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title: "Basal John (@basal-john)"
description: "Rank #1093 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/basal-john
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Basal John (@basal-john)

Rank #1093 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/basal-john

## Standing

- Rank: #1093 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 12.50B all time
- Cost: $8772.96 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 4897
- Tracking: 2026-07-28 to 2026-09-23

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

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 1.6M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $2294.38 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **day-one**, earned 2026-09-12
- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-12
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-12
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-12
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-12

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 55
- Busiest day: 2026-08-17 at 645.7M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 8.08B | $6785.24 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-luna | 1.83B | $55.48 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.69B | $972.95 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 233.7M | $161.37 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 151.0M | $416.69 |
| codex | gpt-5.5 | 109.3M | $25.30 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 101.6M | $78.15 |
| cursor | default | 88.3M | $53.94 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 91.8M
- Cached input: 12.04B
- Cache write 5m: 89.4M
- Cache write 1h: 221.5M
- Output: 58.9M
- Reasoning output: 17.3M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/basal-john