In August 2026, Google reported more than 1 billion monthly active users of the Gemini app. That figure describes the app. AI Overviews, API activity, and visits to the Gemini website are different measurements.
Here are the main user, product, and financial figures with their observation periods. Company claims, estimates, and forecasts are kept separate.
- Google reported more than 1 billion monthly active Gemini app users on August 11, 2026.
- Similarweb's latest estimate, for September 2026 (update of October 12), put Gemini's share of selected AI chatbot website traffic at 25.0%. This is not a user share.
- Alphabet raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $195 billion to $205 billion in July. It covers the whole company, not just Gemini or AI.
1. How many people use the Gemini app?
Google reported more than 400 million monthly active app users on May 20, 2025. The published milestones rose to more than 450 million on July 23, 2025, more than 650 million on October 29, 2025, and more than 750 million on February 4, 2026. On May 19, 2026, Google reported more than 900 million; on July 22, 950 million; and on August 11, more than 1 billion. The chart uses each announcement date.
gradually.aiSources: Google I/O 2025, Alphabet Q2 2025 CEO remarks, Alphabet Q3 2025 CEO remarks, Alphabet Q4 2025 CEO remarks, Gemini app announcement, May 2026, Alphabet Q2 2026 CEO remarks, Gemini app announcement, August 2026
The MAU figures are thresholds reported by Google, except for the rounded 950 million figure reported in July. Google said there were more than 100 million active iOS users but did not specify an activity window. That figure cannot be classified as MAU or added to the app total. On August 11, Google also reported generating more than 150 million images per day. In July, it said daily active app users had tripled year over year, but it did not publish an absolute DAU count (Google, August 11, 2026; Alphabet, July 22, 2026).
2. Website visits are not user counts
Similarweb estimates visits to gemini.google.com. A visit is a session, not a uniquely identified person. The figure also does not automatically include mobile app use. Monthly website visits and monthly active app users therefore cannot be combined into one series. Similarweb explains its Monthly Visits measure.
3. Where do Gemini users live?
Country shares from a website traffic estimate describe visits to the gemini.google.com domain. They do not show how Gemini app users are distributed by country. The Google product sources linked here give availability lists, which are different from a country breakdown of app users.
4. Where is Gemini available, and which languages does it support?
Google lists the web app in more than 230 countries and territories. The Gemini mobile apps are available in more than 150 countries. These lists cover different products and may differ. Google Help has separate lists for the web app and the mobile app.
German and English appear in Google's list of supported web languages. The official help pages give different totals, however. The English version says more than 70 languages, while the French and Czech versions say more than 40. Those pages do not support one consistent total (French and Czech Google Help).
Google says the mobile app is for people aged 13 or older, or the applicable local age. Age and account rules for individual features and paid plans can differ.
5. Gemini API and developer activity
In July 2026, Google said more than 9 million developers worked each month with its models, APIs, and key developer products. That figure does not cover only the Gemini API. Google said its model APIs processed about 22 billion tokens per minute, up from 16 billion the previous quarter (Alphabet Q2 2026 CEO remarks).
At Google I/O in May 2026, Sundar Pichai also said Google processed more than 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month across its products and APIs. Google compared this with seven times the prior year's volume. This covers several Google services and is not a Gemini API request count (Google I/O 2026).
Tokens per minute and API requests per month are different units. A token rate cannot be converted to a request count because request length and token usage vary.
6. Gemini coding products in a developer survey
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026 asked respondents which coding agents and assistants they had used in the past year. Among 12,255 respondents, 14.6% named Gemini Code Assist and 16.0% named Google Antigravity. These results describe developer products among survey respondents, not Gemini app use in the general population.
Respondents could select more than one product, so the percentages add up to more than 100%. Source: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026.
7. Use of Gemini features in Google Search
Google reported more than 2.5 billion monthly active users for AI Overviews in May 2026. In July 2026, the company reported more than 1 billion monthly active users for AI Mode. Both figures concern features in Google Search, not the Gemini app (Google I/O 2026; Alphabet Q2 2026 CEO remarks).
The audiences may overlap. App, AI Overview, and AI Mode users should not be added together as a total.
8. Gemini 3.8 Flash: context window and benchmarks
The Google Cloud guide lists Gemini 3.8 Flash as generally available. Released September 2, 2026. Multimodal Flash model with a 1,048,576-token context window, up to 65,536 output tokens, and three reasoning levels. Google does not publish its parameter count or architecture.
The central model record lists a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (Google Gemini API). Google's model card gives a March 2026 knowledge cutoff, while noting that the model's knowledge for some areas may only extend to January 2025. The context window is separate: it describes how many tokens one request can contain (Google DeepMind).
Google's sources report different Terminal-Bench 2.1 results: the Cloud developer guide lists 90.8% versus 81.6%, while the model card lists 89.4% versus 85.8%. The guide and model card refer to separate test descriptions and do not reconcile the difference. The figures therefore remain tied to their respective sources. Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) and HLE-Verified are also different test sets.
