OpenAI 研究员人均每月烧掉 601 美元编程智能体推理费
Epoch AI 算了笔账：OpenAI 研究员一天烧 601 美元编码智能体推理费，一年 200 万美元，快赶上雇人的钱了。
Epoch AI 报告显示，按 API 列价计算，OpenAI 研究员使用编码智能体的推理费用大约每月翻倍。2026 年 1 月，中位数研究员每天花费 601 美元，而此前不到 1 美元。到 2026 年 8 月中，日花费达 601 美元、年化约 200 万美元，接近甚至超过雇佣一名研究员的成本。报告同时指出，这一增速难以持续，再翻倍一年将达到人均约 1.85 亿美元。
OpenAI's median researcher used $601 of coding-agent inference a day at API prices, up from under $1, in January 2026.
Eoch AI's new report.
> OpenAI researchers' coding-agent usage, valued at API list prices, is doubling roughly every month
> By mid-August 2026, the median researcher used $601 a day and about $2M a year, roughly matching or exceeding what employing a researcher costs.
> This pace probably can't last, since one more year would reach about $185M per median researcher, and list-price figures reveal nothing about what OpenAI actually spends.
