Peter Steinberger's 100 AI agents racked up $1.3 million in OpenAI tokens in 30 days building OpenClaw
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger spent $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in 30 days running 100 Codex instances on his open-source project. The bill, covered by OpenAI where Steinberger now works, represents 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and provides the most concrete public data point on the cost of autonomous AI coding at scale.
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