7 minutes, 21 seconds
Share of Grok users who are male	74.8%

Our team took three main points from this data:

• We found that Grok’s 3.4% share of U.S. AI chatbot usage places it fourth, behind ChatGPT, Google Gemini (including AI Mode in Google Search) and Claude, and well ahead of Microsoft Copilot.
• Our data showed that only about 2% of monthly users pay for SuperGrok. Most people use the free tier, much of it through X, which keeps Grok’s audience large but its paying base small.
• Grok’s audience is far more male than that of other major assistants. Our survey found the gap widest among users who reach Grok mainly through X.

Grok Monthly Active Users, Q1 2025 to Q3 2026

Grok’s user base has grown in bursts, usually after a new model release or feature launch. The table below shows our estimate of Grok’s monthly active users in the final month of each quarter, followed by a graph of the same data.

Grok Monthly Active Users by Quarter

Quarter	Monthly Active Users	Change vs. Prior Quarter
Q1 2025	34.8 million	N/A
Q2 2025	47.3 million	+35.9%
Q3 2025	61.9 million	+30.9%
Q4 2025	83.5 million	+34.9%
Q1 2026	119.4 million	+43.0%
Q2 2026	114.2 million	-4.4%
Q3 2026	117.6 million	+3.0%

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the trend:

• Grok grew more than threefold from 34.8 million users in the first quarter of 2025 to 119.4 million in the first quarter of 2026, with the largest gains following the Grok 3 and Grok 4 releases.
• Users fell 4.4% in the second quarter of 2026, the only decline in our dataset. App downloads dropped sharply after a surge in January, and many of the users who arrived then did not stay.
• The third quarter brought a 3.0% recovery to 117.6 million, which still leaves Grok below its peak.

Grok Monthly Active Users by Access Point

People reach Grok in four main ways. To avoid counting anyone twice, our model assigns each user to the access point they used most often during the month. The table below shows the result, followed by a chart of each access point’s share.

Grok Monthly Active Users by Access Point (September 2026)

Access Point	Monthly Active Users	Share of Grok Users	Change vs. Prior Quarter	Average Sessions per User per Week
Grok on X	55.0 million	46.8%	-1.5%	4.6
Grok mobile app	33.3 million	28.3%	+11.3%	5.9
Grok.com	25.6 million	21.8%	+2.5%	3.8
Grok in Tesla vehicles	3.6 million	3.1%	+7.2%	2.7
All access points	117.6 million	100%	+3.0%	4.7

Three findings stood out to our team:

• X remains Grok’s largest entry point at 46.8% of users, but it was the only access point to lose users during the quarter, down 1.5%.
• The Grok mobile app grew fastest, up 11.3%, and its users opened Grok 5.9 times a week on average, more than users of any other access point.
• Grok in Tesla vehicles is small at 3.1% of users, but it is the only access point where most use happens by voice.

Grok Users by Country

Grok’s audience is more international than its American origins suggest. The table below shows the ten countries with the largest share of Grok’s monthly users, along with the share of each country’s monthly X users who also use Grok.

Grok Users by Country (September 2026)

Country	Share of Grok Users	Share of X Users Who Also Use Grok
United States	20.7%	31.4%
India	11.3%	18.2%
Brazil	4.9%	21.7%
Indonesia	3.8%	16.9%
Vietnam	3.6%	24.8%
United Kingdom	3.4%	22.3%
Japan	3.1%	13.6%
Philippines	2.7%	19.5%
Turkey	2.6%	17.1%
Mexico	2.4%	15.8%
All other countries	41.5%	N/A

Our team found three patterns in the country data:

• The United States accounts for 20.7% of Grok users, but the ten largest countries together make up only 58.5%. Grok’s audience is spread across many mid-sized markets.
• India is Grok’s second-largest market at 11.3% of users, driven mostly by questions asked in replies on X, often in Hindi and other regional languages.
• The United States also has the highest share of X users who use Grok, at 31.4%, followed by Vietnam at 24.8%.

How People Use Grok

We classified our sample of 286,000 anonymized prompts into eight task types. The table below shows each task’s share of prompts and the access point where it happens most often, followed by a chart of the same breakdown.

Grok Prompts by Task Type (September 2026)

Task Type	Share of Prompts	Access Point Where It Happens Most
Real-time news and current events	19.4%	Grok on X
General questions and research	17.2%	Grok.com
Image and video generation	15.8%	Grok mobile app
Fact-checking posts on X	11.6%	Grok on X
Entertainment and companion conversations	10.2%	Grok mobile app
Writing and editing	9.3%	Grok.com
Personal advice	8.4%	Grok mobile app
Writing and debugging code	8.1%	Grok.com

Here is what our researchers took from the breakdown:

• Real-time news and fact-checking posts on X together make up 31.0% of prompts, a far larger share of news-related use than we have measured for any other major assistant, including in our ChatGPT usage statistics.
• Image and video generation accounts for 15.8% of prompts, mostly in the Grok mobile app, where it is the single most common task.
• Coding makes up 8.1% of prompts, the smallest share of the eight task types. Developers in our survey said they use Grok for quick questions but rely on other tools for most programming work.

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