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title: "Alex Sparkes (@alex-sparkes)"
description: "Rank #1925 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/alex-sparkes
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Alex Sparkes (@alex-sparkes)

Rank #1925 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/alex-sparkes

## Standing

- Rank: #1925 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 3.04B all time
- Cost: $1225.29 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 262
- Tracking: 2026-08-02 to 2026-10-21

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Operator needs a higher combined score, and cost also caps the tier on its own.
Scored on 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 8.0M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 24 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-08

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 100
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 61
- Busiest day: 2026-09-18 at 240.2M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.66B | $546.03 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 731.4M | $221.08 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 399.9M | $293.84 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 243.3M | $164.26 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 83.2K | $0.08 |
| codex | unknown | 0 | $0.00 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 69.7K
- Cached input: 2.98B
- Cache write 5m: 8.5M
- Cache write 1h: 38.1M
- Output: 8.4M
- Reasoning output: 3.0M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/alex-sparkes