Duolingo Statistics 2026: Daily Users, Paid Subscribers and Revenue, Straight From the SEC Filings
As of October 2026, the latest Duolingo statistics come from its Q2 2026 shareholder letter: 58.7 million daily active users (up 23% in a year), 140.6 million monthly active users, 12.7 million paid subscribers and $298.5 million in quarterly revenue, with $33.2 million of net income. Roughly 9% of monthly users pay. Q3 2026 results are due on November 3, 2026.
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What's in this guide
- Duolingo statistics at a glance (Q2 2026, the latest quarter)
- How many people use Duolingo every day?
- How many Duolingo users actually pay? (Users vs payers)
- Duolingo revenue and profit: where does the money come from?
- Duolingo statistics by year and by quarter
- The streak economy in numbers
- AI-made courses: how much content and what it costs
- The 2026 bet: why Duolingo chose users over money
- What has happened since the last earnings report?
- What do Duolingo statistics say about learning outcomes?
- What these Duolingo statistics mean for you as a learner
- Methodology
- Sources
- Frequently asked questions
Last checked: October 23, 2026. Every number on this page was read directly from Duolingo's own filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on that date. Links to each filing are in the Sources section at the bottom.
Most "Duolingo statistics" pages on the internet are the same twenty numbers copied from each other, some of them from 2022, some of them from nowhere at all. This one is different in a boring but useful way: we only used what Duolingo itself has filed with the SEC, where publishing a wrong number is a legal problem rather than a typo. Duolingo is a public company (Nasdaq: DUOL), so every quarter it files a shareholder letter, a quarterly report (10-Q) and, once a year, an annual report (10-K). That is the whole source list.
Where we did our own arithmetic (for example, the share of users who pay), we show the inputs and the formula so you can check it, and we label it as our calculation, not Duolingo's.
We also will not pretend these numbers mean more than they do. Fifty-eight million people opening an app every day is a fact about attention. It is not, by itself, a fact about how many people can hold a conversation in Spanish. We will get to that.
Duolingo statistics at a glance (Q2 2026, the latest quarter)
As of October 2026, the most recent quarter Duolingo has reported is the second quarter of 2026, the three months ended June 30, 2026. The results were published on August 5, 2026. Third-quarter results have not been released yet. Duolingo announced on October 8, 2026 that it will report them after the U.S. market closes on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and we will update this page once that letter is out.
Here are the headline numbers from the Q2 2026 shareholder letter (checked October 23, 2026):
| Measure | Q2 2025 | Q2 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily active users (DAUs, quarterly average) | 47.7M | 58.7M | +23% |
| Monthly active users (MAUs, quarterly average) | 128.3M | 140.6M | +10% |
| Paid subscribers (at June 30) | 10.9M | 12.7M | +17% |
| Revenue | $252.3M | $298.5M | +18% |
| Total bookings | $268.0M | $289.1M | +8% |
| Subscription bookings | $227.3M | $250.3M | +10% |
| Gross margin | 72.4% | 72.6% | +0.2 points |
| Net income | $44.8M | $33.2M | down 26% |
| Adjusted EBITDA | $78.7M | $77.3M | down 2% |
| Free cash flow | $86.3M | $78.6M | down 9% |
A few other numbers from the same letter worth knowing:
- Current User Retention Rate (CURR) of 84%, which Duolingo calls an all-time high, up about one point from a year earlier. CURR is the share of "current users" who come back the next day.
- 15.4 million learners took part in a one-off "Streak Revival" event in June 2026, including nearly 8 million who had no active streak when it started.
- About $1.3 billion in cash and short-term investments at the end of June 2026.
- Over one billion organic social impressions per quarter on Duolingo's own social accounts.
And from the Q2 2026 10-Q (checked October 23, 2026): Duolingo offers over 250 language courses, and Apple processed 59.6% of its revenue in the quarter, Google 23.2% and Stripe 11.9%. In other words, most of the money that flows into Duolingo passes through an iPhone first.
How many people use Duolingo every day?
