OpenAI
Financial Performance
OpenAI Revenue & Financials
Revenue
$20B (FY2025, annualized run-rate)
Employees
4,500
What is OpenAI's revenue?
OpenAI's latest revenue figure is $20B (2025). This is an annualized run-rate, not audited fiscal-year revenue.
- Latest revenue
- $20B (FY2025, annualized run-rate)
- Years of data
- 3
- Employees
- 4,500
- How many employees does OpenAI have?
- OpenAI has about 4,500 employees.
Financial Analysis
OpenAI reports revenue as annualized run rate rather than audited GAAP figures. The company says it reached $1 billion of revenue within a year of launching ChatGPT, was generating about $1 billion per quarter by the end of 2024, and passed $20 billion of annualized revenue by the end of 2025. Axios reported the run rate was nearing $70 billion at the end of September 2026. Funding has scaled alongside: $110 billion announced in February 2026 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation grew to $122 billion committed at $852 billion post-money by March 31, 2026, anchored by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank. An employee tender of about $7 billion followed in August 2026 at the same valuation. The company remains unprofitable because compute spending outpaces revenue.
Revenue Trend Analysis
Trend
Not enough comparable years
OpenAI has no full fiscal year of revenue on this page, plus 3 other figures (annualized run-rate, partial-period or estimated) that are not ranked or trended with them. There are not enough consecutive, comparable fiscal years to measure a trend.
Reported Revenue Figures
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | YoY Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025annualized run-rate | $20B | — | OpenAI More than $20 billion annualized revenue at the end of 2025, stated by OpenAI. |
| FY2024annualized run-rate | $4B | — | OpenAI OpenAI said it was generating about $1 billion per quarter by the end of 2024 (roughly $4 billion annualized). |
| FY2023annualized run-rate | $2B | — | OpenAI About $2 billion annualized revenue in 2023, stated by OpenAI. |
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OpenAI Revenue and Financial FAQ
What is OpenAI's revenue?
OpenAI said it passed $20 billion of annualized revenue by the end of 2025. Axios reported on September 29, 2026 that annual recurring revenue was nearing $70 billion. OpenAI does not publish audited GAAP results.
How has OpenAI's revenue grown?
OpenAI says it hit $1 billion in revenue within a year of launching ChatGPT, was generating about $1 billion per quarter by the end of 2024, and reached a $20 billion-plus run rate by the end of 2025.
How much has OpenAI raised in 2026?
OpenAI announced $110 billion of new investment in February 2026 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, and closed the round at $122 billion committed and an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31, 2026.
Is OpenAI profitable?
No. OpenAI does not disclose net income, but its compute and infrastructure commitments exceed current revenue, and it continues to raise capital to fund them.
What is OpenAI's next funding round?
Bloomberg reported in late September 2026 that OpenAI was in talks to raise at least $30 billion at roughly a $1.4 trillion valuation as a bridge before an eventual IPO. Terms were not final.
What is OpenAI's compute and operational cash burn rate?
OpenAI consumes billions of dollars annually in training and inference compute costs, spending vast sums on clusters of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs hosted on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to train next-generation foundation models and serve hundreds of millions of weekly active users.
How is OpenAI's multi-billion-dollar revenue split between consumer and enterprise?
Approximately 70% to 75% of OpenAI's annualized revenue is generated by direct consumer subscriptions (ChatGPT Plus and Pro), while the remaining 25% to 30% is driven by corporate API consumption, enterprise seat licenses (ChatGPT Enterprise), and revenue sharing with Microsoft.
What is the financial structure of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and profit cap?
Under their multi-billion-dollar strategic alliance, Microsoft is entitled to 75% of OpenAI's profits until its $13 billion investment is recouped, followed by 49% of profits up to an agreed financial cap, with Microsoft holding exclusive commercial cloud licensing rights for OpenAI models.
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