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title: "Aman Nigam (@aman-nigam)"
description: "Rank #2162 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/aman-nigam
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Aman Nigam (@aman-nigam)

Rank #2162 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/aman-nigam

## Standing

- Rank: #2162 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 1.38B all time
- Cost: $469.47 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 138
- Tracking: 2026-08-11 to 2026-10-26

## 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 | 7.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 16 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $8.34 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, earned 2026-09-08
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-08

## Milestones

- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 47
- Busiest day: 2026-09-23 at 219.0M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 827.2M | $233.72 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 277.1M | $89.32 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-4-6 | 209.0M | $133.39 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 69.1M | $12.93 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 160.3K | $0.12 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 19.5K
- Cached input: 1.35B
- Cache write 5m: 1.3M
- Cache write 1h: 27.8M
- Output: 5.4M
- Reasoning output: 2.1M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/aman-nigam