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title: "Benjamin Garcia (@bengarcia)"
description: "Rank #29 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/bengarcia
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Benjamin Garcia (@bengarcia)

Rank #29 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/bengarcia

## Standing

- Rank: #29 of 2505
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 169.20B all time
- Cost: $108175.42 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 12555
- Tracking: 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-26

## Links

- Site: https://bengarcia.dev

## 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 | 7.5 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 15.0M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 11.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1129.32 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **day-one**, earned 2026-09-07
- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-07
- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 2 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 85
- Busiest day: 2026-10-02 at 11.99B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 99.61B | $44735.11 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 16.58B | $17258.18 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 15.02B | $10630.66 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 9.36B | $14587.50 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 9.02B | $1693.44 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 8.65B | $12254.98 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 8.60B | $6500.74 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 1.22B | $50.06 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 974.7M
- Cached input: 163.13B
- Cache write 5m: 3.79B
- Cache write 1h: 797.6M
- Output: 513.6M
- Reasoning output: 181.2M

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