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title: "Alex Matheson (@alexkev)"
description: "Rank #1942 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/alexkev
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Alex Matheson (@alexkev)

Rank #1942 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/alexkev

## Standing

- Rank: #1942 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 2.87B all time
- Cost: $1959.97 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 239
- Tracking: 2026-08-19 to 2026-09-27

## 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 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 11.6M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 23 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $136.02 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-17
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-17

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 31
- Busiest day: 2026-09-22 at 199.3M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 2.46B | $1795.70 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 213.6M | $154.06 |
| opencode | callstack/Apex | 141.2M | $5.44 |
| opencode | mimo-v2.5-free | 49.4M | $1.28 |
| codex | gpt-5.5 | 4.1M | $1.12 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 3.2M | $2.14 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 190.2K | $0.23 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 15.4M
- Cached input: 2.80B
- Cache write 5m: 3.2M
- Cache write 1h: 41.5M
- Output: 8.8M
- Reasoning output: 3.5M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/alexkev