OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, Pete Steinberger, then users could be in for some huge usage bills.
Steinberger, now working for OpenAI, spent $10 million on AI tokens there last month, he told Cloudflare CEO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 Conference in San Francisco.
The conversation was reported by The Register, which noted Knecht’s remark that Steinberger had “a virtually unlimited token budget, which not all of us in the room have,” and Steinberger’s response, “What people don’t always understand is not all of that is useful.”
