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title: "Christian Ekstrand (Youcruit) (@christianekstrand)"
description: "Rank #108 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/christianekstrand
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Christian Ekstrand (Youcruit) (@christianekstrand)

Rank #108 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/christianekstrand

## Standing

- Rank: #108 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 92.51B all time
- Cost: $63789.25 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 10455
- Tracking: 2026-08-06 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 | 2.8 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 5.7M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 3.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $625.45 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 76
- Busiest day: 2026-09-08 at 9.56B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 47.09B | $34916.62 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 24.11B | $10086.73 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 13.63B | $6750.47 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 4.16B | $7575.04 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.70B | $3770.04 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 1.35B | $572.08 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 384.0M | $65.35 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 63.8M | $11.38 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 3.4M
- Cached input: 89.76B
- Cache write 5m: 1.58B
- Cache write 1h: 860.5M
- Output: 312.6M
- Reasoning output: 112.3M

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