AI Driving Simulator Demo Costs Over $1,000 a Day to Run

Summary

Easy Fox, the developer of Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, says its demo is costing more than $1,000 per day in AI services after the number of players grew by more than twentyfold. The comic driving simulation places an LLM chatbot behind the wheel as the player coaches a virtual sister through conversation and spoken commands such as turning left. The demo currently uses an OpenAI model, while Easy Fox plans to use Gemini for the full release. The developer says the cost is driven by the volume of players rather than unusually high spending by each individual, with FRVR reporting about 450 concurrent players. Easy Fox has taken out a bank loan to keep the demo running and warns that financial pressure could force an earlier closure, although no decision has been made. The studio plans to include expected AI usage in the game’s purchase price and says players will not pay separately for tokens. It is also investigating local models for players with sufficiently capable GPUs, though that would reach only part of the audience. The game’s current problems include artificial-sounding dialogue and incorrect command execution. Easy Fox is targeting a January release and will then face the longer-term challenge of making unpredictable token costs financially sustainable.