MacroVoices · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Matt Barrie shared that his extensive use of AI agents resulted in a daily token usage of 4 billion, costing approximately $1300. This spend was primarily on Anthropic's models, with some usage of Google's models for specific tasks like writing tickets for an AI software engineering team.
“So I went and looked at my open router token usage for that day. And it came in at um, 4 billion tokens in one day. And that's 4 billion with a B.”
“That cost me about $1300 US dollars.”
“Now, I was using Western models, I mean, $900 of it was on Anthropic's model, which they're cheaper, faster models. There's a little bit of Gcroroc in there for doing things like writing effective tickets to feed into our AI software engineering team.”