Medium “ChatGPT” tag statistics
How busy the ChatGPT tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 640 stories from the last 14.2 days
Busier than 26% of 73 tracked tags
35% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 45 stories a day, ChatGPT is busier than 26% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (19,880 followers per daily story) is higher than 34% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
63% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 35% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 34% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish ChatGPT stories
| Publication | Followers | ChatGPT stories (last 14.2d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 13 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 11 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 9 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 8 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 6 |
| AI Tomorrow | 38 | 5 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 4 |
| Technology in Real World | 1 | 4 |
| The Ai Studio | 1.2K | 4 |
| sofia’s tech cubicle | 8 | 4 |
Top ChatGPT stories right now
- How Do You Build and Publish an App From ChatGPT With Floot?
- AI Isn’t Just Answering Anymore. It’s Doing the Work.
- Most People Think AI Is Overhyped. They Have No Idea What’s Coming.
- Trust Your Reader. Then See What Happens
- Am I the Only One Who Tells All My Ideas to ChatGPT?
- Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can’t Believe It Worked)
- ChatGPT Is Turning Your AI Images Into Ad Space.
- Why Do We Tell ChatGPT Our Secrets?
- I Looked Beyond the GPT-7 Suspension, and the Real AI Story Is Bigger
- ChatGPT Is Becoming Much More Visual
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the ChatGPT tag on Medium?
- About 45 per day (316 per week), based on 640 stories published in the 14.2-day window before our last scan. The tag has 103,683 stories in total.
- Is the ChatGPT tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 26% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 19,880 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in ChatGPT?
- 35% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 63% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.