Estimate: OpenAI burned $500K-$1M in inference compute on a single solution
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-09
An estimate puts OpenAI's inference cost for producing one solution at roughly $500K-$1M — equivalent to 1,500-3,000 GB300 GPUs billed at $4/hr. The author notes per-GPU effective throughput is unknown, but the scale of compute is striking.
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