OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
Peter Steinberger said the bill reflects heavy AI workload use as cloud-hosted agents drive higher costs for developers.
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Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw and member of OpenAI, estimates that he spent about $10 million on AI tokens during the month before his public conversation. The figure illuminates a barrier that, according to him, limits the continued use of agents: the cost, along with an infrastructure and permission controls that still need to be improved.
Peter Steinberger, the creator of agent IA OpenClaw, estimates that he consumed the equivalent of $10 million in tokens in September on ChatGPT. He pays nothing: he works at OpenAI. His users, on request or by subscription, pay the mark, unless they run the AI at home.
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OpenClaw creator spent $10 million on AI tokens last month
OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, Pete Steinberger, then users could be in for some huge usage bills. Steinberger, now working for OpenAI, spent $10 million on AI tokens there last month, he told Cloudflare CEO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 Conference in San Francisco. The conversation was reported by The…
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