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A business intelligence profile useful for understanding OpenAI's commercial scale and growth, which contextualizes the resource pressures and incentives relevant to its AI safety and deployment decisions.
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Sacra's company profile on OpenAI provides financial and business intelligence data including revenue estimates, growth metrics, product breakdown, and competitive positioning. It serves as a reference for understanding OpenAI's commercial trajectory and market footprint as a leading AI lab.
Key Points
- •Tracks OpenAI's revenue growth and annualized run rate across key product lines including ChatGPT and API services
- •Provides estimates of user metrics, enterprise adoption, and market share in the generative AI space
- •Contextualizes OpenAI's business model including compute costs, partnerships (e.g., Microsoft), and monetization strategy
- •Useful for understanding the commercial pressures and incentives shaping OpenAI's deployment and safety decisions
- •Sacra is a private market research firm aggregating data on high-growth tech companies
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AI research lab offering GPT models via API and ChatGPT for consumers
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Revenue
$25.00B
2026
Valuation
$852.00B
2026
Funding
$178.00B
2026
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
CEO
Sam Altman
Website
openai.com
Milestones
FOUNDING YEAR
2015
RECAPITALIZATION
March 2019
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Revenue
Sacra estimates that OpenAI hit $25B in annualized revenue in February 2026, up from $20B at the end of 2025.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed the $20B 2025 figure in January 2026, alongside $6B in 2024 and $2B in 2023, reflecting a 3x year-over-year growth rate. The acceleration tracks with rising adoption of ChatGPT products across consumers and enterprises, as weekly active users grew to 910M, up from 800M in October and 700M in July, and paying business users surpassed 9M as of February 2026, up from 5M in August.
In September 2025, OpenAI disclosed first-half results of approximately $4.3B in revenue and $2.5B cash burn, noting $6.7B in R&D spend and nearly $2.5B in stock compensation. The company held approximately $17.5B in cash and securities at the end of H1 2025. OpenAI projected full-year 2025 revenue of approximately $13B and cash burn of approximately $8.5B, with compute and technical talent costs expected to consume approximately 75% of total revenue over the peri
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