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OpenAI token throughput and revenue growth claims

March 31, 2026Haider., Sherwin Wu, Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)

Several posts cite OpenAI claims of extreme token processing and rapid revenue growth, using these metrics to justify valuation and to compare API scale with Google.

processing 5 trillion tokens daily
With the OpenAI API zooming past 15B tokens/min
Every single day OpenAI alone produces more text than everything written by humanity ever.
they say 15 billion tok/min. That's 0.657 quadtrillion tok/month. Google claimed they were at >1 quadtrillion tok/month last year.
$2B per month -> now.
Haider.
Sherwin Wu
Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)
Naveen Rao
The Rundown AI
tokensscaleopenaigoogleapi keys

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