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Google Tops Global Monthly Token Use: 1.3 Quadrillion!

Google leads with 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed—AI's new benchmark for scale and capability.

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Meng Li
Oct 12, 2025
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Logan Kilpatrick on X: "Over 1.3 quadrillion tokens a month across Google,  so much progress : ) so much more to go! https://t.co/TRRAOEYN0R" / X

1,300,000,000,000,000!

1.3 quadrillion—an astonishing number. This is Google’s monthly token processing volume.

According to Logan Kilpatrick, Google’s “propaganda commissioner,” this data comes from Google’s internal statistics across its various platforms.

If we reference the standards provided in DeepSeek’s API documentation:

  • 1 English character ≈ 0.3 tokens

  • 1 Chinese character ≈ 0.6 tokens

Then, in the Chinese-speaking world, 1.3 quadrillion tokens equals approximately 2.17 quadrillion Chinese characters. Converting this to conversation volume, a copy of “Dream of the Red Chamber” contains around 700,000-800,000 characters, which means in one month, everyone talking to Google AI has covered the equivalent of nearly 3 billion copies of “Dream of the Red Chamber.”

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