ccusage for codex tells me the medium feature I prompted in codex, with a $200 subscription, running for 72 hours and still not delivering full result would have cost ~ $2200 at API rates.

I also misconfigured something in my agent's configuration and a simple web tool request (maybe 4 turns) through OR went to GPT-5.5 accidentally and that cost me ~$0.4.

I have no idea how any business can afford API rates without having a mindset of casually setting money on fire.