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OpenAI — Monthly API Calls: 260 billion

Verdictpartial75%
1 check · 7/27/2026

1 → partial

Our claim

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Subject
OpenAI
Property
Monthly API Calls
Value
260 billion
As Of
October 2025
Notes
Approximate monthly API calls derived from Sam Altman's October 2025 disclosure of 6B tokens per minute on the API, up 20x over two years. At 6B tokens/min and ~1,000 tokens per call average, this implies roughly 8.6T tokens/day processed.

Source evidence

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partial75%primaryHaiku 4.5 · 7/27/2026

NoteThe source confirms the key input data point (6B tokens/min as of October 2025) that the claim uses to derive the 260B monthly API calls figure. However, the source does NOT directly state or confirm the derived calculation of 260 billion monthly API calls. The claim performs a mathematical derivation: 6B tokens/min ÷ ~1,000 tokens/call = ~6M calls/min, then scales to monthly (~260B calls). While the source provides the raw metric (6B tokens/min), it does not verify the intermediate assumptions (1,000 tokens per call average) or the final derived figure (260B monthly calls). The calculation appears reasonable but is not explicitly confirmed by the source. This is 'partial' because the foundational metric is confirmed, but the derived conclusion is not independently verified in the source text.

Case № f_DJyrjvvvIgFiled 7/27/2026Confidence 75%
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