---
title: "Cole Mechelke (@cole-mechelke)"
description: "Rank #1938 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/cole-mechelke
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Cole Mechelke (@cole-mechelke)

Rank #1938 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/cole-mechelke

## Standing

- Rank: #1938 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 2.94B all time
- Cost: $3035.87 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 464
- Tracking: 2026-08-20 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 | 5.9M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 24 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $180.71 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-18

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 59
- Busiest day: 2026-10-02 at 289.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 1.43B | $2005.09 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 734.3M | $664.61 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 261.7M | $109.76 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 147.8M | $61.87 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 130.6M | $28.23 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 116.4M | $110.89 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 65.8M | $1.62 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 24.9M | $8.88 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 53.2M
- Cached input: 2.83B
- Cache write 5m: 17.1M
- Cache write 1h: 26.2M
- Output: 11.0M
- Reasoning output: 3.2M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/cole-mechelke