OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million OpenAI bill shines light on AI coding costs
← Back to News Peter Steinberger, the engineer behind the open‑source project OpenClaw, racked up a $1.3 million charge on the OpenAI API in a single month while running about 100 Codex instances. The bill, covered by OpenAI as a research investment, represents 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and offers the first public glimpse of how much autonomous AI‑driven software development can cost at scale. Read more
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