Matt Barrie
CEO, Freelancer.com
aka Matt Berry
“I went and looked at my open router token usage for that day, and it came in at on one particular day last week, and it came in at 4 billion tokens in one day. And that's 4 billion with a B. ... That cost me about 1300 US dollars.”
“the amount of tokens that on a per person basis or per enterprise basis that are going to be consumed are going to go through the absolute roof. ... I'm not going to pay the prices that what the frontier models want to charge.”
Matt Barrie
One-line summary: Freelancer.com CEO; tracked for operator-level agentic-AI token-burn and open-source/on-prem routing claims that test enterprise token budgeting.
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On enterprise-token-budgeting, agentic-ai-seat-erosion-to-saas-rerate:
"I went and looked at my open router token usage for that day, and it came in at on one particular day last week, and it came in at 4 billion tokens in one day. And that's 4 billion with a B. ... That cost me about 1300 US dollars." — 2026-09-17-podcast-macro-voices-macrovoices-549-matt-barrie-ai-gent-provocateur (2026-09-10)
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On enterprise-token-budgeting:
"the amount of tokens that on a per person basis or per enterprise basis that are going to be consumed are going to go through the absolute roof. ... I'm not going to pay the prices that what the frontier models want to charge." — 2026-09-17-podcast-macro-voices-macrovoices-549-matt-barrie-ai-gent-provocateur (2026-09-10)
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