Canva closed 2025 with more than 265 million monthly active users and $4 billion in annual recurring revenue. In August 2026, it cut its 2026 revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% because AI features cost more to serve than planned.
These Canva statistics cover revenue, users, valuation marks, AI costs, and the education and business segments. They draw on company statements and reporting from 2025 and 2026.
Canva Statistics
Revenue Statistics: Canva Posts $921.9 Million in Q2 2026
Canva recorded US$921.9 million in revenue for the June quarter of 2026, up 25.2% year over year. CEO Melanie Perkins reported the figure in her Q2 CY2026 letter to shareholders.
The same letter lowered the full-year 2026 growth outlook from 30% to 20%. Perkins wrote that several first-party AI models were not ready, and that pricing and usage controls had not kept up with demand.
Source: Startup Daily, reporting Canva’s Q2 CY2026 shareholder letter, August 2026
The reset follows a strong close to 2025. Co-founder and COO Cliff Obrecht said Canva reached $4 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of that year.
Source: TechCrunch, February 2026
Before that ARR figure, Canva published its revenue as an annualized run rate. Subscription plans drive that revenue, the same model behind the wider software as a service market.
| Date | Annualized revenue stated by Canva |
|---|---|
| August 2023 | More than $1.5 billion |
| April 2025 | More than $3 billion |
| August 2025 | $3.3 billion |
Source: Canva statements via Business Wire (August 2023), Campaign India (April 2025) and Fortune (August 2025)
How Many People Use Canva in 2026?
Canva had more than 265 million monthly active users at the end of 2025, a 20% rise over the year. This is the most recent exact count the company has published. In its April 2026 launch post for Canva AI 2.0, Canva described its reach as more than a quarter of a billion people every month.
Source: TechCrunch, February 2026; Canva Newsroom, April 2026
Monthly users nearly doubled between August 2023 and the end of 2025, based on figures Canva gave at each milestone.
Source: Canva statements via Business Wire (August 2023), Campaign India (April 2024 and April 2025), Fortune (August 2025) and TechCrunch (end of 2025)
Paid users rose from 27 million in August 2025 to more than 31 million by the end of 2025. To win more paying users, Canva introduced lower-priced subscriptions in Pakistan, Uruguay, Morocco and Jamaica.
Source: Fortune, August 2025; TechCrunch, February 2026
The platform is available in 190 countries and in more than 100 languages.
Source: Canva About page, October 2026
Canva Valuation Drops to $34.9 Billion in August 2026 Marks
| Investor | Implied Canva valuation | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin Templeton | US$39.3 billion | June quarter 2026 |
| T. Rowe Price | US$38.2 billion | 2026 filing |
| Blackbird | US$34.9 billion | August 2026 |
Source: Forbes Australia, investor marks and US regulatory filings, 2026
US backers lowered their marks in filings with the US financial regulator. T. Rowe Price’s implied value was 9.1% below the US$42 billion it had assigned at the start of 2026.
Blackbird and AirTree cut their mark 17% to US34.9billion.Private-sharebrokerHiiveofferedCanvastockatanimpliedvaluationofaboutUS30 billion, a 29% discount.
Source: SmartCompany, August 2026
Canva’s own independent valuation for its annual employee share issue fell about 20% to US31billion,fromUS38.9 billion a year earlier. The Next Web noted that no shares were bought or sold at these marks.
Source: SmartCompany, August 2026; The Next Web, August 2026
Is Canva Going Public?
Canva has not set a listing date. Obrecht told Bloomberg in November 2025 that the company would go public within the next couple of years.
Source: TechCrunch, February 2026
Derek Hernandez, a PitchBook analyst, told Fortune that Canva might target 2027. Startup Daily reported that the markdowns could push back a touted 2027 US float.
Source: Fortune, August 2026; Startup Daily, August 2026
What Do Canva AI Statistics Show About Costs?