58.7 million people, on average, used Duolingo on each day of the second quarter of 2026. That is the DAU figure, and it is the number Duolingo itself treats as the main measure of engagement. Monthly active users were 140.6 million.
It is worth knowing exactly what those words mean, because Duolingo defines them in every letter and the definitions matter:
- Daily active users are "unique users who engage with our Duolingo App or the learning section of our website each calendar day." The quarterly figure is the average across every day of the quarter.
- Monthly active users are unique users who engage in a calendar month, averaged across the three months of the quarter.
Notice what "engage" does not require. It does not require finishing a lesson, learning a word, or spending more than a moment in the app. Someone who opens Duolingo at 11:58 p.m. to save a streak with the easiest lesson available counts exactly the same as someone who does forty minutes of Japanese. Both are one DAU. This is not a trick; it is how almost every app counts users. But it is the first reason to be careful about turning "58.7 million daily users" into "58.7 million people learning a language every day."
The second reason is that DAUs include people who are not learning a language at all. Duolingo now teaches math, music and chess inside the same app. In its Q4 2025 letter (checked October 23, 2026), CEO Luis von Ahn wrote that chess had "reached more than seven million DAUs in less than a year." Duolingo does not publish how many of its daily users touch only chess, only math or only languages, and a person can of course do several, so you cannot subtract one number from another. What you can say is that not every DAU is a language learner.
The third caveat is one Duolingo states itself. Its metrics "are determined by using internal data gathered on an analytics platform that we developed and operate and have not been validated by an independent third party," and because methodologies get updated, "our operating metrics may not be comparable to those in prior periods." That sentence is in every shareholder letter. It does not mean the numbers are wrong. It means they are Duolingo's own count, audited by nobody outside the company.
How fast is Duolingo growing?
DAU growth slowed through 2025 and has picked up again in 2026. The Q4 2025 letter noted that from Q2 2022 to Q2 2025, Duolingo "did not have a single quarter with year-over-year DAU growth below 40%." Then growth eased: 36% in Q3 2025, 30% in Q4 2025, 21% in Q1 2026. In Q2 2026 it rose to 23%.
Duolingo gave three reasons for the bounce: product changes, marketing, and the one-time Streak Revival event. Because it considers two of those permanent, the company said it expects DAU growth "to remain above the 20%" for the rest of 2026.
How many Duolingo users actually pay? (Users vs payers)
About 9% of Duolingo's monthly users pay for a subscription. That is our calculation from the Q2 2026 letter: 12.7 million paid subscribers divided by 140.6 million MAUs is 9.0%. Duolingo's own 2025 annual report (checked October 23, 2026) gives a similar figure: subscribers made up 9.2% of average MAUs over 2025, up from 8.8% in 2024, and "approximately 9% of our monthly active users were paid subscribers" at the end of 2025.
Put the other way round, roughly 128 million of the 140.6 million monthly users are on the free version (140.6M minus 12.7M, again our arithmetic). Duolingo describes this as deliberate. The 10-K says the company "intentionally do[es] not put our learning content behind a paywall," and that free learners "see an ad at the end of each lesson."
Here is the users-versus-payers picture across recent quarters. Every input is a filed number; the three ratio columns are our own division, rounded to one decimal place.
| Quarter | DAUs | MAUs | Paid subs | DAU / MAU | Paid / MAU | Paid / DAU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 | 26.9M | 88.4M | 6.6M | 30.4% | 7.5% | 24.5% |
| Q2 2024 | 34.1M | 103.6M | 8.0M | 32.9% | 7.7% | 23.5% |
| Q4 2024 | 40.5M | 116.7M | 9.5M | 34.7% | 8.1% | 23.5% |
| Q2 2025 | 47.7M | 128.3M | 10.9M | 37.2% | 8.5% | 22.9% |
| Q4 2025 | 52.7M | 133.1M | 12.2M | 39.6% | 9.2% | 23.1% |
| Q1 2026 | 56.5M | 137.8M | 12.5M | 41.0% | 9.1% | 22.1% |
| Q2 2026 | 58.7M | 140.6M | 12.7M | 41.7% | 9.0% | 21.6% |
How we calculated it: DAU / MAU is quarterly average DAUs divided by quarterly average MAUs. Paid / MAU is period-end paid subscribers divided by quarterly average MAUs. Paid / DAU is period-end paid subscribers divided by quarterly average DAUs. Our Q4 2024 DAU/MAU result (34.7%) matches the figure Duolingo itself published in its Q4 2024 letter, which is a decent sanity check on the method.
