The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests from 100 Codex instances running GPT-5.5. Disabling Fast Mode would cut the cost to $300,000, but the figure reveals the true economics of autonomous AI development.

A three-person team led by Peter Steinberger keeps about 100 Codex instances running for the open-source project OpenClaw, driving OpenAI API spend to $1.3 million a month.…

Peter Steinberger's three-person team runs 100 AI coding agents on OpenAI's tab.