Canva AI 2.0 opened as a research preview in April 2026. It runs on the Canva Design Model, which Canva describes as a foundation model built for real-world design.
Source: Canva Newsroom, April 2026
Perkins told Fortune that demand for the new AI features exceeded Canva’s expectations. Canva AI users were creating three times as many designs as they did with the previous version.
Since the April launch, the cost of completing one AI task has fallen by nearly 90%, Perkins said.
Source: Fortune, August 2026
Canva’s in-house image model costs 30 times less to run than a frontier model, and its video model costs 17 times less. Frontier models come from the large AI vendors tracked in these artificial intelligence market statistics.
Source: Startup Daily, reporting Canva’s Q2 CY2026 shareholder letter, August 2026
Canva’s AI tool for building mini apps and websites had more than 10 million monthly active users in February 2026.
By October 2025, users had held more than 26 million conversations with the Canva app inside ChatGPT, one of the assistants covered in chatbot market size data.
Source: TechCrunch, February 2026
Canva said in August 2025 that its AI tools for video and design generation had been used more than 20 billion times. Its ChatGPT and Claude integrations tie it to platforms ranked in AI market share by company figures.
Source: Forbes Australia, August 2025 (Canva statement); TechCrunch, February 2026
User Statistics for Canva by Segment
Students, Teachers and Schools
Canva reported 100 million teachers, students and administrators on its platform in October 2026. Canva Education is free. The company says it has given more than US$2.5 billion of product to schools and nonprofits.
Source: Canva Newsroom, October 2026
| Date | Education users | Group as described by Canva |
|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | 60 million | Students and teachers |
| June 2024 | 70 million | Teachers and students |
| October 2026 | 100 million | Teachers, students and administrators |
Source: Canva announcements via Business Wire (February and June 2024) and Canva Newsroom (October 2026)
The 2026 figure includes administrators, a group the 2024 releases did not name. In June 2024, education users made up nearly half of all Canva users, and 30 million of them were teachers.
Source: Canva via Business Wire, June 2024
The Canva Foundation has invested more than US$20 million in literacy and numeracy programs. Those programs reach more than 780,000 learners across 17 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Source: Canva Newsroom, October 2026
Businesses and Fortune 500 Companies
Canva says it is trusted by 95% of the Fortune 500. Expedia Group, Airbnb and Salesforce appear among its listed enterprise customers.
Source: Canva Enterprise page, October 2026
Canva’s B2B segment covers companies with more than 25 seats. It doubled in 2025 to reach $500 million in ARR. North America generates most of Canva’s revenue.
Source: TechCrunch, February 2026
Seat-based rollouts like these are part of the enterprise software trends covered in digital transformation market statistics.
FAQs
How many people use Canva in 2026?
Canva last published an exact count at the end of 2025: more than 265 million monthly active users. In April 2026, it described its reach as more than a quarter of a billion people each month.
How much revenue does Canva make?
Canva earned US$921.9 million in the June quarter of 2026, up 25.2% year over year. It ended 2025 with $4 billion in annual recurring revenue and now expects about 20% growth in 2026.
What is Canva worth in 2026?
Blackbird and AirTree marked Canva at US34.9billioninAugust2026.Thatisdown17%fromtheUS42 billion set in the August 2025 employee share sale. Hiive pricing implied about US$30 billion.
When will Canva go public?
Canva has not set a date. Cliff Obrecht said in November 2025 that a listing would come within a couple of years. A PitchBook analyst told Fortune in August 2026 that Canva might target 2027.
How many Canva users pay, a common question on Reddit?
More than 31 million users were on paid Canva plans at the end of 2025. That compares with over 265 million monthly active users, according to figures Canva shared with TechCrunch.
Sources
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-in-revenue-as-llm-referral-traffic-rises/
https://fortune.com/2026/08/12/canva-startup-growth-ai-costs-revenue-forecast-by-third/
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/world-teachers-day-2026/
https://smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/canva-wiped-11-billion-from-valuation