Three honest caveats about this table:
- We are mixing a point in time with an average. Paid subscribers are counted on the last day of the quarter. MAUs and DAUs are averages across the quarter. That is fine for a rough ratio, but it is not a precise conversion rate, and Duolingo does not publish one for a single quarter.
- Not every payer is necessarily an active user that month. Someone can hold an annual subscription and not open the app for weeks. So "free MAUs = MAUs minus subscribers" is an approximation.
- Paid subscribers are defined narrowly. Duolingo counts each paying account once, even with several subscriptions, and excludes people on free trials and non-paying members of a family plan. So the number of people actually using a paid tier is higher than 12.7 million, by an amount Duolingo does not disclose.
What the ratios actually tell you
Two trends jump out.
Stickiness is rising. DAU/MAU went from about 30% at the end of 2023 to about 42% in Q2 2026. In plain words: of everyone who uses Duolingo in a month, a bigger share now shows up on any given day. That is consistent with Duolingo's statement that its CURR retention metric hit an all-time high of 84%.
The paying share has stopped climbing. Paid/MAU rose steadily from 7.5% to 9.2% between late 2023 and late 2025, then flattened at around 9% in 2026. Paid/DAU has slipped from roughly 23 to 24% to under 22%. That is not a mystery; it is the strategy. In the Q4 2025 letter, Duolingo said it would deliberately remove "friction" that nudged free users toward paying, estimating it was giving up "more than $50M of foregone bookings" in 2026 to grow the free user base. Daily users are growing faster than payers because the company chose that outcome.
A rough revenue-per-payer figure
Subscription revenue was $258.0 million in Q2 2026. Paid subscribers were 12.5 million at the end of March and 12.7 million at the end of June, an average of about 12.6 million. Dividing one by the other gives roughly $20 of subscription revenue per paying subscriber per quarter, or about $82 a year if you multiply by four.
Treat that as a ballpark, not a price. Revenue is recognised gradually over the life of a subscription (most are twelve months), family plans spread one payment across several people, and prices differ hugely by country. For what Duolingo actually charges you, see our Duolingo pricing breakdown.
Duolingo revenue and profit: where does the money come from?
Duolingo made $1,037.6 million in revenue in 2025, its first year above $1 billion, and $298.5 million in Q2 2026 alone. For the full year 2026, the company guided to about $1,207 million, which would be growth of roughly 16%.
Revenue by source
Subscriptions are the business. Everything else is a side dish. Here is the split from the 10-K (full year 2025) and the Q2 2026 letter:
| Revenue source | FY 2025 | Share of FY 2025 | Q2 2026 | Change vs Q2 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subscriptions | $873.4M | 84% | $258.0M | +22% |
| Advertising | $79.7M | 8% | $21.1M | +2% |
| Duolingo English Test | $42.0M | 4% | $10.1M | flat |
| In-app purchases | $40.5M | 4% | $8.0M | down 23% |
| Other | $1.9M | under 1% | $1.3M | up 148% |
| Total | $1,037.6M | 100% | $298.5M | +18% |
(The share column is our rounding of the filed dollar amounts.)
In Q2 2026, subscriptions were about 86% of revenue. Duolingo sells two subscription tiers, Super Duolingo and Duolingo Max. The Max tier carries the AI features such as Video Call, and Duolingo has said that most new Super subscribers now get Video Call too, with existing Super subscribers to follow later in 2026.
In-app purchases (things like Streak Freezes, according to the 10-K) fell 23% year on year in Q2 2026. Duolingo did not single out a cause for that line in the letter, so we will not guess at one.
