Commercial perfomance

According to Hanteo Chart, Ate sold 1,654,332 copies on its release date, becoming Stray Kids' fourth album to reach this milestone, following Maxident (2022), 5-Star, and Rock-Star (both 2023). In South Korea, the EP debuted at number one and the Nemo format at number four on the Circle Album Chart, selling 2,654,572 and 199,840 copies, respectively. It sold 2,723,327 CDs and 210,794 Nemo copies in July, and later surpassed 3 million cumulative copies as of early August. Ate received two-million certification in September. Internationally, Ate topped the French SNEP Top Albums for two non-consecutive weeks with 17,992 and 4,760 album-equivalent units, respectively, Belgian Ultratop Albums Top 200 in both Flanders and Wallonia regions, and Greek Top Albums Sales for seven consecutive weeks, etc. The EP reached number two on the Australian, German, Japanese, and Swiss album charts, etc. In December 2024, Ate received gold certification from the Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (SNEP).

In the United States, Ate entered Billboard 200 at number one, becoming the first musical group to top the chart with their first five-consecutive charted albums, and the second overall act to do so after DMX. It was also the 25th mostly non-English-language album to top the chart and the second in 2024 after labelmate Twice's With You-th. According to Luminate, the EP sold 232,000 album-equivalent units—the biggest sales week by a Korean act, and the sixth overall of 2024—comprising 218,000 pure copies and 19.05 million on-demand streams; the former making the EP the K-pop largest sales week and the second overall, following 1.91-million copies of Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department. It resulted in Stray Kids re-topping the Artist 100 for fourth week. The EP also topped three other charts: Top Album Sales and Top Current Album Sales for two consecutive weeks, and World Albums for eight non-consecutive weeks. Four tracks from the EP: "Chk Chk Boom", "Mountains", "Jjam", and "Twilight", entered World Digital Song Sales at number one, seven, nine, and ten, respectively. In October, JYP reported that Ate becoming the best-selling Korean-language and fourth overall pure album in the United States as of September, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the EP gold, surpassing 500,000 units in the country.