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NoChatGPT, Codex · 17 May 2026

I got a call from the IT OPs telling me I burnt through four hundred million tokens, 200m a month

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burnt through four hundred million tokens, 200m a month

In the thread “AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise”

Got in the way: Unaware of token limits and usage-based billing model.

… At our company they rolled out ChatGPT with Codex. After two months of happily using it, I got a call from the IT OPs telling me I burnt through four hundred million tokens, 200m a month. And created at least a thousand euro bill. …