OpenAI's API Business Generates Over $1 Billion in Monthly Incremental Annualized Revenue, Accelerating Exploration of Diversified Profit Models
2026-01-23 / Read about 0 minute
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On January 22, 2026 (local time), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced on the social platform X that the company's API business had generated over $1 billion in new annual recurring revenue (ARR) last month (December 2025). The new revenue primarily stemmed from a significant increase in API calls for GPT models by enterprise customers. Currently, OpenAI's API services have become a core infrastructure for numerous startups in Silicon Valley.