# OpenAI 員工以高額 AI 代幣消費聞名。

*genai · news · 2026-06-03 · Business Insider*

## Key points

- OpenAI 內部最高代幣使用者目前每月約消耗 1000 億代幣。
- OpenAI 外部有人超越公司內部最高代幣消費者，Altman 稱此事令人尷尬。
- 根據內部截圖，OpenAI 員工在 30 天內最高消耗達 6030 億代幣。
- 亞馬遜和 Uber 等其他公司因成本上升，現正限制或上限員工代幣使用量。
- Sam Altman 表示，對 AI 代幣成本的擔憂在 2026 年突然成為重大議題。

OpenAI's employees are spending tokens on tokens on tokens. And yet it's someone outside the company who is spending the most. The AI lab's employees are known for their high AI spending. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, once spent $1.3 million worth of tokens in a month. During a Tuesday enterprise event, CEO Sam Altman talked about the company's highest token spender. Six and a half years ago, OpenAI's top token burner went through 100,000 a month, Altman said. That was "very likely the token leader in the world," he said. "Today, 6.5 years later, that is about the per capita average in the world," Altman said, "and the token leader at OpenAI uses about 100 billion tokens a month." That's not the top token spender in the world, though. Altman said that the company found someone outside the company who spent more — something he called a personal "embarrassment." OpenAI has a culture of token spending. The company reportedly has a token leaderboard, and employees sometimes flex their high totals on X. It helps, of course, that OpenAI also sells the tokens. In some other examples, OpenAI employees seemed to spend even more than 100 billion tokens in a month. Steinberger's screenshot showed 603 billion tokens spent in 30 days. The New York Times reported that one OpenAI employee spent 210 billion tokens in a week. While OpenAI unleashes its tokens, other companies are tightening up. Amazon shut down its token leaderboard, and Uber reportedly set token caps after its COO said that the spending was becoming harder to justify. On the panel, Altman referenced the meme: "My company spent my entire 2026 budget in Q1, can you make this more efficient?" Altman said the company was continuing to push its models and explore other ways to deliver "more value for less spend." He also said that the cost question came up quite suddenly. At the beginning of 2026, "the issue never came up," Altman said. "People were totally happy with the amount they were spending," he said. Now, AI costs are "a huge issue," he said.

**Companies:** OpenAI, Uber, Amazon
**Countries:** United States

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