OpenAI's Internal Codex Spend Leaked: $700 Median, $7,000 for Top Users
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-26
Unverified figures claim OpenAI employees' internal Codex spending runs about $700 at the median, with the top 10% of users spending around $7,000 — a sign of how intensively the coding agent is used inside OpenAI and the compute cost it carries.
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