Where the revenue comes from geographically
The 10-K says customers in the United States accounted for 38% of revenue in 2025, down from 42% in 2024 and 45% in 2023. No other single country passed 10%. So the U.S. is still the largest market, but the majority of the money now comes from the rest of the world, and that share is growing. The Q2 2026 letter adds that "over half of our bookings come from outside the US," which is why currency swings move Duolingo's numbers: the company estimates each 1% change in the dollar against its currency basket moves second-half 2026 bookings by about $4 million.
Is Duolingo profitable?
Yes. Duolingo has reported positive net income in every quarter shown on this page. Q2 2026 net income was $33.2 million, an 11.1% margin, down from $44.8 million a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA was $77.3 million (a 25.9% margin).
One number needs a warning label. Duolingo's 2025 net income was $414.1 million, but that includes a one-time income tax benefit of $256.7 million from releasing a valuation allowance on deferred tax assets, most of which landed in Q3 2025 (when quarterly net income jumped to $292.2 million). It is an accounting event, not a sudden flood of subscribers. If you see a headline saying Duolingo's profit quadrupled in 2025, that is why. Subtracting the benefit leaves roughly $157 million, but that is our simple subtraction, not a figure Duolingo reports.
The lower margins in 2026 are also deliberate. Duolingo said in its Q4 2025 letter that offering AI features to more users and spending slightly more on marketing would push its adjusted EBITDA margin down to about 25% for 2026. In August it raised that outlook to about 26.5%, crediting better-than-expected gross margins.
Duolingo statistics by year and by quarter
If you want the long view, these are the numbers as filed. All quarterly figures come from the shareholder letter for that quarter or, for 2024 quarters, the prior-year comparison column in the 2025 letters.
Annual Duolingo statistics, 2023 to 2026
| Year | Revenue | Total bookings | Net income | Adjusted EBITDA | Q4 DAUs | Q4 paid subs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $531.1M | $622.2M | $16.1M | $93.7M | 26.9M | 6.6M |
| 2024 | $748.0M | $870.6M | $88.6M | $191.9M | 40.5M | 9.5M |
| 2025 | $1,037.6M | $1,158.4M | $414.1M (includes one-time tax benefit) | $305.9M | 52.7M | 12.2M |
| 2026 (guidance, not results) | about $1,207M | about $1,285M | not guided | about $320M | not guided | not guided |
The 2026 row is the company's forecast from August 2026, not actual results. Duolingo does not guide net income, DAUs or subscribers in its guidance table, so those cells are left blank on purpose.
Quarterly Duolingo statistics, Q1 2024 to Q2 2026
| Quarter | DAUs | MAUs | Paid subs | Revenue | Total bookings | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2024 | 31.4M | 97.6M | 7.4M | $167.6M | $197.5M | $27.0M |
| Q2 2024 | 34.1M | 103.6M | 8.0M | $178.3M | $190.1M | $24.4M |
| Q3 2024 | 37.2M | 113.1M | 8.6M | $192.6M | $211.5M | $23.4M |
| Q4 2024 | 40.5M | 116.7M | 9.5M | $209.6M | $271.6M | $13.9M |
| Q1 2025 | 46.6M | 130.2M | 10.3M | $230.7M | $271.6M | $35.1M |
| Q2 2025 | 47.7M | 128.3M | 10.9M | $252.3M | $268.0M | $44.8M |
| Q3 2025 | 50.5M | 135.3M | 11.5M | $271.7M | $281.9M | $292.2M (includes tax benefit) |
| Q4 2025 | 52.7M | 133.1M | 12.2M | $282.9M | $336.8M | $42.0M |
| Q1 2026 | 56.5M | 137.8M | 12.5M | $292.0M | $308.5M | $43.5M |
| Q2 2026 | 58.7M | 140.6M | 12.7M | $298.5M | $289.1M | $33.2M |
Some things the table shows if you squint:
- Paid subscribers have never fallen quarter to quarter in this period. They nearly doubled, from 7.4 million to 12.7 million, in nine quarters.
- MAUs wobble, DAUs do not. MAUs dipped from 130.2 million in Q1 2025 to 128.3 million in Q2 2025 and from 135.3 million to 133.1 million between Q3 and Q4 2025, while DAUs kept rising every quarter. Fewer occasional users, more daily ones. That is exactly the shape you would expect from an app that runs on streaks.
