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title: "Brandon Zalcman (@brandon-zalcman)"
description: "Rank #2290 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/brandon-zalcman
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Brandon Zalcman (@brandon-zalcman)

Rank #2290 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/brandon-zalcman

## Standing

- Rank: #2290 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 654.5M all time
- Cost: $294.86 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 79
- Tracking: 2026-10-09 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 | 4.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 7.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 15 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $18.43 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Milestones

- spend: 100
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 14
- Busiest day: 2026-10-16 at 172.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 648.3M | $288.10 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 2.7M | $0.77 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.0M | $5.12 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 1.4M | $0.88 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 159.9K
- Cached input: 637.5M
- Cache write 5m: 3.5M
- Cache write 1h: 9.8M
- Output: 3.5M
- Reasoning output: 719.8K

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/brandon-zalcman