GTA 5 has made around 9–10 billion dollars in total revenue worldwide when you combine game sales and GTA Online earnings, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment products ever created.

Quick Scoop

  • GTA 5 passed 1 billion dollars in just 3 days after launch, setting an entertainment record across all media.
  • By around late 2023 to early 2025 , reported lifetime revenue ranged from roughly 8.5 to nearly 10 billion dollars (including GTA Online).
  • The wider Grand Theft Auto franchise has earned about 9.7+ billion dollars since GTA 5 released, so GTA 5 and GTA Online are clearly the dominant share of that.

Key Milestones (Money-wise)

  • First 24 hours: about 815 million dollars in revenue.
  • First 3 days: over 1 billion dollars.
  • By mid‑2010s: already several billion in sales from copies alone, before GTA Online really peaked.
  • 2020 and beyond: GTA Online and re‑releases kept it earning hundreds of millions per year , pushing totals toward that ~10 billion mark.

Simple takeaway

If you’re just looking for one clean number people use in discussions and news posts right now, most estimates and breakdowns put GTA 5’s lifetime revenue in the high single digits to about 10 billion dollars in total.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.