- Bookings and revenue are not the same thing. Bookings are the amounts Duolingo receives when someone buys. Revenue is recognised gradually over the subscription, most of which last twelve months. That is why bookings can jump in a quarter (Q4 includes the New Year promotion, which Duolingo calls one of its biggest annual events) while revenue climbs more smoothly.
The streak economy in numbers
If you have ever done a lesson in a hotel bathroom at 11:57 p.m., you already understand Duolingo's business model better than most analysts. The streak, the count of consecutive days you have done at least one lesson, is the engine behind those DAU numbers, and Duolingo's filings say so fairly openly.
Here is everything the filings tell us about streaks:
- Over 10 million users had streaks of one year or longer, according to the Q4 2024 letter, and one third of DAUs had a Friend Streak.
- 15.4 million learners revived their streaks in June 2026's one-time Streak Revival event, which let eligible learners restore their longest-ever streak by opting in and completing three lessons. Nearly 8 million of them had no active streak when the event began. Duolingo called it "one of our most successful campaigns" and listed it as one of three reasons DAU growth accelerated in Q2 2026.
- Streak Freezes are one of the in-app purchases named in the 10-K. In-app purchase revenue was $40.5 million in 2025.
- CURR (Current User Retention Rate) reached 84% in Q2 2026. A "current user" is someone active today who was also active on another day in the previous seven. Duolingo says small CURR gains "compound into large DAU gains," which is a polite way of saying that getting people to come back tomorrow is the whole game.
Here is the honest read. Streaks are excellent at producing daily attendance. Attendance is a precondition for learning, so this is not nothing. But a streak measures whether you showed up, not what you did when you got there. The 8 million people who got a dormant streak back by doing three lessons boosted June's DAUs, and Duolingo itself flagged the event as one-time. Whether those people went on to learn anything is not something the filings measure.
If the streak is the thing keeping you on Duolingo, that is fine. Just be honest with yourself about whether you are protecting a number or building a skill. We wrote more about that tension in Does Duolingo Work?.
AI-made courses: how much content and what it costs
Duolingo has been loud about using AI to make content, and the filings give some actual numbers.
- Content volume exploded. In Q1 2026, Duolingo published 20,500 course units across its language courses, up from 7,100 per quarter in 2025 and 1,800 per quarter in 2024, according to its Q1 2026 letter (checked October 23, 2026). A unit is a collection of lessons on a vocabulary or grammar topic. The company credited "investing in AI tools that fundamentally change how quickly we can create content."
- Courses got longer at the top end. The same letter says Duolingo has launched content up to Duolingo Score 129, which it equates to CEFR B2, across the courses teaching its nine most-learned languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese.
- Speaking moved into the core product. Duolingo calls speaking practice "historically the biggest gap for learners on Duolingo." In 2026 it added spoken answers to most exercises, spoken flashcards and a free lesson type called Speaking Adventures, and it is widening access to Video Call, its AI conversation feature, from Max to Super subscribers.
- AI costs show up in the margins. In Q3 2025, gross margin dipped about 0.4 points to 72.5%, which Duolingo attributed to "increases in generative AI and hosting costs." By Q1 2026, gross margin was up 1.9 points to 73.0%, "driven primarily by continued reductions in per-unit AI costs." In Q2 2026 it was 72.6%, and the company credited "AI cost efficiencies."
- Scale of practice. The 10-K says learners complete "nearly 2 billion exercises every day."
What should you take from this? More content and more speaking practice are good for learners, full stop. Speaking was the obvious hole in the app for years, and Duolingo's own letter now says so. The open question, which the filings cannot answer, is quality: quadrupling the output of course units in a year with AI tools is a production statistic, not a teaching statistic. Duolingo says it added an end-of-unit mastery check partly so it can measure "how well each unit of content teaches." That data is not public.
