---
title: "Dave Yen (@dave)"
description: "Rank #2147 of 2500 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/dave
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Dave Yen (@dave)

Rank #2147 of 2500 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/dave

## Standing

- Rank: #2147 of 2500
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 1.43B all time
- Cost: $1504.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 190
- Tracking: 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-22

## 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 | 3.6M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 2.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 15 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $18.39 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **day-one**, earned 2026-09-09
- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, earned 2026-09-09
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-09
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-09

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 45
- Busiest day: 2026-09-23 at 121.9M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 434.6M | $390.91 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 366.8M | $568.44 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 340.9M | $199.32 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 215.2M | $293.17 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 63.6M | $45.85 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 6.3M | $6.32 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 644.8K | $0.65 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 107.5K | $0.06 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 1.8M
- Cached input: 1.38B
- Cache write 5m: 5.4M
- Cache write 1h: 34.5M
- Output: 5.1M
- Reasoning output: 775.4K

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