OpenAI power users burn billions of tokens daily; Navier-Stokes project hits trillions of input tokens
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-24
Per AI tracker scaling01, the 90th percentile of OpenAI's heaviest users ("tokenmaxxers") consume a few billion total tokens per day (input + output). The Navier-Stokes project dwarfs that: 130B output tokens and trillions of input tokens daily. The exchange discusses how wild those usage numbers are.
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