Microsoft Copilot Statistics (2026): 30M+ Paid Seats, 55 Key Stats

A data roundup of how many people and companies use Microsoft Copilot, from Microsoft 365 Copilot and the consumer Copilot app to GitHub Copilot, Bing and Edge, taken from Microsoft’s own earnings calls, Pew Research Center and Microsoft AI’s Copilot usage report.

Microsoft now has over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, with net seat adds more than doubling in the quarter, per its FY26 Q4 earnings call. GitHub Copilot has 50 million users, and Bing passed 1 billion monthly active users for the first time in FY26 Q3. The consumer side is smaller: Pew found 17% of U.S. adults use Copilot, against 44% for ChatGPT. So Copilot is a work engine first. If your buyers live in Microsoft 365, these are the numbers behind tracking it with AI visibility tools.

Key takeaways

• 30 million+ paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats in FY26 Q4 (FY26 Q4 call)
• 50 million GitHub Copilot users, up from 20 million a year earlier (FY26 Q4 call)
• 150 million+ monthly active users across Microsoft’s family of Copilots (FY26 Q1 call)
• 1 billion Bing monthly active users for the first time (FY26 Q3 call)
• 17% of U.S. adults use Copilot, versus 44% for ChatGPT and 24% for Gemini (Pew)
• Searching for information is still Copilot’s most popular use (Microsoft AI)

How many people use Microsoft Copilot?

1. Microsoft’s family of Copilots passed 150 million monthly active users across information work, coding, security, science, health and consumer (FY26 Q1 call).
2. That was up from 100 million monthly active users across commercial and consumer Copilot apps a quarter earlier (FY25 Q4 call).
3. Daily users of the consumer Copilot app rose nearly 3X year over year by FY26 Q2 (FY26 Q2 call).
4. Consumer app daily users grew nearly 50% quarter over quarter in FY26 Q1 (FY26 Q1 call).
5. 17% of U.S. adults say they ever use Copilot, a survey of U.S. adults conducted in February 2026 found (Pew).
6. 44% of U.S. adults use ChatGPT, up from 34% a year earlier, so ChatGPT’s reach is more than twice Copilot’s (Pew).
7. 24% use Gemini, which puts Copilot third among the chatbots Pew asked about (Pew).
8. About four in ten U.S. adults use chatbots for information searching (Pew).
9. Copilot queries per user rose nearly 20% quarter over quarter in FY26 Q3 (FY26 Q3 call).

Microsoft 365 Copilot statistics

10. Over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats in FY26 Q4, with net seat adds more than doubling quarter over quarter (FY26 Q4 call).
11. Over 20 million paid seats a quarter earlier, in FY26 Q3 (FY26 Q3 call).
12. 15 million paid seats in FY26 Q2, “and multiples more enterprise Chat users” (FY26 Q2 call).
13. Seat adds rose 250% year over year in FY26 Q3, Microsoft’s fastest growth since launch (FY26 Q3 call).
14. Seat adds were up over 160% year over year in FY26 Q2, a record quarter at the time (FY26 Q2 call).
15. Daily active users of Microsoft 365 Copilot grew 10X year over year (FY26 Q2 call).
16. Copilot revenue accelerated over 60% quarter over quarter in FY26 Q4 (FY26 Q4 call).
17. Enterprise customers deploying Copilot to most of their information workers grew nearly 75% quarter over quarter (FY26 Q4 call).
18. More than 90% of the Fortune 500 use Microsoft 365 Copilot (FY26 Q1 call).
19. Microsoft shipped 625 Microsoft 365 Copilot updates in a year, up 50% (FY26 Q3 call).
20. Copilot Credit consumption nearly doubled (2X) quarter over quarter as customers build custom agents (FY26 Q3 call).
21. Copilot workload throughput rose 4X since the start of 2026 (FY26 Q4 call), after a 40% inference throughput gain on its most-used models in FY26 Q3 (FY26 Q3 call).

Biggest Copilot deployments

22. Accenture has over 740,000 Copilot seats, Microsoft’s largest Copilot win to date (FY26 Q3 call).
23. NHS England is rolling Copilot out to 505,000 clinicians and staff (FY26 Q4 call).
24. The NHS trial found Copilot saved employees an average of 43 minutes per day (FY26 Q4 call).
25. Barclays is rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot out to 100,000 employees after a first deployment of 15,000 (FY25 Q4 call).
26. PwC employees used Microsoft 365 Copilot over 30 million times in six months (FY26 Q1 call).
27. Mass General Brigham rolled Dragon Copilot out to over 4,000 providers; a study found ambient AI cut burnout by 21% (FY26 Q4 call).
28. Security Copilot agents cut Icertis’ manual triage time by 75% (FY26 Q2 call).
29. Security Copilot customers doubled (2X) year over year (FY26 Q3 call).

