OpenAI's API throughput has surpassed six billion tokens per minute
Sherwin Wu · DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever · Oct 7, 2025 · at 44:33
OpenAI Platform lead Sherwin Wu reacts to host Swix's metric of OpenAI serving six billion tokens per minute.
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“We actually zoomed past that.”
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