OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

After trying openclaw a bit myself, no wonder. Without the best models, capabilities drop significantly. And I guess he has a lot of automations and stuff, which explains the 19'000 daily spend. I hit my personal spend limit when it cost like 40 USD to get Google auth tokens working. Which is very complicated when you run openclaw on a vps. And it even broke like a week after. Maybe one could justify the 40usd if it would save my time instead. But I was babysitting openclaw doing it anyhow. So I actually double spend. Money plus time.

Btw, same frustration for me setting up signal, Whatsapp or slack...

Re: OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

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Post by boesboes » Sat, May 16, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

He should be brought to the hague XD

Re: OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

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Post by Avicebron » Sat, May 16, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC

mtct88 wrote: post #2

It's a very peculiar way to flex.

It's like the nerd equivalent of rolling coal?

Re: OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

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Post by MadxX79 » Sat, May 16, 2026, 12:26 PM UTC

thomasahle wrote: post #6

He used 600B tokens in 30 days. I use more than 150B/month with just 15 codex accounts. 60 accounts is "just" $12,000/month. So Peter could "save" 100x by using monthly accounts. Of course, he doesn't have to, as he works at OpenAI now.

Sounds like a healthy industry, selling tokens at 1000x below cost.