Food delivery stopped being a pandemic habit and became infrastructure, and no company shows that better than DoorDash. What started in 2013 as a Stanford class project to deliver for a handful of Palo Alto restaurants is now a public company (NASDAQ: DASH) processing more than 3 billion orders a year across 40-plus countries, with a share of US meal delivery its rivals have not been able to crack.
The headline shift in 2026 is that DoorDash is no longer just big, it is finally and durably profitable, while still growing revenue near 30% a year and pushing hard into groceries, retail and international markets. Below are the latest DoorDash statistics, refreshed from DoorDash’s full-year 2025 results and current market data.
DoorDash’s Business at a Glance
DoorDash was founded in 2013 by Stanford students Tony Xu, Andy Fang, Stanley Tang and Evan Moore, built on a simple logistics idea: connect local merchants, independent couriers called Dashers, and customers through one app. It went public in December 2020 and has since expanded well beyond restaurants into grocery, convenience, alcohol and general retail, and abroad through Wolt and its 2025 acquisition of Deliveroo.
DoorDash Earned $13.7 Billion in Revenue in 2025
DoorDash’s total revenue reached $13.7 billion in 2025, up 28% from $10.7 billion in 2024. Fourth-quarter revenue alone was nearly $4.0 billion, a 38% year-over-year increase.
The bigger story is profitability. After years of net losses, DoorDash reported GAAP net income of $935 million attributable to common stockholders for full-year 2025, with $213 million of that in the fourth quarter alone. Adjusted EBITDA in Q4 2025 rose 38% year over year to $780 million. DoorDash is now growing revenue near 30% while turning that growth into real bottom-line profit.
DoorDash Processed More Than 3.1 Billion Orders in 2025
Order volume is the engine underneath the revenue. DoorDash completed more than 3.1 billion orders in 2025, up from 2.6 billion in 2024. In the fourth quarter, total orders reached 903 million, a 32% year-over-year increase, with roughly 20% of that growth coming from the core business and the rest from the Deliveroo acquisition.
That order growth is not slowing. Every quarter of 2025 set a new record, from about 732 million orders in the first quarter to 903 million in the fourth.
DoorDash Drove Over $100 Billion in Gross Order Value
Gross order value (GOV), the total dollar value of everything ordered through the platform, topped $100 billion in 2025, up from $80.2 billion in 2024. Marketplace GOV grew 27% year over year for the full year, or 23% excluding the impact of Deliveroo.
In the fourth quarter alone, marketplace GOV jumped 39% year over year to $29.7 billion. GOV matters because DoorDash’s revenue is essentially a take rate on this number, so the widening gap between GOV and orders shows customers are spending more per order as grocery and retail baskets grow.
Who Uses DoorDash
DoorDash Has More Than 56 Million Monthly Active Users
DoorDash exited 2025 with over 56 million monthly active users, up from more than 42 million a year earlier. Consumer count, order frequency and the Deliveroo acquisition all contributed, and average engagement per user reached an all-time high.
More Than 35 Million People Pay for a Membership
DoorDash’s subscription program is one of its stickiest assets. The company reported more than 35 million paid members across DashPass, Wolt+ and Deliveroo Plus as of Q4 2025. Members order more often and spend more, which is why DoorDash keeps bundling in perks and partner benefits to grow that base.
Roughly $20 Billion Earned by Dashers in 2025
On the supply side, DoorDash’s independent couriers earned more than $20 billion in 2025. Backlinko estimates the platform had over 8 million active Dashers delivering across its marketplaces, reflecting how central flexible gig work has become to the broader gig economy.
DoorDash also works with hundreds of thousands of merchants, around 600,000 by Backlinko’s count, and generated nearly $75 billion in sales for local merchants across 40-plus countries in 2025.
DoorDash’s Market Position
DoorDash Holds Roughly Two-Thirds of US Meal Delivery
DoorDash is the clear leader in US food delivery. Recent tracking data puts its share of US meal delivery sales at about 67%, far ahead of Uber Eats at roughly 23% and Grubhub at close to 8%. That lead has been remarkably stable, and DoorDash has generally gained share rather than lost it as the category matured.
Estimates vary by methodology. Broader measures that fold in grocery and other categories put DoorDash’s share nearer 56%, but every credible source agrees DoorDash sits at the top and no single rival is close.
The US Food Delivery Market Keeps Growing
DoorDash is riding an expanding market. The US online food delivery sector is valued in the tens of billions and still growing, with DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub competing for a share of a market analysts size at more than $74 billion. DoorDash’s strategy has been to grow the pie, pushing delivery into new categories rather than just fighting over restaurant orders.
DoorDash Beyond Restaurants
Groceries, Retail and New Verticals Are the Next Leg of Growth
Restaurants built DoorDash, but its future increasingly runs through everything else. The company now delivers groceries, convenience items, alcohol, flowers, electronics and more, and these newer verticals are growing faster than the core restaurant business. Larger grocery and retail baskets are a big reason gross order value is climbing faster than order count.
Deliveroo and Wolt Extend DoorDash Internationally
DoorDash’s 2025 acquisition of Deliveroo, combined with its earlier purchase of Wolt, pushed the company into more than 40 countries and added roughly 12 percentage points of order growth in the fourth quarter of 2025. International expansion is how DoorDash keeps its overall growth rate high even as the US restaurant market matures.
How DoorDash Compares
DoorDash’s main rival at home is Uber Eats, which benefits from being bundled with Uber’s rides app, plus Grubhub, now owned by Wonder. Abroad it competes with Just Eat Takeaway, Delivery Hero and regional players.
DoorDash’s edge is scale and logistics density: more Dashers and more orders in a given market means faster, cheaper delivery, which attracts more customers and merchants in turn. That flywheel, plus its move into groceries and retail, is what has kept it ahead. The open question is whether Uber can use its rides bundle and international reach to close the gap, and whether DoorDash’s newer bets keep paying off.
The Bottom Line
The 2025 numbers tell a clear story. DoorDash is no longer just the biggest food delivery app in the US, it is a profitable, global on-demand logistics company: $13.7 billion in revenue up 28%, more than 3.1 billion orders, over $100 billion in gross order value, and $935 million in net income after years of losses.
With 56 million monthly active users, 35 million paying members and roughly two-thirds of US meal delivery, DoorDash’s challenge now is less about defending its lead and more about how far it can extend the model, into groceries, retail and dozens of new countries, without the growth or the profitability slipping.