The 2026 bet: why Duolingo chose users over money
To read the 2026 numbers properly, you need the strategy behind them, which Duolingo laid out unusually plainly in its Q4 2025 letter:
- Target: 100 million DAUs in 2028. That is the stated "medium-term goal." From 58.7 million in Q2 2026, getting there means growing by about 70% in roughly two years (our arithmetic).
- Give up some money now. Duolingo expected 2026 bookings growth of about 11%, versus what it believed could be "nearly 20%" if it ran the business the old way. It estimated more than $50 million of bookings would be given up by removing friction for free users.
- Teach better. More Video Call access, more spoken exercises, more advanced content.
- Grow non-language subjects. Chess, math and music.
So far, by its own numbers, the plan is on track. DAU growth accelerated to 23% in Q2 2026, ahead of the roughly 20% the company had forecast. Bookings growth slowed to 8% in Q2 2026 (6% in constant currency), which Duolingo said was within expectations and partly a tough comparison with Q2 2025, when it rolled out its Energy system, raised prices and saw strong advertising. Full-year guidance stayed at 10% to 12% bookings growth and 15% to 18% revenue growth.
For Q3 2026, the quarter Duolingo will report on November 3, the company guided to:
| Q3 2026 guidance | Amount | Year-on-year growth |
|---|---|---|
| Bookings | about $307M | about 8.9% |
| Revenue | about $302M | about 11.1% |
| Adjusted EBITDA | about $76M | 25.2% margin |
| Gross margin | about 71.0% | not applicable |
Again: these are forecasts from August 5, 2026, not results.
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What has happened since the last earnings report?
Here is the news from Duolingo's SEC filings in the roughly eleven weeks since Q2 results, as of October 23, 2026:
- August 10, 2026: a new board member. Duolingo appointed Sallie Krawcheck, former Citigroup CFO and founder of Ellevest, to its board and audit committee, expanding the board from nine to ten directors.
- August 18, 2026: an accidental DAU leak. In an unusual 8-K filing, Duolingo disclosed that during an investor meeting at its offices, "a screen in the meeting room inadvertently displayed information indicating that the DAU growth rate on August 17, 2026 was estimated to be 27.4%" compared with the same day a year earlier, with similar estimates for earlier days in August. Companies have to share material information with everyone at once, which is why this became a public filing. Duolingo stressed that the data had not been through its normal review and "should not be read as indicative of the Company's expected results for Q3 2026." So: an interesting hint, explicitly not a forecast, and a single day is not a quarter.
- October 8, 2026: Q3 date set. Duolingo announced it will report Q3 2026 results after the market close on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with a webcast at 5:00 p.m. ET.
- Leadership. Gillian Munson became CFO on February 23, 2026, succeeding Matt Skaruppa, per Duolingo's January 12, 2026 announcement. Munson had been on the board since 2019.
The EDGAR filing index showed no Q3 2026 earnings filing when we checked on October 23, 2026. This article will be updated after Duolingo releases Q3 2026 results on November 3, 2026.
What do Duolingo statistics say about learning outcomes?
Honestly, very little. None of the core numbers Duolingo reports every quarter (DAUs, MAUs, paid subscribers, bookings, revenue) measures whether anyone learned a language. They measure attention and payment. That is not a criticism of Duolingo, which is a business reporting business metrics to investors. It is a criticism of the many articles that treat "58.7 million daily users" as proof that the app teaches 58.7 million people.
Here is what the filings do say about learning, and how much weight each claim can bear.
The company's own efficacy claim. The 2025 10-K states: "According to an internal study, learners who completed five sections of Duolingo achieved proficiency comparable to five university semesters of language education." Note the words "internal study" and "completed five sections." Completing five sections of a Duolingo course takes a long time, and the share of the 140.6 million MAUs who ever get there is not disclosed. The claim describes the people who finish, not the average user.
Independent studies. The 10-K says "independent studies corroborate this finding" on speaking skills and English test performance, and points readers to duolingo.com/efficacy. The filing does not name the studies, their authors or sample sizes, so we cannot assess them from the filing alone, and we have not reviewed them for this page. Read the original studies before quoting them.
Video Call. The Q2 2025 letter said Duolingo now had "research that shows that Video Call... is helping learners improve speaking skills." Again, no study details in the letter.