The Cloud guide calls its table standard developer evaluations. The DeepMind methodology says Gemini scores are generally pass@1 unless stated otherwise. For Terminal-Bench 2.1, Gemini results were self-computed with Terminus 2 as the default agent harness. The model card lists HLE-Verified across 1,811 checked items, while the Cloud guide reports Humanity's Last Exam as HLE. Google attaches a caveat to its SWE-Bench Pro result in the Cloud guide. These are vendor-reported results, not a jointly controlled comparison (Google Cloud developer guide; Google DeepMind model card).
9. Alphabet's capital spending and financial figures
Alphabet raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $195 billion to $205 billion in July. This is a forecast for the whole company, not a budget solely for Gemini or AI. Capital spending includes technical infrastructure and other property and equipment.
Sources: Alphabet 2024 annual report, Alphabet 2025 annual report, Alphabet Investor Relations, Q2 2026 webcast
The chart uses the midpoint of the 2026 guidance range for its bar. The published forecast is the $195 billion to $205 billion range, not a full-year amount already spent. Alphabet's 2025 SEC filing reports $91.4 billion of actual CapEx. In Q2 2026, Google Cloud revenue reached $24.8 billion, up 82% year over year. Cloud backlog stood at $514 billion at quarter end, according to Sundar Pichai's Q2 2026 remarks.
Google attributed the lower Gemini serving costs to model optimization, efficiency, and utilization improvements. This is a company-reported figure, not a reduction in Alphabet's total costs (Alphabet Q4 2025; 2025 SEC filing).
10. Google AI plans and prices
These were the prices on Google's US plan pages on October 7, 2026. Usage limits depend on the plan and feature. A paid plan does not mean unlimited access to a specific model.
Models, countries, features, and limits can change by plan and over time. Check Google's US plan page for current details. See the Gemini model and API price guide for model-specific information.
11. Gemini's position in web traffic
In its October 12, 2026 update, Similarweb, as reported by OfficeChai, gave the following latest estimated shares of website traffic among selected AI chatbots for September 2026. These percentages measure neither monthly active users nor mobile app use.
Sources: Similarweb, September 2026, reported by OfficeChai, Similarweb
The estimates of 56.4% for ChatGPT, 25.0% for Gemini, and 9.6% for Claude refer to September 2026. Gemini's share was 26.6% in July and 25.6% in August. They describe website traffic among selected chatbots, not user shares.
Mobile app activity
In July 2026, Google reported 950 million monthly active Gemini app users and said daily active users had tripled year over year. The company did not give an absolute DAU figure. This growth statement cannot be used to calculate a US mobile app share.
12. Gemini Enterprise adoption
In July 2026, Google said nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies used Gemini Enterprise. The measure refers to Gemini Enterprise and is a company statement. It does not show how many employees actively use it or how many organizations pay for a Gemini app subscription (Alphabet Q2 2026 CEO remarks).
13. Gemini Nano on Android devices
Gemini Nano is designed for specific Android features that run on the device. In July 2026, Android Developers described how supported apps can process prompts locally, including when internet access is weak or unavailable. This applies to those on-device implementations. It does not mean every Gemini app feature works offline.
On July 21, 2026, Android Developers said Gemini Nano was running on more than 140 million devices. The same post called Nano 4 the latest model version, but did not say that all of those devices were running Nano 4 (Android Developers, July 21, 2026).
14. Energy and water use for a text prompt
On August 21, 2025, Google estimated that a median text prompt in the Gemini apps used 0.24 Wh of electricity, 0.26 milliliters of water, and emitted 0.03 grams of CO₂e. These figures come from Google's own measurement method and describe the median text prompt, not every Gemini request or image and video generation.
Google also reported that the energy use of this median text prompt had fallen by a factor of 33 and its carbon footprint by a factor of 44 over a 12-month comparison. These are Google's measurements, not an independent ranking of AI services. Google describes the method and its system boundaries in its technical report on AI inference's environmental impact.
15. Other documented milestones
- ICPC 2025: An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think solved 10 of 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals. Google DeepMind described this as gold-medal-level performance. Compared with the university teams, the system would have placed second. It did not compete as a regular team (Google DeepMind, September 17, 2025).
- Nano Banana: At Google I/O in May 2026, Sundar Pichai said users had generated more than 50 billion images with Google's Nano Banana models (Google I/O 2026).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: Google reported 47.2% Pass@1 on the external CWE-Bench and more than 70% on an internal vulnerability benchmark spanning 20 programming languages. These results come from different test setups. Cyber is available to selected defenders through Google's Fairwind program (Google, September 2, 2026).
- Gemini 3.8 Live: Google introduced the Live and Live Extended Thinking models for real-time voice interaction on September 15, 2026. Google's API documentation lists 131,072 input tokens and up to 65,536 output tokens (Google, September 15, 2026; Gemini API model page).
- Gemini 4 Argon: Google announced the new frontier model on September 30, 2026. As of October 7, it was first rolling out to selected cyber defense teams through the Fairwind Program. Google said wider access for developers, enterprises and consumers would follow after further safety testing. Argon was not yet a generally available Gemini model (Google, September 30, 2026).
Conclusion
The Gemini app, Gemini features in Search, and developer API activity are growing along different paths. Their reported figures cannot be added into one user total. The market shares here refer to estimated website visits, not app users.
Alphabet's investment figure is also a company-wide measure. Its $195 billion to $205 billion 2026 guidance covers technical infrastructure and other investment. It is neither Gemini revenue nor an AI-only budget.
