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title: "Brian Taylor (@btay)"
description: "Rank #1096 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/btay
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Brian Taylor (@btay)

Rank #1096 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/btay

## Standing

- Rank: #1096 of 2498
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 12.43B all time
- Cost: $11162.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1656
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 to 2026-10-23

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Plant Manager 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 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 4.0M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 10.0 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $58.09 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, 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
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 2 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 84
- Busiest day: 2026-09-19 at 473.3M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 8.38B | $6805.28 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 1.81B | $883.19 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 924.7M | $1232.58 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 643.1M | $1353.28 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 446.5M | $700.35 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 124.5M | $112.68 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 36.7M | $10.00 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 25.9M | $45.37 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 30.5M
- Cached input: 12.04B
- Cache write 5m: 28.9M
- Cache write 1h: 258.4M
- Output: 66.2M
- Reasoning output: 22.1M

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