capital · May 21, 2026
Peter Steinberger spent $1.305 million on OpenAI API tokens in 30 days for OpenClaw
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Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw creator and OpenAI engineer since February 2026, spent $1,305,088.81 on OpenAI API tokens over 30 days in 2026. The spending covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests while running 100 Codex instances for OpenClaw development. OpenAI covered the bill as a research investment. OpenClaw is the open-source AI agent project that reached 302,000 GitHub stars by April 2026. Steinberger posted a screenshot of the bill on X.
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