Power user's monthly AI bill: 7.9B Codex tokens, ~$4,800 API-equivalent on a subscription
bytebot · x · 2026-11-02
Developer bytebot shared October usage on a ChatGPT subscription: Codex consumed 7.9B tokens ($4,799 API-equivalent), plus 2.34B tokens via Ampcode on the same subscription ($1,833), and 771M Claude tokens ($289).
Preferences: likes gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra for computer use on high reasoning; opus-5.5 stays on medium. Now relies more on the ChatGPT desktop app but still prefers Codex in the terminal; Work is useful for non-coding tasks. A rare real-world datapoint on subscription-token economics for heavy users.
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