OpenAI Coding Agents: What $600 a Day and 3.1 Agent-Workdays Really Mean
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September 14, 2026
OpenAI says its median researcher now uses more than $600 a day of coding-agent inference and its research org runs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday. Here is what the data really means for developers and engineering teams.