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title: "Chip Malt (@chip-malt)"
description: "Rank #1600 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/chip-malt
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Chip Malt (@chip-malt)

Rank #1600 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/chip-malt

## Standing

- Rank: #1600 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 5.59B all time
- Cost: $4557.37 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 422
- Tracking: 2026-08-07 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 | 20.7M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $888.43 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-08

## Milestones

- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 70
- Busiest day: 2026-10-13 at 309.7M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 3.39B | $2607.96 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 1.79B | $1712.84 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 129.8M | $46.70 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 115.7M | $109.84 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 88.6M | $52.79 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 49.0M | $8.99 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 38.4M | $18.22 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 25.8K | $0.02 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 38.9K
- Cached input: 5.41B
- Cache write 5m: 28.1M
- Cache write 1h: 139.3M
- Output: 17.0M
- Reasoning output: 5.5M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/chip-malt