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To me this is clearly a skill issue. Several millions of tokens per day is peanuts, even if uncached. gpt-5.5 is $5 per million of input tokens.

Anybody doing things seriously understand how to optimize their workflows for smaller models once they start to lock in processes.

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You talk without even knowing what the thing is about. It is easy peasy to spend millions of tokens per minute if you have the content for it.

This is not about you chatting with your char gpt window for sure.

The expensive tokens are output, not input. A useful rule of thumb is that a million tokens per day means about ~10 tok/s on a 24/7 basis.

Even then, i highly doubt any sort of automation is producing on the order of several millions of tokens daily. The issue I see with the org in parent comment seems to stem from management and not any sort of token repricing.

I can't say more. But it is totally possible.

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