Developer Reports Spending Over $1M on OpenAI Codex This Year
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-08-03
Developer @cloneofsimo revealed on X that they have spent over $1 million using OpenAI's Codex this year. This staggering bill directly reflects the massive computational costs associated with heavily relying on LLMs for programming or large-scale API integration.
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