OpenClaw’s creator used $1.3 million worth of AI tokens in a month and people are freaking out

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, who now works at OpenAI.">

• In the OpenClaw creator’s comments, users questioned the high total and asked for the budget to be reallocated to engineers.
• Steinberger wrote that he was testing the question: “How would we build software in the future if tokens don’t matter?”

“All that automation allows us to run this project extremely lean,” Steinberger wrote.

In the comments, some users said that a project spending $1.3 million in tokens a month couldn’t be “lean.”

The number may actually be bigger, too. On his original post, one user asked whether the number pictured was actually his usage.

“Yup!” he replied. “At least on this account.”