How many people play Free Fire? Players and revenue
Garena, Free Fire's publisher, had 666.3 million quarterly active users in Q2 2026 and $2.9 billion of bookings.
Garena, the Sea Limited games business whose flagship is Free Fire, had 666.3 million quarterly active users and 68.1 million paying users in April to June 2026, Sea reported. Free Fire itself set a record of more than 150 million daily players in April to June 2021, and players spent $2.9 billion with Garena in 2025, up from $2.1 billion in 2024.
Free Fire, developed by 111dots Studio and published by Garena, became a sensation after its 2017 release. Playable on almost any phone, with an enhanced Free Fire MAX version, it’s a hit in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and South America. Despite competition from Fortnite and PUBG Mobile, Free Fire holds its ground. Here’s how many people play it, and how much they spend.
Free Fire key statistics
- 666.3 million: Garena quarterly active users, April to June 2026.
- 68.1 million: Garena paying users in the same quarter, up from 50.4 million at the end of 2024.
- 150 million+: Free Fire’s record for players in a single day, April to June 2021.
- $2.9 billion: Garena bookings, the money players spend, in 2025.
- 1 billion+: Free Fire downloads on Google Play by mid-2021.
- $2.01 million: the prize pool of the Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore, the game’s biggest.
Free Fire user stats
Garena had 666.3 million quarterly players in April to June 2026
Sea reports players for Garena as a whole, and Free Fire is its biggest game.
| Quarter | Garena quarterly active users |
|---|---|
| Q4 2021 | 654.0 million |
| Q4 2023 | 528.7 million |
| Q4 2024 | 618.0 million |
| Q4 2025 | 633.3 million |
| Q2 2026 | 666.3 million |
| Quarter | Paying users | Share of active users |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | 50.4 million | 8.2% |
| Q4 2025 | 58.0 million | 9.2% |
| Q2 2026 | 68.1 million | 10.2% |
Figures from Sea’s quarterly results (Q4 2025, Q4 2024, Q4 2021). In 2025, Garena connected with about 100 million players on an average day, Sea chief executive Forrest Li said.
Free Fire had a record of more than 150 million daily players in 2021
- Free Fire passed 150 million peak daily active users in April to June 2021, a new record, Sea reported.
- It first passed 100 million peak daily players in April to June 2020.
- Earlier in 2020 it passed 60 million daily players in March, then 80 million by May, PocketGamer.biz reported.
Is Free Fire dying? No. Garena’s quarterly active users climbed from 528.7 million at the end of 2023 to 666.3 million in April to June 2026, above the 2021 level, and paying users rose to 68.1 million.
Free Fire’s success is fuelled by its strong engagement in populous countries like Brazil and India. Its upgraded MAX version, with HD graphics, also helps it gain players with more powerful phones.
Free Fire has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on Google Play
- Free Fire passed 1 billion downloads on Google Play in April to June 2021, the first mobile battle royale game to do so, Sea said.
- It ranked third in the world by average monthly active users on Google Play in that quarter, and second for the whole of 2021.
- By November 2019, Free Fire had more than 450 million registered users, PocketGamer.biz reported.
- 73 million new players joined in January to March 2019 alone, Sensor Tower said. 20% of them were from Brazil, followed by India (16%) and Indonesia (14%).
Free Fire came with an excellent deal: the game runs on almost any phone, and runs properly. In countries like Brazil or India, where not everyone can afford a high-end phone, that was perfect. It’s also why its most loyal players are in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America.
Free Fire revenue
Garena’s bookings reached $2.9 billion in 2025
| Year | Garena bookings |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $4.6 billion |
| 2022 | $2.8 billion |
| 2023 | $1.8 billion |
| 2024 | $2.1 billion |
| 2025 | $2.9 billion |
- Garena’s bookings were $763.5 million in April to June 2026.
- Its 2025 revenue, the accounting figure, was $2.4 billion.
- Free Fire passed $1 billion in lifetime revenue by the end of October 2019, about two years after launch, Sea said.
- Players spent more than $1.1 billion on Free Fire on the App Store and Google Play in 2021, Sensor Tower estimated, PocketGamer.biz reported.
- In January to March 2019, Free Fire brought in $90 million, its best quarter at the time, Sensor Tower said. Brazil accounted for $27.9 million, Thailand for $9.9 million, and the US for $8.5 million.
- In April to June 2021, Free Fire was the highest-grossing mobile game in Southeast Asia, Latin America and India, and the second highest-grossing game on Google Play in the US, Sea said.
Free Fire is free to play. Like many other battle royale games, it sells mostly cosmetics and other items you don’t need to finish or enjoy the game: costumes, pets, battle passes and characters, all bought with diamonds, the in-game currency. Events and goals also reward players with diamonds.
Free Fire esports
With fast matches of about 10 minutes, Free Fire was made for esports. The game started with local tournaments and quickly grew into one of the most active esports scenes, helping shape how esports is seen in Asia and Latin America.
The biggest Free Fire prize pool was $2.01 million
- It was the prize pool of the Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore.
- Free Fire tournaments had awarded $23.3 million in prize money across 125 tournaments by October 2026, Esports Earnings shows.
- The next biggest prize pools were the Free Fire World Series 2022 Sentosa ($1.82 million) and 2022 Bangkok ($1.78 million).
Thailand’s players have earned the most Free Fire prize money
| Country | Prize money, by October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Thailand | $5.9 million |
| Indonesia | $5.3 million |
| Brazil | $4.5 million |
| Vietnam | $1.8 million |
| Argentina | $655,000 |
- The top-earning player is Thailand’s Joena, with $544,865, followed by Moshi ($439,287) and GetHigh ($427,050), also from Thailand.
Thai players dominate the top of the list, followed by Indonesian and Brazilian players. Brazil, where the game is hugely popular, has a long list of players in the top earners too.
The Free Fire World Series 2021 drew more than 5.4 million viewers at once
- The May 2021 event in Singapore set a record of over 5.4 million peak concurrent online viewers, Sea said.
- The Free Fire World Series 2019 had drawn more than 2 million viewers at once.
That was more viewers at once than almost any esports event before it. Not bad for a game that “people don’t know”.