Spawned sub-agents generated 318.7 billion of those tokens.
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NEWS: The token leader at OpenAI uses 100 billion tokens a month, CEO Sam Altman says, adding that this is not the token leader in the world "to my embarrassment."
Many users dismissed OpenAI claims of top users consuming 100-330 billion tokens monthly as meaningless metrics highlighting wasteful bot loops rather than useful output.
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Light work @OpenAI
Apparently, I’ve used 3x the tokens of OpenAI’s highest user in just the last 17 days
NEWS: The token leader at OpenAI uses 100 billion tokens a month, CEO Sam Altman says, adding that this is not the token leader in the world "to my embarrassment."
Sam Altman reveals that OpenAI’s top “token leader” uses 100B tokens every month, and still falls short of the world’s highest user.
Source: axios
--- axios. com/2026/06/02/altman-openai-top-token-user
@MadisonMills22 Token leader 👀 Is that an actual job title
quite low
NEWS: The token leader at OpenAI uses 100 billion tokens a month, CEO Sam Altman says, adding that this is not the token leader in the world "to my embarrassment."
@mattshumer_ @OpenAI my friend you cannot just ask your llm how many tokens you’ve used
> this guy This is the real problem, not "datacenters burn water"
Light work @OpenAI
Apparently, I’ve used 3x the tokens of OpenAI’s highest user in just the last 17 days
More here: https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/altman-openai-top-token-user
And this is just Codex, on one machine.
Doesn’t even include my other machine, Claude, and Agent-S tokens.
Tokens, when used correctly, are insane leverage.
Light work @OpenAI
Apparently, I’ve used 3x the tokens of OpenAI’s highest user in just the last 17 days
@MadisonMills22 am using more. trust
@MadisonMills22 And does anything meaningful come out of those tokens? Because I can spin almost infinite loops doing nothing productive in the end.
@MadisonMills22 our most expensive months have been $300k or more
@atmoio @OpenAI Yes you can… Codex keeps a state database on your local machine that you can pull from
@MadisonMills22
behind!
@altryne @OpenAI Yep! Codex on my Mac Mini, mostly controlled via Codex Mobile
@mattshumer_ @OpenAI this is you... personally? wtf
@mattshumer_ @OpenAI ah ok this is codex. looked like the web app from the screenshot
@MadisonMills22 @steipete probably?
@atmoio @mattshumer_ @OpenAI He just did. It may be wrong, but boy, did it answer
@trashpandaemoji @MadisonMills22 It’s almost a trillion!
@MadisonMills22 lol meaningless metric in actuality. Anyone can pump tokens by spinning up max amount of bots
@jsnnsa How much did you spend?