Modeled estimates

Usage

Tokens, prompts, pictures — the demand side of the meter. Every number on this page is a modeled estimate smeared from a public print — not a live API, not a hard claim.

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AI tokens · modeled estimate · today

Tokens generated today

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~4,398,148,148 / second

Modeled global inference across disclosed floors and triangulated channels. Tokens from different models are not a single physical unit — tokenizers and input/output/reasoning/multimodal accounting differ. Treat the token count as a directional index, not barrels of oil.

About 4.4 billion tokens every second — War and Peace, 7,800 times, every second.

Source: Tokens Per Day modeled total (~360T/day, Jul 2026), grown to a September run-rate.

Queries · modeled estimate · today

Queries modeled today

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~97,222 / second

OpenAI publicly reported ChatGPT at more than 2.5 billion messages per day. Epoch later modeled ChatGPT closer to ~4 billion daily messages — an estimate, not the same kind of disclosed number. Our global query meter is a modeled stack on top of the disclosed floor, plus Gemini, Claude, Grok, and the open-weight fog.

A smear of modeled conversations, not a live query log.

Source: OpenAI disclosed >2.5B ChatGPT messages/day; Epoch ~4B estimate for ChatGPT; AiSignal models the rest of the stack. Not a utility meter.

Images · modeled estimate · today

Images generated today

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~3,241 / second

Still images are the bulk of generative media. OpenAI users alone were producing on the order of 78 million images a day; the long tail of open models is larger still.

More than 3,200 pictures a second — a new photograph every blink.

Source: OpenAI image-volume reporting plus open-weight triangulation, 2026.

People using AI · modeled estimate · today

People who used generative AI today

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~6,019 / second

Standalone tools passed a billion monthly users; embedded AI in search, mail, and office software lifts the wider net toward 1.5 billion. Daily reach is modeled from that base.

About one in sixteen humans, every day.

Source: DataReportal Digital 2026; Microsoft Global AI Diffusion; OpenAI MAU, Jun 2026.