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CodexBar incurs 1.3 million dollars in OpenAI API costs

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CodexBar recorded 1,305,088.81 dollars in OpenAI API costs over a 30-day period while consuming 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests. Dashboard metrics showed a single-day peak of 19,985.84 dollars and 206,000 requests. The leading model by usage was gpt-5.5-2026-04-23. The figures were cited as an example of one user exceeding 1.3 million dollars in monthly token expenditure.

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$1.3 million in tokens in 1 month from 1 person.

12:33 PM · May 15, 2026 View on X

This is what you’re competing with.

$1.3 million in tokens in 30 days.

603b tokens in sum.

Burn more tokens or you’re not gonna make it.

Peter Steinberger 🦞Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://codex.bar

5:55 PM · May 15, 2026 · 1.7M Views
3:35 PM · May 16, 2026 · 14.9K Views

This is what you’re competing with.

1.3 million tokens in 30 days.

Burn more tokens or you’re not gonna make it.

Peter Steinberger 🦞Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://codex.bar

5:55 PM · May 15, 2026 · 1.7M Views
3:25 PM · May 16, 2026 · 1.3K Views

$1.3 million in tokens in 1 month from 1 person.

Peter Steinberger 🦞Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://codex.bar

5:55 PM · May 15, 2026 · 1.7M Views
7:33 PM · May 15, 2026 · 473.3K Views
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