OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month
- May 19
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TOM’S HARDWARE — Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw who joined OpenAI in February, posted a screenshot of his API usage dashboard on Friday showing $1,305,088.81 in OpenAI spending over 30 days.
The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances operated by a team of three people working on the open-source OpenClaw project. OpenAI, which employs Steinberger, covers the cost.
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