OpenAI Researchers May Burn Over $4M/Day in Tokens at API Prices

abtin · reddit · 2026-09-24

A blog post estimates that OpenAI's researchers could be spending more than $4 million per day on tokens if billed at public API prices — a rough gauge of how intensively frontier-lab researchers lean on their own models, and of the gap between internal compute costs and API pricing.

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