OpenAI data: median researcher spends $600/day on agents, top 10% spend $7,000
Saboo_Shubham_ · x · 2026-09-07
OpenAI published data on its own researchers' agent usage: the median researcher spends about $600 per day on agents, while the top 10% spend $7,000 per day. The company now runs 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday, offering a rare inside look at how intensively frontier labs deploy agents and what that costs.
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