OpenClaw creator estimates $10 million token spend last month

·2026.10.22 05:40

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Peter Steinberger revealed the high cost during a Cloudflare Connect 2026 session, noting that not all token usage is useful.

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw and member of technical staff at OpenAI, estimated he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month.
Steinberger stated that not all of that token usage is useful, a comment that drew audible surprise from the audience at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 conference.
He argued that current infrastructure structures have not caught up, questioning why workloads still run on local computers rather than in the cloud.
Steinberger suggested using a second agent to authorize the permissions of a primary agent, noting that this negotiation process increases trust and keeps actions within guardrails.

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