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title: "Andy Grüning (@andygruening)"
description: "Rank #2106 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/andygruening
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Andy Grüning (@andygruening)

Rank #2106 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/andygruening

## Standing

- Rank: #2106 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 1.69B all time
- Cost: $436.94 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 832
- Tracking: 2026-07-31 to 2026-09-12

## 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 | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 2.2M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 3.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $20.85 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 100
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 41
- Busiest day: 2026-08-30 at 146.4M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-5.5 | 1.60B | $397.69 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 49.6M | $2.81 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 28.1M | $28.60 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 15.1M | $5.28 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 4.7M | $2.47 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-luna | 801.7K | $0.09 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 96.6M
- Cached input: 1.59B
- Cache write 5m: 180.7K
- Cache write 1h: 52.8K
- Output: 10.9M
- Reasoning output: 3.8M

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