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OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days Running 100 Coding Agents

Peter Steinberger at OpenAI runs ~100 Codex instances that code, review PRs, find bugs, deduplicate issues. 30-day bill: $1.3M for 603B tokens, 7.6M requests. Without fast mode ~$300K. Top model: GPT-5.5. Explores software dev when token cost is irrelevant.

Product Idea from this Signal

A CLI tool that audits multi-agent fleet token spend across providers, flags cost anomalies per agent, and enforces per-workflow budget caps before bills spiral

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger revealed a $1.3M monthly OpenAI bill running 100 coding agents. Most teams running 5-50 agents have no visibility into which agent is burning tokens, which workflows are cost-efficient, and where spend is leaking. Existing tools (Helicone, Portkey) focus on single-agent observability. No tool gives fleet-level cost attribution with per-agent anomaly detection and hard budget enforcement across multiple LLM providers simultaneously.

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HN

830

Reddit

505

BLOG

350

Social Proof 4 sources

OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

For $1.3M a month, OpenClaw founder runs 100 AI agents that code and review PRs

OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3M in OpenAI API tokens — Tom's Hardware

Creator of OpenClaw used $1.3M of OpenAI tokens in 30 days — PC Gamer

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1,685

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Top ideas

0A GitHub App that enforces AI agent contribution policies, detects bot-authored PRs, and blocks retaliatory behavior after maintainer rejection 0A local-first sales automation framework that turns OpenClaw agents into autonomous SDRs with prospecting, enrichment, sequencing, and deal tracking running entirely on your machine 0A runtime middleware that verifies messaging channel user identities against platform-native stable IDs before any command reaches an OpenClaw agent

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