Mobile App Average Cost per Install (CPI)

Mobile App Average Cost per Install (CPI) is the average cost an advertiser pays to acquire one install, calculated by dividing total spend by total installs.

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Updated: Q1 2026
Singular
Singular is a marketing analytics and attribution platform, helping businesses unify marketing data, measure campaign performance and ROI, and optimize growth across channels, devices, and customer touchpoints.
Updated: Q1 2026
Singular
Singular’s quarterly trends report is based on data analysis of its mobile marketing platform, including billions of dollars in ad spend, trillions of impressions, billions of installs, and tens of billions of clicks from apps actively spending on user acquisition. Data is collected from partner ad networks and media sources through Singular connectors, including APIs, secure file transfer protocol (SFTP), and file-based ingestion. It’s then combined with attribution-tracker, revenue, event, and SKAdNetwork data. Singular standardizes and reconciles partner fields across OS, region, vertical, genre, and network.
Updated: Q1 2026
Singular
Data represents activity among Singular clients, broader industry metrics may vary. Mobile App Average Cost per Install (CPI) is the average cost an advertiser pays to acquire one install, calculated by dividing total spend by total installs.
Updated: Q1 2026
Singular
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