GitHub Copilot statistics

30. GitHub Copilot has 50 million users as of FY26 Q4 (FY26 Q4 call).
31. Over 26 million users in FY26 Q1, when Microsoft called it the most popular AI pair programmer (FY26 Q1 call).
32. 20 million users in FY25 Q4 (FY25 Q4 call).
33. Over 15 million users, up over 4X year over year, in FY25 Q3 (FY25 Q3 call).
34. Over 4.7 million paid GitHub Copilot subscribers, up 75% year over year (FY26 Q2 call).
35. Copilot Pro+ subscriptions for individual developers rose 77% quarter over quarter (FY26 Q2 call).
36. Nearly 140,000 organizations use GitHub Copilot, and enterprise subscribers nearly tripled year over year (FY26 Q3 call).
37. 80% of new GitHub developers start with Copilot in their first week (FY26 Q1 call).
38. 90% of the Fortune 100 use GitHub Copilot (FY25 Q4 call), and GitHub Copilot Enterprise customers grew 75% in that quarter.
39. GitHub has 225 million users, including over 90% of the Fortune 500 (FY26 Q4 call), up from over 180 million developers in FY26 Q1 (FY26 Q1 call).
40. Siemens rolled GitHub Copilot out to 30,000 developers before adopting the full platform (FY26 Q2 call).
41. MAI-Code-1-Flash on GitHub Copilot used 10% fewer median tokens with higher code acceptance (FY26 Q4 call).
42. GitHub’s Code Review Agent had reviewed over 8 million pull requests by FY25 Q3 (FY25 Q3 call).

Copilot agents and usage volume

43. Purview has audited over 50 billion Copilot interactions, up nearly 360% year over year (FY26 Q4 call).
44. 24 billion Copilot interactions were audited in FY26 Q2 alone, up 9X year over year (FY26 Q2 call).
45. 16 billion interactions were audited in FY26 Q1, up 72% quarter over quarter (FY26 Q1 call).
46. More than 230,000 organizations have used Copilot Studio (FY25 Q3 call).
47. Customers created over 1 million custom agents in one quarter, up 130%, across SharePoint and Copilot Studio (FY25 Q3 call), and 3 million over fiscal 2025 (FY25 Q4 call).
48. Microsoft AI analyzed 37.5 million Copilot conversations for its 2025 usage report (Microsoft AI).
49. Searching for information remains Copilot’s most popular use, with a clear rise in people asking for advice (Microsoft AI).
50. Health is the most common topic in mobile Copilot conversations, all year round (Microsoft AI).
51. Copilot Checkout lets people buy inside the Copilot app, with PayPal, Shopify and Stripe as partners (FY26 Q2 call).

Bing, Edge and search revenue

52. Bing reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time in FY26 Q3 (FY26 Q3 call).
53. Edge has taken browser share for 20 consecutive quarters (FY26 Q3 call).
54. Monthly active Windows devices passed 1.6 billion (FY26 Q3 call).
55. Search advertising revenue ex-TAC grew 10% in FY26 Q4 and 12% in FY26 Q3, driven by revenue per search across Edge and Bing (FY26 Q4 call).

What to do with this data

• Treat Copilot as a B2B engine. Most of Copilot’s growth is paid seats inside companies: 30 million Microsoft 365 seats and 50 million GitHub Copilot users. If you sell to teams that work in Microsoft 365, your buyers may ask Copilot before they ask Google.
• Start with the engines most of your buyers use. ChatGPT still reaches more than twice as many U.S. adults as Copilot. Mentionova tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Reddit, and its agents draft the content and replies that close citation gaps. Compare it in the best GEO tools.
• Add Copilot tracking where it matters. Otterly.AI and Scrunch track Copilot on their entry plans, and Profound covers it on Enterprise. See our Otterly.AI alternatives and Profound pricing breakdowns.
• Watch the rest of the engine set. Compare these numbers with our ChatGPT statistics, Meta AI statistics, Gemini statistics and AI chatbot statistics.

Frequently asked questions

How many people use Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft’s family of Copilots passed 150 million monthly active users in FY26 Q1, up from 100 million a quarter earlier. Microsoft 365 Copilot has over 30 million paid seats and GitHub Copilot has 50 million users. In the U.S., Pew found 17% of adults use Copilot.

How many paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats are there?

Over 30 million, per Microsoft’s FY26 Q4 earnings call, up from over 20 million in FY26 Q3 and 15 million in FY26 Q2. Net seat adds more than doubled quarter over quarter in FY26 Q4.

How many people use GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot has 50 million users, per Microsoft’s FY26 Q4 call. That is up from 20 million in FY25 Q4 and over 15 million in FY25 Q3. Microsoft reported over 4.7 million paid subscribers in FY26 Q2.

Is Copilot bigger than ChatGPT?

No, not among consumers. Pew’s February 2026 survey found 44% of U.S. adults use ChatGPT, 24% use Gemini and 17% use Copilot. Copilot’s strength is at work, where more than 90% of the Fortune 500 use Microsoft 365 Copilot.

How many people use Bing?

Bing reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time in FY26 Q3, per Microsoft’s earnings call. Edge has taken browser share for 20 consecutive quarters.

How we compiled these statistics

We fetched 8 primary source pages on October 23, 2026 and recorded 64 data points in docs/content/stats-ledgers/microsoft-copilot-statistics.json. Every numbered figure above maps to a ledger row with a verbatim quote. User, seat, revenue and deployment figures are Microsoft’s own statements from the prepared remarks and Q&A on its FY25 Q3 to FY26 Q4 earnings calls. Consumer reach comes from Pew Research Center’s survey of 5,119 U.S. adults (Feb. 17-23, 2026), and usage patterns from Microsoft AI’s 2025 Copilot usage report. Company figures are self-reported and not independently audited. Sources: FY26 Q4 earnings call, FY26 Q3 earnings call, FY26 Q2 earnings call, FY26 Q1 earnings call, FY25 Q4 earnings call, FY25 Q3 earnings call, Pew, Americans and AI 2026, Microsoft AI, Copilot usage report 2025. Related reading: AI search statistics, Perplexity statistics, Claude statistics.