Developer earns just $2.60 per cycle running a bot on OpenAI-subsidized tokens
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-07
Developer TheMoonMidas reports his Hermes bot and a few ChatGPT chats are the main consumers of his OpenAI-subsidized token quota, earning just $2.60 with 8 hours left before reset — raising the question of what happens to such micro-businesses once the subsidies end. He's skipping the early reset and going "full tokenmaxxor" tomorrow.
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