Proficiency levels. Duolingo says its nine biggest language courses now reach Duolingo Score 129, which it maps to CEFR B2, and the Q4 2025 letter describes 129 as "the level at which learners can get a knowledge job in that language." That is a claim about what the content covers, not about how many learners reach it.
Retention is not proficiency. An 84% next-day retention rate is impressive product engineering. It tells you people come back. It does not tell you whether they can order dinner, follow a film or survive a job interview in the language.
What would actually answer the learning question? Things like: how many active learners reach B1 or B2 on an independent test, how long it typically takes, and how that compares to people who study with a teacher or speak regularly with a partner. Duolingo has the data to estimate some of this (it says it now checks for mastery at the end of every unit), but it does not publish it in its filings. Until it does, any article that tells you "Duolingo works for X% of users" is making the number up.
Our view, for what it is worth: Duolingo is very good at getting you started and keeping you showing up, and it has finally made speaking a core part of the product. But listening to and speaking with real people, at real speed, is still the part most learners need more of than any app gives them. We go deeper on this in Is Duolingo Worth It?.
What these Duolingo statistics mean for you as a learner
You are probably not here to model Duolingo's share price. So here is how to actually use these numbers.
- Do not read popularity as proof that a method works for you. 58.7 million daily users tells you Duolingo is very good at habits. It says nothing about whether your current routine will get you to a conversation. Judge your progress by what you can do, not by your streak count.
- Know that you are in the 91%, or the 9%. About nine in ten monthly users are on the free version. The free version is genuinely usable; Duolingo says it deliberately keeps learning content outside the paywall. Paying gets you no ads and extra features. Before you pay, check whether you would use those features. Our Duolingo pricing guide covers the tiers.
- Use the new speaking features if you stay. Duolingo's own letters call speaking the app's "biggest gap" historically. If you are on Duolingo, switch on the spoken answers and use any conversation practice you have access to, rather than tapping word tiles.
- Test yourself outside the app every month or so. Try describing your day out loud for two minutes, with no notes, in your target language. Record it. If you cannot do it, your streak is lying to you a little.
- Add real conversation practice. This is where most app-only learners stall. Whether it is a tutor, a language exchange partner or an AI speaking tool, you need reps of producing sentences under mild pressure. If you want to compare options, our Duolingo alternatives list and our Falou vs Duolingo comparison are good starting points.
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Methodology
Sources. We used only documents Duolingo, Inc. (SEC Central Index Key 0001562088) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: quarterly shareholder letters filed as exhibits to Form 8-K, the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and other 8-K filings in 2026. The only exception is the Q3 2026 results date, which comes from Duolingo's October 8, 2026 press release as republished on finviz, because Duolingo's investor relations website blocked our automated access. All documents were downloaded and read on October 23, 2026.
Latest quarter check. On October 23, 2026 we checked EDGAR's list of Duolingo filings. The most recent earnings filing was the Q2 2026 8-K of August 5, 2026. No Q3 2026 results had been filed.
Third-party sources we did not use. The content plan for this page originally pointed to a press article for the Streak Revival figure. We did not rely on it: the 15.4 million figure is confirmed in Duolingo's own Q2 2026 letter, and that is what we cite. We did not use any statistics aggregator sites, app-download estimates from analytics vendors, or social media posts.
Our calculations. The users-versus-payers ratios, the revenue-per-subscriber estimate, the revenue-share percentages, the 2025 net income excluding the tax benefit, and the growth needed to reach 100 million DAUs are our own arithmetic on filed numbers, shown with their inputs. They are not figures Duolingo reports. Rounding is to one decimal place unless stated.
Definitions. We use Duolingo's own definitions of DAUs, MAUs, paid subscribers and bookings, quoted from its letters. DAUs and MAUs are quarterly averages. Paid subscribers are counted at the end of the period. Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are non-GAAP measures as defined by Duolingo.
What we left out. We did not include numbers by country (Duolingo only discloses U.S. versus rest of world revenue), by language course (not disclosed in filings), app downloads (not disclosed in filings), or streak length distributions beyond what the letters state. If a page gives you "the most popular Duolingo language by country" with precise figures, those did not come from Duolingo's SEC filings.
