How much does 1T tokens cost? How much did all these amazing people spent on OpenAI tokens?

Posted by aospan@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 47 comments

I did some math as a follow-up to OpenAI’s Dev Day yesterday and decided to share it here.

Assuming GPT-5 with a 4:1 input:output token ratio, 1T tokens means 800,000 million input tokens at $1.25 per million, which is $1,000,000, plus 200,000 million output tokens at $10 per million, adding $2,000,000, for a total of $3,000,000 for 1T tokens.

On this photo, 30 people consumed 1T tokens, 70 people 100B tokens, and 54 people 10B tokens, totaling $112,620,000, which is roughly 3% of OpenAI’s total $3.7 billion revenue in 2024.

Curious - is it even possible to process this amount of tokens using local models? What would be the cost in GPUs and residential electricity? 🧐⚡️