This is true. At our company they rolled out ChatGPT with Codex. After two months of happily using it, I got a call from the IT OPs telling me I burnt through four hundred million tokens, 200m a month. And created at least a thousand euro bill. That’s after I used all the credit, but I don’t have all details. The guy told me to „watch my usage.“ What does that even mean. He doesn’t use it himself and apparently he doesn’t know how value is created here and how he can monitor and limit usage.

Did OpenAI switch from fixed prices per seat to usage based? This will surprise many companies I reckon.

Personally I use Claude Code, the 200 euro plan. And am a heavy user. A few weeks ago I realized that CC shows the token usage in cli, in the bottom right. Something I never cared about because I thought paying 200 euro a month will give me „unlimited“ access.

But I guess the party is slowly coming to an end? Prices are going to increase slowly? And the flatrates will be removed eventually?

Too bad, it was nice while it lasted.