Two engineers burned $500K in API usage in one month — $6M annualized
bingxu_ · x · 2026-11-10
Bing Xu reveals his team spent $500K on API usage for just two engineers last month, annualizing to $6M a year.
Using a power-law model, he estimates their per-employee AI spend puts them in the top 0.0025% of all companies. He plans to publish a write-up on what they've learned from consuming this many tokens.
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