--- title: 1.3million USD on tokens in one month! A nice amount of... description: Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw and working at OpenAI, runs roughly 100 Codex AI agents that autonomously code, review PRs, find... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/1-3million-usd-on-tokens-in-one-month-a-nice-amount-of-tokens-soon-project-will-be-renamed-to-ope-7p8nq44fu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 1.3million USD on tokens in one month! A nice amount of tokens. Soon project will be renamed to OpenClaws .. (Just joking, but that amount of tokens must better be able to grow the software wildly.) | daily.dev og:description: Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw and working at OpenAI, runs roughly 100 Codex AI agents that autonomously code, review PRs, find... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/1-3million-usd-on-tokens-in-one-month-a-nice-amount-of-tokens-soon-project-will-be-renamed-to-ope-7p8nq44fu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7p8nQ44Fu.png og:image:alt: 1.3million USD on tokens in one month! A nice amount of tokens. Soon project will be renamed to OpenClaws .. (Just joking, but that amount of tokens must better be able to grow the software wildly.) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 1.3million USD on tokens in one month! A nice amount of tokens. Soon project will be renamed to OpenClaws .. (Just joking, but that amount of tokens must better be able to grow the software wildly.) **[Jacob B. Bonde](https://daily.dev/sources/5cqvizkr5tdfdotvdjulg)** · [@byteoutlaw](https://daily.dev/byteoutlaw) · 31 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw and working at OpenAI, runs roughly 100 Codex AI agents that autonomously code, review PRs, find security bugs, deduplicate issues, and even listen to meetings to open PRs for discussed features. The team's OpenAI API bill reached $1.3 million in 30 days for 603 billion tokens and 7.6 million requests, with OpenAI covering the cost. Steinberger frames the spend as research into what software development looks like when token costs are irrelevant, noting that disabling 'Fast Mode' alone would cut costs by 70%. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nevenbridge** · 15 upvotes > Must feel good being paid to work at maximum inefficiency. I would be fired. **@gabrielgn** · 10 upvotes > Corporate bs is funny sometimes. Years ago they were flexing on how many engineers they were hiring. Then how good they were paying their engineers. Then they were flexing on how low they got to pay their enginieers. Then the flex was to replace due to AI. Then "Look at me, i'm spending millions on AI". Soon, the new flex is going to be on how many engineers they were hiring again. **@startages** · 2 upvotes > What a waste of money **@sayanmondal** · 1 upvotes > That $1.3M token bill sounds absurd at first, but as an experiment it is actually fascinating. If token cost becomes negligible, software teams may shift from “one engineer using one assistant” to “one engineer orchestrating hundreds of agents.” The real question is not whether agents can write code, but whether they can produce maintainable, secure, reviewable systems at scale. **@byteoutlaw** · 0 upvotes > I think a vps with OpenClaw or Hermes is next step. To see how wild it is 😜 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review), [#codex](https://daily.dev/tags/codex) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/1-3million-usd-on-tokens-in-one-month-a-nice-amount-of-tokens-soon-project-will-be-renamed-to-ope-7p8nq44fu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/1-3million-usd-on-tokens-in-one-month-a-nice-amount-of-tokens-soon-project-will-be-renamed-to-ope-7p8nq44fu","headline":"1.3million USD on tokens in one month! 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