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title: "Chai Gangavarapu (@chaig15)"
description: "Rank #1796 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/chaig15
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Chai Gangavarapu (@chaig15)

Rank #1796 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/chaig15

## Standing

- Rank: #1796 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 3.95B all time
- Cost: $2559.39 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 446
- Tracking: 2026-08-18 to 2026-10-15

## 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 | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 10.8M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 22 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $448.96 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-14
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-14

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 43
- Busiest day: 2026-09-14 at 342.9M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cursor | claude-opus-5-5-high | 1.19B | $775.76 |
| cursor | cursor-grok-4.6-xhigh | 796.6M | $512.46 |
| cursor | claude-sonnet-5-5-high | 413.2M | $195.17 |
| cursor | cursor-grok-4.6-high | 201.6M | $133.66 |
| cursor | claude-fable-5-1-thinking-xhigh | 154.5M | $172.38 |
| cursor | grok-bot-default | 152.4M | $208.69 |
| claude | zai-org/GLM-5.3 | 151.1M | $18.42 |
| cursor | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 132.0M | $76.08 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 128.5M
- Cached input: 3.62B
- Cache write 5m: 184.3M
- Cache write 1h: 1.2M
- Output: 14.4M
- Reasoning output: 222.4K

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/chaig15