Tokens per second
A clicker game. Start with a laptop CPU, grind to frontier-lab hardware, unlock bigger models as you go.
❂ Primer
Skip if you already know the theory; the interactive is right below.
A clicker. You generate tokens. With enough of them you buy GPUs; with enough GPUs you unlock bigger models. The laptop CPU manages a fifth of a token per second. The B200 clears twelve thousand. The gap is where the game lives.
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Wallet
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tokens
Lifetime
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tokens
Rate
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tok/s
— A B200 sits in a rack in Iowa. It has never loved anyone.
Hardware
- 15 tok
A laptop CPU×0
It runs. Slowly. · +0.2 tok/s
- 200 tok
NVIDIA T4×0
Serviceable. Cheap. · +3.0 tok/s
- 4.0K tok
NVIDIA A100×0
Workhorse of the mid-2020s. · +50 tok/s
- 80.0K tok
NVIDIA H100×0
Now we're cooking. · +800 tok/s
- 1.50M tok
NVIDIA B200×0
The frontier-lab tier. · +12.0K tok/s
Models — unlock by lifetime tokens
Next unlock: GPT-4 at 10.0K lifetime tokens (10.0K to go)
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⁂ Notes from the bench
What to watch for, why it matters, and the one thing that usually surprises people.
The shape of it
Each tick is 100ms. Your tokens-per-second is (count × rate) summed across every hardware you own. Prices rise exponentially per unit bought — standard clicker math — so the next tier is always just barely out of reach.
Wallet tokens are spendable. Lifetime tokens never decrease; they're the leaderboard score and the gate for unlocking model tiers. Resetting preserves lifetime. Nothing is lost.
Three shapes you'll see
The first GPU changes everything. Clicking to 10K is a grind. A single T4 pays itself back in a few minutes and the rest of the early game is just remembering to click Buy.
Offline earnings exist and they're capped at 8h.Come back a day later and you still get 8 hours of passive output — enough to matter, not enough to make idling forever the strategy.
Leaderboard is total lifetime tokens. Not current wallet. Not current rate. Spending tokens on hardware doesn't hurt your rank; it accelerates it. Reset if the grind gets stale — lifetime survives.
In a line
An idle/clicker built around generating tokens. Hardware scales exponentially, model tiers unlock on lifetime milestones, and the leaderboard is opt-in by GitHub handle.
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AI or human?
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Context Tetris
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