Updates. We will refresh this page after Duolingo publishes Q3 2026 results on November 3, 2026, and after each later earnings release.
Sources
All checked on October 23, 2026.
- Duolingo Q2 2026 shareholder letter (8-K exhibit, August 5, 2026): Q2 2026 DAUs, MAUs, paid subscribers, revenue, bookings, net income, margins, revenue by source, CURR, Streak Revival, Q3 and FY 2026 guidance, metric definitions.
- Duolingo Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026: 250+ courses, payment processor shares.
- Duolingo Q1 2026 shareholder letter: Q1 2026 metrics, course units published, B2 content, speaking features, gross margin and AI costs.
- Duolingo Q4 and FY 2025 shareholder letter: 2025 annual figures, 2026 strategy, 100 million DAU goal, foregone bookings, chess DAUs.
- Duolingo Form 10-K for 2025: revenue by source and geography, subscriber share of MAUs, efficacy statements, exercises per day.
- Duolingo Q3 2025 shareholder letter: Q3 2025 and Q3 2024 metrics, tax benefit, AI cost effect on margin.
- Duolingo Q2 2025 shareholder letter: Q2 2025 and Q2 2024 metrics, Video Call research statement.
- Duolingo Q1 2025 shareholder letter: Q1 2025 and Q1 2024 metrics.
- Duolingo Q4 and FY 2024 shareholder letter: 2023 and 2024 annual figures, Q4 2023 metrics, DAU/MAU of 34.7%, year-long streaks, Friend Streaks.
- Form 8-K, August 18, 2026: inadvertently displayed 27.4% DAU growth estimate.
- Press release, August 10, 2026: Sallie Krawcheck board appointment.
- Press release, January 12, 2026: CFO transition.
- EDGAR filing index for Duolingo: confirmation that no Q3 2026 results had been filed.
- Duolingo Q3 2026 results date announcement, October 8, 2026 (republished on finviz): November 3, 2026 release date.
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Frequently asked questions
How many people use Duolingo in 2026?
In the second quarter of 2026, Duolingo averaged 58.7 million daily active users and 140.6 million monthly active users, according to its Q2 2026 shareholder letter. Daily users grew 23% from a year earlier. These are the latest official figures as of October 2026; Q3 2026 numbers are due on November 3, 2026.
How many Duolingo users pay for a subscription?
Duolingo had 12.7 million paid subscribers at June 30, 2026. That is about 9% of its 140.6 million monthly active users, our calculation, which matches Duolingo's own statement that roughly 9% of monthly users were paying at the end of 2025. People on free trials and non-paying family plan members are not counted.
How much money does Duolingo make?
Duolingo reported revenue of $1,037.6 million for 2025 and $298.5 million for Q2 2026. It has guided to about $1,207 million for the full year 2026. About 84% of 2025 revenue came from subscriptions, with the rest from advertising, the Duolingo English Test and in-app purchases.
Is Duolingo profitable?
Yes. Duolingo reported net income of $33.2 million in Q2 2026 and $43.5 million in Q1 2026. Its 2025 net income of $414.1 million is inflated by a one-time $256.7 million tax benefit, so do not compare it directly with other years.
Do Duolingo's user numbers prove that it works?
No. Daily and monthly active users measure how many people open the app, not how much they learn. Duolingo cites an internal study and unnamed independent studies in its 10-K, but its quarterly metrics do not measure proficiency. For an honest look at what the app can and cannot do, see our article on whether Duolingo works.
When will Duolingo release its next statistics?
Duolingo said it will report Q3 2026 results after the U.S. market closes on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The shareholder letter is filed with the SEC the same day. We will update this page after that release.
Where do these Duolingo statistics come from?
Only from Duolingo's own SEC filings: quarterly shareholder letters, the Q2 2026 10-Q and the 2025 10-K. We avoided statistics aggregators because many recycle outdated or unsourced figures. Any ratio we calculated ourselves is labelled and shows its inputs.