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title: "Ben Laurenson (@benlaurenson)"
description: "Rank #98 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 3."
canonical: https://paradev.com/benlaurenson
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Ben Laurenson (@benlaurenson)

Rank #98 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 3.

URL: https://paradev.com/benlaurenson

## Standing

- Rank: #98 of 2501
- Tier: Plant Manager
- Tokens: 96.34B all time
- Cost: $58505.11 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 3694
- Tracking: 2026-08-01 to 2026-10-22

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Henry Ford 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 | 3.3 | 6.2 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 36.4M | 27.9M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 56.0 | 7.5 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 26 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $100.46 | <= $81.72 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **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: 81
- Busiest day: 2026-10-16 at 4.68B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 50.88B | $23021.71 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 28.09B | $19478.59 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 7.26B | $10302.82 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 3.85B | $2979.56 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 3.16B | $715.14 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 1.96B | $1408.40 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 844.5M | $274.82 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 161.0M | $232.43 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 92.2M
- Cached input: 94.41B
- Cache write 5m: 787.6M
- Cache write 1h: 818.0M
- Output: 229.5M
- Reasoning output: 80.9M

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