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The $2M belongs to the 90th-percentile researcher at OpenAI: $7,047 × ~260 working days
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The report says OpenAI researchers’ median coding-agent use reached $601 a day at API list prices by mid-August 2026, with usage roughly doubling each month. Those list-price estimates do not show what OpenAI actually spends.
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> OpenAI's median researcher used $601 of coding-agent inference a day (about $1.8M a year, r) at API prices, up from under $1, in January 2026.
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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.
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